Award-winning poet, author, and lyricist Rayma Ramana will present an online workshop focusing on the intersection of healing and poetry for adults. The workshop is free, but registration is required. Click here to register. This event is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective Visiting Writer Series. Rayma Ramana is an award-winning American author, poet and lyricist. She was born, raised and currently resides in New York. Ramana won the NY Knicks Poetry Slam, which awarded her a full-tuition scholarship to St. John’s University. Soon after, she became the Youth Poet Laureate of NYC. She has since performed at events such as the US Open, Tribeca Film Festival, TV One’s Verses and Flow, Pharrell’s Adidas campaign, SONY TV’s Asian Women in the Arts Awards, the Immigrant Gala, the Grand Slam Finals at the Apollo Theater, Celebrate Brooklyn!, the Source magazine's SOURCE360 Festival and many more. Her work can be found on the Poetry Foundation and Academy of American Poets websites and in Seventh Wave and the Southampton Review. Ramana published her first collection of poems through Penmanship Books, with a release at Lincoln Center. In addition to performing and writing, she has also worked as an educator and mentor for young poets and young women. She recently received her MFA in creative writing from the New School. Ramana’s current endeavors include running a blog through Medium and working as a librettist for an operetta film. Her hope is to remain a student of wonder and to explore truth sincerely through her work and her life.
Award-winning poet, author, and lyricist Rayma Ramana will present an online workshop focusing on the intersection of healing and poetry for adults. The workshop is free, but registration is required. Click here to register. This event is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective Visiting Writer Series. Rayma Ramana is an award-winning American author, poet and lyricist. She was born, raised and currently resides in New York. Ramana won the NY Knicks Poetry Slam, which awarded her a full-tuition scholarship to St. John’s University. Soon after, she became the Youth Poet Laureate of NYC. She has since performed at events such as the US Open, Tribeca Film Festival, TV One’s Verses and Flow, Pharrell’s Adidas campaign, SONY TV’s Asian Women in the Arts Awards, the Immigrant Gala, the Grand Slam Finals at the Apollo Theater, Celebrate Brooklyn!, the Source magazine's SOURCE360 Festival and many more. Her work can be found on the Poetry Foundation and Academy of American Poets websites and in Seventh Wave and the Southampton Review. Ramana published her first collection of poems through Penmanship Books, with a release at Lincoln Center. In addition to performing and writing, she has also worked as an educator and mentor for young poets and young women. She recently received her MFA in creative writing from the New School. Ramana’s current endeavors include running a blog through Medium and working as a librettist for an operetta film. Her hope is to remain a student of wonder and to explore truth sincerely through her work and her life.
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POSTPONED Writing workshop with Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre (Read More)
Due to unforseen circumstances, this event is being postponed. Any future date will be included in a new calendar event. Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre will lead a free writing workshop at the Gere Branch Library. Space is limited. Register to secure your spot: https://bit.ly/nwc-register. This workshop is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective’s Visiting Writers Series. Kyle Tran Myhre (aka Guante) is a poet and activist whose work explores the relationships between narrative, power, and resistance. He’s performed at the United Nations, contributed to a Grammy-winning album, been a member of two National Poetry Slam championship teams, and visited countless colleges, conferences, and festivals, using spoken word and storytelling as doorways into critical dialogue.
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Young Writer’s Studio with Christina Diaz Gonzalez (Read More)
This workshop with bilingual storyteller Christina Diaz Gonzalez is aimed at young writers who enjoy graphic novels and stories about fitting in and standing out. Her graphic novel, Invisible, is a nominee for the Nebraska Golden Sower Award for the 2024/25 school year. The workshop is for ages 8 through 19. This event is free and participants do not need a library card. See the event page for more information. Christina Diaz Gonzalez is the Edgar® award-winning and USA TODAY best-selling author of several novels including The Red Umbrella, A Thunderous Whisper, Moving Target, Concealed, Invisible: A Graphic Novel, and The Bluest Sky. Her books have received numerous awards including the International Latino Book Award Gold Medal and have also been designated as an American Library Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults selection, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection, and as an International Reading Association’s Teachers’ Choice book. Christina currently lives in Miami, Florida with her family and a dog that can open doors.
Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus Huascar Medina will lead a free writing workshop (recommended for ages 16+) for anyone from seasoned to beginning writers. Space is limited to 30 participants. Register to secure your spot: https://bit.ly/nwc-register. This workshop is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective’s Visiting Writers Series. Kansas Poet Laureate emeritus (2019-2022) and Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, Huascar Medina has authored two books of poetry: Un Mango Grows in Kansas and How to Hang the Moon. He is the Lit editor for seveneightfive magazine, a staff editor at South Broadway Press in Denver, CO, an op-ed writer at Kansas Reflector, a founding member and former Chair of TopekaUnited.org, the founder of wordssavelives.org, and co-founder of latinidad.us. Huascar was born in Killeen, TX, and has lived artfully in Kansas for over two decades. He considers himself a special kind of Kansan—a helianthus. Huascar took roots in Kansas, grew there, and blossomed. As a second-generation immigrant living in the Heartland, Huascar pushes the boundaries between identity and location, focusing on cultural empathy, social cohesion, class structures, first-generation trauma, minority mental health, and internalized diasporic longing and belonging. His work has appeared in the Flint Hills Review, Gasconade Review, Green Mountains Review, Kansas Magazine, Latino Book Review, The New York Times, and elsewhere.
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Writing Workshop with Stephanie Pacheco (Read More)
National Youth Poet Laureate Stephanie Pacheco will lead a free writing workshop (recommended for ages 16+.) This workshop is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective’s Visiting Writers Series. Space is limited to 30 participants. Register now to secure your spot. Stephanie Pacheco is the 2024-2025 National Youth Poet Laureate and served as the 2023 NYC Youth Poet Laureate and the inaugural New York State Youth Poet Laureate. She was also a member of Urban Word’s 2022 Youth Slam Team. Hailing from The Bronx, she has been a leading organizer and strategist with several activist organizations, including the Healing Centered Schools Task Force, working to mobilize youth across the city against educational injustice. She is a recipient of the 2021 Princeton Prize in Race Relations. Her advocacy and poetry have been highlighted by The New York Times, The Today Show, NPR, The Daily News, CBS, and other publications. She has spoken and performed in notable venues such as The Schomburg Center, The Apollo Theater, The Barclays Center, The New York Public Library, TedXCUNY, and more.
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Visiting Writer Series: Workshop with George Abraham (Read More)
This writing workshop will be hosted by George Abraham (they/he/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, performance artist, and writer from Jacksonville, FL. There is a suggested donation of $10 for the workshop, but no one will be turned away. George Abraham's debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award and the Big Other Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry. He is also the author of the chapbooks al youm (The Atlas Review, 2017), and the specimen's apology (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019). He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, The Arab American National Museum, The Boston Foundation, the National Performance Network, and the MAP Fund, and more. Their writing has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Guernica, The Baffler, The Paris Review, Mizna, and many other journals and anthologies. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard University, Abraham has taught at Emerson College, and is currently based in Chicago, IL, where he is a Litowitz MFA+MA student in Poetry at Northwestern University. He is currently Executive Editor of the Whiting Award winning journal Mizna. Their collaborations include co-editing a Palestinian poetry anthology with Noor Hindi (Haymarket Books, 2025), and a performance art project titled EVE with Fargo Tbakhi.
Spring semester 2024 workshops for Nebraska Warrior Writers. Meeting in person in Lincoln. Zoom participation available. February 10 February 24 – Guest Speaker: Carolina Hotchandani March 9 – Guest Speaker: Kim Louise Whiteside March 23 – Guest Speaker: Karla Hernandez-Torrez April 6 – Guest Speaker: Steve Langan April 13 – Guest Speaker: Maggie Christensen May 4 – Guest Speaker: Ted Wheeler May 11 (at Larksong) – Guest Speaker: Wendy Weitzel
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Creative Writing Workshop with Gary Soto (Read More)
Gary Soto is known for a body of work that deals with the realities of growing up in Mexican American communities. In poems, novels, short stories, plays and over two dozen books for young people, Soto recreates the world of the barrio, the urban, Spanish-speaking neighborhood where he was raised, bringing the sights, sounds and smells vividly to life within the pages of his books. Soto’s poetry and prose focus on everyday experiences while evoking the harsh forces that often shape life for Chicanos, including racism, poverty, and crime. (Excerpt taken from the Poetry Foundation.) Gary Soto's workshop is part of the Touring Artist Series of the All Writes Reserved Youth Poetry Festival. Ticket required.
