tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68414422211799438972024-03-12T23:04:51.970-05:00Brownville WritersWorkshops, Seminars, and Readings in Brownville, NEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6841442221179943897.post-79948727881679123672012-02-26T10:34:00.003-06:002012-04-10T15:41:53.693-05:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">features the <span style="color: blue;"><i>River of Words </i>Workshop</span>, with <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sherrie Flick </span></i>teaching <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>and</i></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the 1 pm Sunday <span style="color: red;">Free Range Reading</span> at the Lyceum Bookstore, 1pm til 4pm, with <span style="color: red;">12 writers from around Nebraska:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so far we have signed up to read on Sunday: <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Barbara Salvatore, Liz Kay, Marge Saiser, Kelly Madigan, Art Homer, J V Brummels, Karen Shoemaker, Amy Plettner, Lisa Sandlin, Denise Banker, Richard Wyatt, and Todd Robinson</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> plus other events, detailed here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>The itinerary for the weekend includes:</b></span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">FRIDAY, APRIL 13</span><br /><span style="color: #660000;">Meet up at the River Inn, just follow the signs to where she's docked on the Missouri River, both Friday & Saturday nights the entertainment is free!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">5-7 PM Social Hour,</span><span style="color: #660000;"> Sponsored by The Merchants of Brownville.</span><br /><span style="color: #660000;">No cover charge. Cash Bar all evening and the popular band ‘to be announced’ asap. </span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">6-7 PM Dinner </span><span style="color: #660000;">featuring a variety of pastas, salads & breads. Dessert and coffee follow, $15. Dinner is provided for WWS Workshoppers.</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">7-9 PM Band</span><br /><span style="color: #660000;">Reservations encouraged, call Nora at 402-825-3992 or email nora.tallmon@gmail.com.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">SATURDAY, APRIL 14</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">9-11 AM Weekend Writers' Workshop First Session</span><span style="color: #660000;"> with Sherrie Flick. Breakfast is provided for WWS Workshoppers.</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lunch Break:</span><span style="color: #660000;"> Enjoy dining at the Lyceum or TJs Lounge! Visit our shops, winery & museums. Lunch is provided for WWS Workshoppers.</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">3-4 PM Come cruise the Missouri River </span><span style="color: #660000;">on the Spirit of Brownville, adults $14.95 PP, children 5 and under free.</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">4:30-6:30 PM Weekend Writers' Workshop: Session Two</span><span style="color: #660000;"> with Sherrie Flick. 6:30-8 PMPrivate Dinner for WWS Workshoppers.</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">8PM-10 PM FREE Evening Revelry at the Whiskey Run Creek Winery </span><span style="color: #660000;">featuring ‘to be announced’ asap </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">SUNDAY, APRIL 15</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">9:30-10:45 AM Weekend Writers' Workshop Open House </span><span style="color: #660000;">at the Village Theatre Residence, sponsored by Gypsy Jack’s Antiques & Collectibles. Come share a bite and a enjoy the readings at this free open house, see what the writers produced during this remarkable weekend! Breakfast is provided for WWS Workshoppers.</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lunch Break: Enjoy dining at the Lyceum! </span><span style="color: #660000;">Visit our museums and shops.</span><br /><span style="color: #660000;">1-4 PM at the Lyceum Bookstore, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Free Range Readings </span><span style="color: #660000;">hosted by Rex Walton & Jane Smith. Writers include: </span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Denise Banker<br />Todd Robinson<br />Barbara Salvatore<br />Liz Kay<br />Marge Saiser<br />Kelly Madigan<br />Art Homer<br />J V Brummels<br />Rich Wyatt</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Karen Shoemaker<br />Amy Plettner<br />Lisa Sandlin</span><br /><span style="color: #660000;">MORE TO BE ADDED SOON, biographies will be posted soon!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>River of Words Workshop:</b></span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sherrie Flick </span>will be this year's workshop instructor for the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Writers' Workshop, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>River of Words</i></span>, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April 13, 14 and 15, 2012, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Prepare to sweep away any blocks you may have experienced as we spend the weekend generating new work. Guided by the Missouri River to our east, we will get in the flow and use a variety of tools and techniques to banish the inner critic and write. Our goal will be to head home with many pages of fresh material, newly forged connections with our fellow writers, and a few new strategies to add to our writing practice.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/flick.jpg" /><br /><br />Sherrie Flick published her debut novel, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Reconsidering Happiness, </i></span>with University of Nebraska Press as part of their Flyover Fiction series in September 2009. She is also author of the award-winning flash fiction chapbook <span style="color: #990000;"><i>I Call This Flirting </i></span>(Flume Press, 2004). Anthologies include Sudden Fiction (Norton, 2007) and Flash Fiction Forward (Norton, 2006), as well as Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Minuscule Fiction (MAMMOTH Press, 2003) and You Have Time for This (Ooligan Press, 2007).<br /><br />Her essay “Flash in a Pan” appears in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, 2009. Her fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Quarterly West, Puerto del Sol, Quick Fiction, and Freight Stories, among others.<br /><br />Flick has received artist residencies from the Ucross Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference. In 2005, she was honored as one of Pittsburgh’s “40 under 40.” In 2007, she received an individual artist fellowship from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She teaches graduate students at Chatham University and undergraduate classes at University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Sherrie has also taught interdisciplinary writing workshops in many arts institutions, including Carnegie Museum of Art and Silver Eye Center for Photography.<br /><br />She often helps curate literary programs in alternative settings, such as Wood-Fired Words with UnSmoke Systems in Braddock, Pa. and isReads Pittsburgh. Flick is artistic director and co-founder of the Gist Street Reading Series, now in its tenth year. Gist Street is a literary reading series focusing on national and local poets and prose writers publishing their first or second books. She is also a freelance writer and editor.<br />She lives in Pittsburgh, where she likes to garden and cook.<br /><br />The Wine, Writers and Song Weekend is a weekend writing workshop for 15 participants. <span style="color: red;">There are 13 residential openings for $150 and two non-residential openings for $80.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NOTE: There is an online <a href="http://www.brownville-ne.com/main.taf?p=1,3">PayPal option</a><br /><br />The Residential Workshop includes: <span style="color: #cc0000;">2 nights' lodging at the Brownville Village Theatre Actors' Residence, meals, writing sessions, the opportunity to read your work to a supportive audience at the Writers' Workshop Open House on Sunday morning, evening events, and the chance to meet and hang out with some really great people. The Workshop Instructor will spend the weekend at the Brownville Village Theatre's Actors' Residence as well.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Residential Workshop participation</span> is limited to <span style="color: red;">13</span>. Cost for this package is <span style="color: red;">$150</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">The Non-Residential Workshop</span> includes all the above except breakfast and lodging. There are <span style="color: red;">2 </span>Non-Residential Workshop spots. Cost for this package is <span style="color: red;">$80</span> including lunch and dinner.<br /><br />Registration for the Weekend Writers' Workshop – both packages – is taken on a first-come, first-serve basis <span style="color: red;">after January 1, 2012.</span><br /><br />If you're interested in participating – or if you have questions – please contact <span style="color: red;">Nora Tallmon, WWS Weekend Director, at nora.tallmon@gmail.com or call her at 402-825-3992.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">This year the 'festival' has been converted to a weekend that focuses on you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">There will still be the popular Free Range Readings on Sunday--hosted by Rex Walton and Jane Smith</span>, the Workshop open house on Sunday and evening get-togethers. The large roster of events and author presentations has been changed to one that will allow you to stay focused on your writing and rejuvenate your writer's spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> plus other events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sherrie Flick </span>will be this year's workshop instructor for the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Writers' Workshop, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>River of Words</i></span>, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April 13, 14 and 15, 2012, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Prepare to sweep away any blocks you may have experienced as we spend the weekend generating new work. Guided by the Missouri River to our east, we will get in the flow and use a variety of tools and techniques to banish the inner critic and write. Our goal will be to head home with many pages of fresh material, newly forged connections with our fellow writers, and a few new strategies to add to our writing practice.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/flick.jpg" /><br /><br />Sherrie Flick published her debut novel, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Reconsidering Happiness, </i></span>with University of Nebraska Press as part of their Flyover Fiction series in September 2009. She is also author of the award-winning flash fiction chapbook <span style="color: #990000;"><i>I Call This Flirting </i></span>(Flume Press, 2004). Anthologies include Sudden Fiction (Norton, 2007) and Flash Fiction Forward (Norton, 2006), as well as Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Minuscule Fiction (MAMMOTH Press, 2003) and You Have Time for This (Ooligan Press, 2007). <br /><br />Her essay “Flash in a Pan” appears in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, 2009. Her fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Quarterly West, Puerto del Sol, Quick Fiction, and Freight Stories, among others.<br /><br />Flick has received artist residencies from the Ucross Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference. In 2005, she was honored as one of Pittsburgh’s “40 under 40.” In 2007, she received an individual artist fellowship from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She teaches graduate students at Chatham University and undergraduate classes at University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Sherrie has also taught interdisciplinary writing workshops in many arts institutions, including Carnegie Museum of Art and Silver Eye Center for Photography. <br /><br />She often helps curate literary programs in alternative settings, such as Wood-Fired Words with UnSmoke Systems in Braddock, Pa. and isReads Pittsburgh. Flick is artistic director and co-founder of the Gist Street Reading Series, now in its tenth year. Gist Street is a literary reading series focusing on national and local poets and prose writers publishing their first or second books. She is also a freelance writer and editor. <br />She lives in Pittsburgh, where she likes to garden and cook. <br /><br />The Wine, Writers and Song Weekend is a weekend writing workshop for 15 participants. <span style="color: red;">There are 13 residential openings for $150 and two non-residential openings for $80.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NOTE: There is an online <a href="http://www.brownville-ne.com/main.taf?p=1,3">PayPal option</a><br /><br />The Residential Workshop includes: <span style="color: #cc0000;">2 nights' lodging at the Brownville Village Theatre Actors' Residence, meals, writing sessions, the opportunity to read your work to a supportive audience at the Writers' Workshop Open House on Sunday morning, evening events, and the chance to meet and hang out with some really great people. The Workshop Instructor will spend the weekend at the Brownville Village Theatre's Actors' Residence as well.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Residential Workshop participation</span> is limited to <span style="color: red;">13</span>. Cost for this package is <span style="color: red;">$150</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">The Non-Residential Workshop</span> includes all the above except breakfast and lodging. There are <span style="color: red;">2 </span>Non-Residential Workshop spots. Cost for this package is <span style="color: red;">$80</span> including lunch and dinner.<br /><br />Registration for the Weekend Writers' Workshop – both packages – is taken on a first-come, first-serve basis <span style="color: red;">after January 1, 2012.</span><br /><br />If you're interested in participating – or if you have questions – please contact <span style="color: red;">Nora Tallmon, WWS Weekend Director, at nora.tallmon@gmail.com or call her at 402-825-3992.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">This year the 'festival' has been converted to a weekend that focuses on you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">There will still be the popular Free Range Readings on Sunday--hosted by Rex Walton and Jane Smith</span>, the Workshop open house on Sunday and evening get-togethers. The large roster of events and author presentations has been changed to one that will allow you to stay focused on your writing and rejuvenate your writer's spirit. </span> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6841442221179943897.post-19379710643067187852010-05-05T13:09:00.012-05:002011-02-12T16:21:19.429-06:00<div><div><div>Here is the print-out of the program, which is also on the link directly </div><div>below, on the Brownville city site -- </div><div>http://www.brownville-ne.com/main.taf?p=1,3</div><div><br /></div><div>Brownville's Wine Writers & Song 2011</div><div><br /></div><div>FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 15</div><div><br /></div><div>Meet up at the River Inn, just follow the signs to where she's docked on the </div><div>Missouri River.</div><div><br /></div><div>5-7 PM Social Hour from 5-7 PM</div><div>Cash Bar and the popular band Midwest Dilemma</div><div><br /></div><div>6-7 PM dinner featuring a variety of pastas, salads & breads. Dessert and </div><div>coffee follow.</div><div>Reservations required, call Nora at 402-825-3992 or email </div><div>nora.tallmon@gmail.com. OR</div><div>RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW ($15.75 PER PERSON)</div><div><br /></div><div>7:30-9 PM Entertainment by celebrated Comedian & Writer T. Marni Vos</div><div><br /></div><div>SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 16</div><div><br /></div><div>9 AM Bright & Early Guided Walk through the Furnas Arboretum with John </div><div>Lauber</div><div><br /></div><div>9-11 AM Weekend Writers' Workshop First Session with Amy Plettner</div><div>Pre-registration required, call Nora at 402-825-3992 or email </div><div>nora.tallmon@gmail.com.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ongoing Event: Schoolhouse Gallery Exhibition, TBA</div><div><br /></div><div>Childrens' Program</div><div><br /></div><div>10-10:45 AM in the Schoolhouse Gallery Music by Mike Mennard</div><div><br /></div><div>11-11:30 AM in the Schoolhouse Gallery Author Pippa White</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Nonfiction Program</div><div><br /></div><div>10-11 AM in the Lyceum Author Donald-Brian Johnson</div><div><br /></div><div>11 AM - NOON in the Lyceum Author Charlotte Endorf</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>SATURDAY AFTERNOON & EVENING</div><div><br /></div><div>1-2 PM come cruise the Missouri River, adults $9.95 PP, children 5 and under </div><div>free.</div><div><br /></div><div>2-3 PM in the Antiquarium, Author Nina Murray</div><div><br /></div><div>2:30-4 PM Songwriters' Roundtable in The Brownville Town Hall. A salon-type </div><div>conversation in which the songwriters discuss their writing process, play </div><div>snippets of music, and entertain questions from the audience, features Robin </div><div>Harrell & Emily Dunbar.</div><div><br /></div><div>3-4 PM in the Antiquarim, Author Sherrie Flick</div><div><br /></div><div>4:30-6 PM Weekend Writers' Workshop: Session Two</div><div><br /></div><div>Preregistration is required,call Nora at 402-825-3992 or email </div><div>nora.tallmon@gmail.com.</div><div><br /></div><div>Pairing Food & Wine Program</div><div>At Whiskey Run Creek Winery, second level,$8 per person, space is limited, </div><div>paid reservations are required,register online here, call Nora at </div><div>402-825-3992 or email nora.tallmon@gmail.com.</div><div>Vintner Ron Heskett and chef/authors Sean Carmichael and Maggie Pleskac will </div><div>team up to show participants which wines best complement which flavors. Each </div><div>chef will offer an appetizer to be paired with a Whiskey Run Creek Winery </div><div>wine. Sean & Maggie will sign copies of their cookbook, Dueling Chefs: A </div><div>Vegetarian & A Meat Lover Debate the Plate.</div><div><br /></div><div>Session 1: 4:30-6:00</div><div><br /></div><div>Session 2: 6:30-8:00</div><div><br /></div><div>The first half hour of each session will be a tour of the historic Whiskey </div><div>Run Creek cave.</div><div>RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW ($8.55 PER PERSON)</div><div>SESSION 1: 4:30-6:00 PM, 50 of 50 seats currently open.</div><div><br /></div><div>SESSION 2: 6:30-8:00 PM, 50 of 50 seats currently open.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>8-10 PM Evening Revelry featuring Burnt Biscuits at Whiskey Run Creek Winery</div><div><br /></div><div>SUNDAY, APRIL 17</div><div><br /></div><div>9:30-10:45 AM Weekend Writers' Workshop Open House at the Village Theatre </div><div>Residence</div><div><br /></div><div>11-11:30 AM Christopher James will present at Porridge Papers</div><div><br /></div><div>11:30 AM - NOON Kevin Oliver will present at his Bookbinding Shop</div><div><br /></div><div>1-4 PM at the Lyceum Bookstore, Free Range Readings hosted by Rex Walton and </div><div>featuring popular writers (TBA)</div><div><br /></div><div>Please consider supporting this worthwhile event, your contributions are tax </div><div>deductible!</div><div><br /></div><div>2011 Authors & Musicians</div><div><br /></div><div>Midwest Dilemma</div><div>A guitar, red trucker hat, folk songs, and an old Toyota wagon on open road. </div><div>Justin Lamoureux has been performing as Midwest Dilemma for nearly a decade. </div><div>Over hills, valleys, across high plains, mountains, forests, deserts, </div><div>rivers, oceans and destinations near and far to share his experiences and </div><div>stories of life in the Midwest. But there is nothing typical about Midwest </div><div>Dilemma.</div><div>Lamoureux recruited 23 musical collaborators for the debut release titled </div><div>Timelines & Tragedies in 2008. The revolving cast of characters fill out the </div><div>woodwind, brass, string, and percussion sections. Timelines & Tragedies is a </div><div>time line of family history. Tracing Lamoureux's ancestors to their days of </div><div>French Canadian fur trading, the Great Depression, the struggles of his </div><div>parents' generation with Vietnam, and eventually concluding with his life in </div><div>the Omaha.</div><div><br /></div><div>T. Marni Vos</div><div>T. Marni Vos is a clean and refreshing humorist. She is as funny as she is </div><div>inspiring. She became one of only seven women in 20 years to be a Finalist </div><div>in the prestigious San Francisco International Stand-up Comedy Competition, </div><div>where over 400 comics compete each year. She has performed on Life Time's </div><div>"Girls Night Out" and opened for Jay Leno at the Comedy and Magic Club in </div><div>Hermosa Beach. A former high school instructor in a stressful environment, </div><div>T. Marni Vos used humor and creativity to inspire and motivate students to </div><div>go beyond their potential. Through laughter and communication she continues </div><div>to educate people in all walks of life to meet their challenges with a light </div><div>heart and the echo of laughter.</div><div><br /></div><div>John Lauber</div><div>Curator, Furnas Arboretum 1991-2011. Lauber is a graduate of Nebraska </div><div>Wesleyan and holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Colorado, </div><div>Boulder. With his wife, Mary, founded Brownville Summer Music Festival in </div><div>1972, has been a resident of Brownville and Lincoln, Nebraska since that </div><div>time. Currently serves as promotion/marketing manager for the Brownville </div><div>Concert Series, and is sales representative for Whiskey Run Creek Vineyard </div><div>and Winery in Brownville.</div><div><br /></div><div>Amy Plettner</div><div>Amy Plettner is a student in the University of Nebraska MFA writing program. </div><div>Her poetry has appeared in the anthologies Nebraska Presence and Times of </div><div>Sorrow, Times of Grace. Other publications include Plains Song Review, Omaha </div><div>World-Herald's "Everyday Poetry" series, Nebraska Life, and Celebrate: A </div><div>Collection of Women’s Writing. She lives south of Denton with her family, </div><div>and enjoys bicycling, taking baths, and life in Nebraska.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mike Mennard</div><div>Mike Mennard has been performing throughout Nebraska, California, West </div><div>Virginia, Illinois, Oregon, and Montana since 2004. He has produced four </div><div>albums, Something’s Rotting in the Fridge, When Mother Goose Laid an Egg, </div><div>Night at the Whaler’s Inn, Pirates… do the Darnedest Things, and We've Got </div><div>It All In Nebraska. In 2010, he will release his first complete collection </div><div>of kids' poetry entitled, To the Ledge at the Edge of the Universe. “Mike is </div><div>a creative genius,” says Cindy Johnson of Hill Elementary School. “Few poets </div><div>and songwriters have so effectively captured what it is to be a kid. And few </div><div>have done so as compassionately and humorously as he has. He is a treasure.” </div><div>Mike lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, Michelle, and son, Ramsey. He </div><div>teaches English and Communication at Union College.</div><div><br /></div><div>Pippa White</div><div>Pippa White calls her One's Company Productions "part theatre, part </div><div>storytelling, part history." Audiences call them unique, captivating, and </div><div>touching. To date she has crisscrossed the country many times touring to </div><div>over twenty-five states, including California, New York, Connecticut, </div><div>Colorado, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Washington and Alaska. She has performed </div><div>at universities and colleges, conferences, performing arts centers, museums, </div><div>libraries, and festivals. The Director of Special Projects at the Iowa </div><div>Department of Cultural Affairs calls Pippa "the highest quality artist," and </div><div>the Kansas Storytelling Festival said her performance was "one of the high </div><div>points in our festival history." An audience member recently captured the </div><div>gist of Pippa's unique presentations when he said, "her performances are </div><div>entertainment wrapped in history intertwined with inspiration." Pippa has a </div><div>BA in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In addition to </div><div>performing, she offers workshops and residencies, and has been a teaching </div><div>artist with Nebraska Arts Council since 1990. She has received several </div><div>awards in recognition of her work, including two Individual Artist </div><div>Fellowship awards from the Nebraska Arts Council.</div><div><br /></div><div>Donald-Brian Johnson</div><div>Donald-Brian Johnson is co-author, with photographer Leslie Pina, of the </div><div>books Deco Décor; Higgins: Poetry in Glass; Higgins: Adventures in Glass; </div><div>Moss Lamps: Lighting the ‘50s; Whiting & Davis Purses: The Perfect Mesh; </div><div>Popular Purses: It’s In The Bag!, and Specs Appeal: Extravagant Eyewear of </div><div>the 1950s and 1960s; Additional Johnson/Pina collaborations include a </div><div>four-volume series on the American Art Deco giftware and lighting lines of </div><div>the Chase Brass & Copper Co: Chase Complete; 1930s Lighting: Deco & </div><div>Traditional by Chase; The Chase Catalogs: 1934 & 1935, and The Chase Era. </div><div>Their latest collaboration, Postwar Pop: Memorabilia of the Mid-Twentieth </div><div>Century is scheduled for a Spring, 2011 release. Working with Tim Holthaus </div><div>and Jim Petzold, Johnson also co-authored Ceramic Arts Studio: The Legacy of </div><div>Betty Harrington. All are published by Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Mr. Johnson </div><div>received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and Speech from </div><div>Northwestern University. Prior to his career as an author, he worked in the </div><div>Midwest as an award-winning theatre director, television/radio reporter, and </div><div>advertising writer.</div><div>In addition to his books on mid-twentieth century decorative arts, Johnson </div><div>has been a frequent seminar speaker for such groups as the Art Deco Society </div><div>of New York, the Ceramic Arts Studio Collectors Association, and the Whiting </div><div>& Davis Co. He is also a contributing writer for various design </div><div>publications, including The Old Times; Antiques & Collecting Magazine; </div><div>Antiques & Auction News and Paper & Advertising Collectors Marketplace. His </div><div>monthly column, “Smack Dab in the Middle: Design Trends of the Mid-Twentieth </div><div>Century” is syndicated throughout the United States. A native of Chatfield, </div><div>Minnesota, Mr. Johnson now lives in Omaha, Nebraska.</div><div><br /></div><div>Charlotte Endorf</div><div>Charlotte Endorf traveled over 15,000 miles to research this often-ignored </div><div>slice of American history, and in the process she discovered that she, too, </div><div>was a descendent of an actual Orphan Train rider. She keeps the Orphan Train </div><div>history alive with nationwide radio shows and through her website, </div><div>www.unsungneighbors.com. Endorf travels her home state as one of the select </div><div>four “high use” speakers on the Nebraska Humanities Council Speakers Bureau, </div><div>and dressed in period attire, brings history to life, dressed in period </div><div>attire, for schools, museums, festivals, nursing facilities, senior centers, </div><div>and libraries. Also by Endorf: After the Rain, Oh the Beautiful Rainbow; </div><div>Plains Bound: Fragile Cargo; By Train They Came (Volumes 1 and 2); Unsung </div><div>Neighbors; and They Call Me Teddy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nina Shevchuk–Murray</div><div>Has a Master of Arts in English with Creative Thesis. She received a </div><div>Nebraska Book Award, Nebraska Humanities Council, for The Big-Empty, An </div><div>Anthology of Nebraska Non-Fiction. Her other presentations include “Walt </div><div>Whitman in Russia: A Love Affair in Three Acts” and “A Russian, A Frenchman, </div><div>And an Englishman are Stranded on a Desert Island: Narrative Analysis and </div><div>Translatability of Humor,” “Yuri Andrukhovych’s ‘Letters to Ukraine’: </div><div>Post-colonial Literary Strategies” and “Ukrainian Poetry: Translating the </div><div>Lesbian, or Lesbian Translating?” She is also a translator, essayist and </div><div>poet.</div><div><br /></div><div>Robin Harrell</div><div>Robin Harrell has taught guitar for 26 years. In 2004, she was awarded </div><div>Hastings' YWCA Tribute to Women Award for her teaching and musical mentoring </div><div>to children and adults. She has been a featured performer at: Rocky Mountain </div><div>Folk Festival, Wildflower Stage (Lyons CO), North American Folk Alliance </div><div>(2002 with Paul Reisler, Nashville TN), City Stages, (Greensboro, NC), </div><div>Cottonwood Festival (Hastings, NE), Flatwater Folk Festival (Hastings, NE), </div><div>LAFTA Concert Series (Lincoln, NE) and Birdhouse (Manhattan, KS). She has </div><div>also performed many times on Nebraska Public Radio's “Friday Live” and has </div><div>been featured on nationally syndicated “River City Folk” with Tom May. She </div><div>is the founder/ producer of The Listening Room, (www.thelisteningroom.org )a </div><div>non-profit concert series founded in 1991. She also started "The Song </div><div>School" as part of Prairie Loft Center's Flatwater Folk Festival in 2008. </div><div>The school is a three-day intensive seminar on songwriting. To learn more, </div><div>please visit: www.prairieloft.org.</div><div><br /></div><div>Emily Dunbar</div><div><br /></div><div>Sherrie Flick</div><div>Sherrie Flick published her debut novel Reconsidering Happiness with </div><div>University of Nebraska Press as part of their Flyover Fiction series in </div><div>September 2009. She is also author of the award-winning flash fiction </div><div>chapbook I Call This Flirting (Flume Press, 2004). Anthologies include </div><div>Sudden Fiction (Norton, 2007) and Flash Fiction Forward (Norton, 2006), as </div><div>well as Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Minuscule Fiction (MAMMOTH </div><div>Press, 2003) and You Have Time for This (Ooligan Press, 2007). Her essay </div><div>“Flash in a Pan” appears in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing </div><div>Flash Fiction, 2009. Her fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, North </div><div>American Review, Quarterly West, Puerto del Sol, Quick Fiction, and Freight </div><div>Stories, among others.</div><div>Flick has received artist residencies from the Ucross Foundation, Atlantic </div><div>Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as a </div><div>Tennessee Williams Scholarship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference. In 2005, </div><div>she was honored as one of Pittsburgh’s “40 under 40.” In 2007, she received </div><div>an individual artist fellowship from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She </div><div>teaches graduate students at Chatham University and undergraduate classes at </div><div>University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Sherrie has also </div><div>taught interdisciplinary writing workshops in many arts institutions, </div><div>including Carnegie Museum of Art and Silver Eye Center for Photography. She </div><div>often helps curate literary programs in alternative settings, such as </div><div>Wood-Fired Words with UnSmoke Systems in Braddock, Pa. and isReads </div><div>Pittsburgh. Flick is artistic director and co-founder of the Gist Street </div><div>Reading Series, now in its tenth year. Gist Street is a literary reading </div><div>series focusing on national and local poets and prose writers publishing </div><div>their first or second books. She is also a freelance writer and editor. She </div><div>lives in Pittsburgh, where she likes to garden. And if you visit her </div><div>mini-blog here on this site you’ll also see she likes to cook.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Pairing Food & Wine:</div><div>Sean Carmichael</div><div>Sean Carmichael is the executive chef of Chez Hay Catering. He attended the </div><div>University of Nebraska Art College and in 1996, graduated from the Colorado </div><div>Art Institute with a degree in Culinary Arts. After college, Sean returned </div><div>to Lincoln and worked as a chef for Inn Harms Way and helped open </div><div>restaurants DiNapoli and J. Finnegan's. He has been featured on two local </div><div>television programs: “10-11 News: In the Kitchen” and “Time Warner Cable: </div><div>Now We’re Cookin”. Sean is also the co-author of Dueling Chefs: A Vegetarian </div><div>& A Meat Lover Debate the Plate, published by University of Nebraska Press.</div><div><br /></div><div>Maggie Pleskac</div><div>Maggie Pleskac is the owner of Maggie’s Vegetarian Café and the co-author of </div><div>Dueling Chefs: A Vegetarian & A Meat Lover Debate the Plate, published by </div><div>University of Nebraska Press. She is on the board of directors of Open </div><div>Harvest Natural Foods Grocery and the vice president of Slow Food Nebraska.</div><div><br /></div><div>Christopher James</div><div>Christopher James is president and founder of Porridge Papers, a nationally </div><div>recognized hand papermill & letterpress studio, often referred to as </div><div>“Lincoln’s littlest big papermill.”</div><div>A self taught and highly creative papermaker and letterpress printer, </div><div>Christopher is a pioneer in the industry with an uncanny ability to think </div><div>beyond traditional techniques. His distinctive “try anything” ability to </div><div>create remarkable paper has been compared to Jeffery Adam "Duff" Goldman </div><div>star of the Food Network reality television show Ace of Cakes.</div><div>Advocates of recycling and local business, Christopher and his team at </div><div>Porridge Papers consider every project a challenge and rewarding experience. </div><div>They give back to the community with their annual Love on the Run project </div><div>where the public is invited to type love notes on antique typewriters that </div><div>are then placed into glass bottles and delivered free of charge.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Kevin Oliver</div><div>A classically trained hand bookbinder, Oliver been applying his trade in </div><div>Lincoln, Nebraska since 1995. Mr. Oliver sees his work as the finishing </div><div>touch on the many trades and crafts which come together to produce a book. A </div><div>student of Daphne Beaumont-Wright, one of the finest British bookbinders in </div><div>the last hundred years, Kevin primarily produces fine bindings and performs </div><div>restoration work. His specialty is 16th and 17th century period style </div><div>bindings. He is the owner/operator of Signature Bindery, and as a </div><div>traditional bookbinder, he only makes use of hand tools and finds simple </div><div>pleasure in applying gold leaf to fine leather and vellum bindings. Kevin </div><div>often teaches bookbinding classes and workshops from his home studio.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Free Range Readers & Rex Walton</div><div>Rex Walton has been writing poetry for nearly twenty years, beginning in the </div><div>mid 80s as a student of UNL English professors Greg Kuzma, Marcia Southwick, </div><div>Mordecai Marcus and Warren Fine. He co-edited the English Department's </div><div>LAURUS undergraduate annual magazine with Season Harper. His poems have been </div><div>published in literary magazines such as Plainsong, and the Plains Song </div><div>Review. A poem of his was used as the lyics for Color of Silence, a musical </div><div>piece by Anthony Lanman (http://www.thenewstyle.org/catalogue.php?id=54). He </div><div>has hosted The Crescent Moon Reading Series since 2005 and operates “Rex’s </div><div>Writerly List,” a literary email list with hundreds of subscribers.</div><div><br /></div><div>//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</div><div><br /></div><div>Info for the Writers Workshop, led by Amy Plettner:</div><div><br /></div><div>Writers' Workshop!</div><div>As part of the Wine, Writers and Song Festival, we offer a Weekend Writers' </div><div>Workshop for 15 participants. NOTE: THERE ARE TWO WORKSHOP ONLY SLOTS AND </div><div>ONE RESIDENTIAL SLOT LEFT...CALL TODAY!</div><div><br /></div><div>Amy Plettner is the 2011 Instructor, read more about Amy in the listings </div><div>with the main program (way above)</div><div><br /></div><div>..............RIVER OF WORDS ...........</div><div><br /></div><div>River of Words Prepare to sweep away any blocks you may have experienced as </div><div>we spend the weekend generating new work. Guided by the Missouri River to </div><div>our east, we will get in the flow and use a variety of tools and techniques </div><div>to banish the inner critic and write. Our goal will be to head home with </div><div>many pages of fresh material, newly forged connections with our fellow </div><div>writers, and a few new strategies to add to our writing practice.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Residential Workshop includes: 2 nights' lodging at the Brownville </div><div>Village Theatre Actors' Residence, meals (including the Friday opening </div><div>dinner), Saturday's “Pairing Food & Wine” program, two writing sessions, the </div><div>opportunity to read your work to a supportive audience at the Writers' </div><div>Workshop Open House on Sunday morning, a canvas bag, all festival </div><div>programming and the chance to meet and hang out with some really neat </div><div>people. The Workshop Instructor will spend the weekend at the Brownville </div><div>Village Theatre's Actors' Residence as well.</div><div><br /></div><div>Residential Workshop participation is limited to 13. Cost for this package </div><div>is $160.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Non-Residential Workshop includes all the above except meals and </div><div>lodging. There are 2 Non-Residential Workshop spots available. Cost for this </div><div>package is $60.</div><div><br /></div><div>Registration for the Weekend Writers' Workshop – both packages – is taken on </div><div>a first-come, first-serve basis.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you're interested in participating – or if you have questions – please </div><div>contact Nora Tallmon, Festival Director, at nora.tallmon@gmail.com or call </div><div>her at 402-825-3992.</div><div><br /></div><div>/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</div><div>Rex Walton</div><div><br /></div><div>rexwalton@windstream.net</div><div>Prairie Moon Reading & Music News</div><div>www.moonreading.blogspot.com</div><div>Tuesdays with Writers</div><div>www.tuesdayswithwriters.blogspot.com</div><div>Brownville Writers</div><div>www.brownvillewriters.blogspot.com </div></div></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6841442221179943897.post-33077424202913760072010-02-23T08:08:00.005-06:002010-05-05T13:09:10.563-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b><i>Welcome to 2010! Here's the NEW info for the Wine Writers & Song, scheduled for April 23th thru 25th, in Brownville....</i></b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><b></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">( for the actual webpage, see: </span><a href="http://www.brownville-ne.com/main.taf?p=1,3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.brownville-ne.com/main.taf?p=1,3</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> )</span><br /></i></b></span><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/brownville-wine-writers.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;"><b><span style="color:#800080;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Wine, Writers & Song 2010</span></span></b><br /><b>Thanks for your interest in Brownville's Wine, Writers & Song Festival!<br />Every year, we spend the last weekend in April celebrating wine, literature, food, music and history with a program of fun events for all ages.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color:#800080;">Friday, April 23 – Sunday, April 25 </span></span><br /><a href="http://www.brownville-ne.com/main.taf?p=1,3#Author_Bios_" style="color: rgb(132, 132, 132); text-decoration: none; ">Find out more about our Authors & Musicians...</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Schedule of Events</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#800080;">Friday Evening<br /></span></b><span style="color:#800080;"></span><i>(At the River Inn, a floating Bed & Breakfast, on the 2nd deck)</i><br /><b>5:00pm-6:00pm Social Hour</b><br />Cash bar featuring music by The Ember Schrag Trio<br /><b>6:00-7:00 Dinner catered by The River Inn</b><br />Buffet featuring a variety of pasta dishes, salads and breads. Dessert & coffee following, to be enjoyed during the evening program.<br /><b>7:30-9:00 Poetry</b><br />Special Guests from Creighton University's Asian Writers' Conference<br />Jinmei Yuan & special poem by Ms. Luye<br />2010 Omaha Healing Arts Slam Poetry Team, hosted by Nebraska Writers Collective<br />Members will be selected for this unique slam poetry team in April, just before the festival. They will compete at the national level in August, 2010. The festival is their debut event, kicking off a busy summer.<br /><b>9:30 Open Mic hosted by Nebraska Writers Collective</b><br />Bring your poetry or short-short fiction and sign up for a slot to read your work during the Festival Open Mic!<br /><br /><span style="color:#800080;"><b>Saturday Morning<br /></b></span><b>9:00 Bright & Early Guided Walk through the Furnas Arboretum<br />9:00-11:30 Weekend Writers' Workshop First Session with Kelly Madigan Erlandson</b><br /><i>(Pre-registration required.)</i><br /><br /><b>Children's Program</b><br /><i>(Brownville Concert Hall, 126 Atlantic Street. Book/CD signings to follow each segment.)</i><br /><b>10:00-10:45 Music by Mike Mennard<br />10:45-11:00 Scene change</b><br /><i>(Bubbles outside if it's nice. “Making Rain” inside if weather isn't cooperative.)</i><br /><b>11:00-11:30 Storytelling by Linda Garcia<br />11:30-12:00 N. L. Sharp, Childrens' Book Author<br /><br />Non-fiction Program</b><br /><i>(Schoolhouse Art Gallery on Main Street. Book signings to follow each segment.)</i><br /><b>10:00-11:00 Jeff Barnes </b><br />Jeff Barnes is the author of Forts of the Northern Plains, he has done extensive research in and around Nebraska. His presentation includes a slide-show. Jeff Barnes appears at the festival courtesy of the Nebraska Humanities Council Speakers' Bureau.<br /><b>11:00-12:00 Paul Johnsgard </b><br />Paul Johnsgard is a world-renowned ornithologist and has published over 50 books.<br /><br /><b>Lunch on your own. The Lyceum Cafe and T.J.'s are open!<br /><br /><span style="color:#800080;">Saturday Afternoon & Evening<br /></span>2:00 Cruise the Missouri River on the “Spirit of Brownville”</b><br />$9.95 per person, ages 5 and under free<br />Music by Manny Coon<br /><br /><b>The Art of Fiction</b><br /><i>(The Antiquarium Bookstore, Fourth & Water Streets)</i><br /><b>2:00-3:00 Beef Torrey & Kevin Simonson<br />3:00-4:00 Amy Knox-Brown<br /><br />Songwriter's Roundtable </b><br /><i>(The Lyceum, 231 Main Street. CD signings to follow.)</i><br /><b>2:30-4:00 Robin Harrell, Todd Brown & Emily Dunbar</b><br />A salon-type conversation in which the songwriters discuss their writing process, play snippets of music, and entertain questions from the audience.<br /><br /><b>Young Adult Writing Workshop with Andrew Ek</b><br /><i>(Schoolhouse Art Gallery, 427 Main Street)</i><br /><b>3:30-6:30<br /><br />4:30-6:00 Weekend Writers' Workshop Second Session with Kelly Madigan Erlandson</b><br /><i>(Pre-registration required)<br />(The Brownville Lyceum, 231 Main Street.)</i><br /><br /><b>Pairing Food & Wine Program</b><br /><i>(Whiskey Run Creek Winery, second level)</i><br />$8 per person, space is limited<br />Presenters include Ron Heskett, Sean Carmichael and Maggie Pleskac<br />Hosted by Barbara Bond<br />Vintner Ron Heskett and chef/authors Sean Carmichael and Maggie Pleskac will team up to show participants which wines best complement which flavors. Each chef will offer an appetizer to be paired with a Whiskey Run Creek Winery wine. Sean & Maggie will sign copies of their cookbook, Dueling Chefs: A Vegetarian & A Meat Lover Debate the Plate.<br /><b>Session 1: 4:30-6:00<br />Session 2: 6:30-8:00<br /></b>The first half hour of each session will be a tour of the historic Whiskey Run Creek cave.<br /><br /><b>Dinner on your own. The Lyceum Cafe & T.J.'s are open!</b><br /><br /><b>Evening Revelry</b><br /><i>(Whiskey Run Creek Winery deck and grounds)</i><br /><b>8:00-10:00 Music by Jumpin' Kate </b><br />CD signings on breaks<br /><br /><span style="color:#800080;"><b>Sunday<br /></b></span><b>9:30-11:00 Weekend Writers' Workshop Open House</b><br /><i>(Brownville Village Theatre Residence, on Richard Street)</i><br />The Weekend Writers' Workshop invites you in for coffee, rolls and a reading.<br /><br /><b>Book Arts Program<br />11:00-11:30 A Collection of Science Fiction Books, presented by Julie & David Humphrey</b><br /><i>(A Novel Idea Bookstore, Chapter Two 117 Main Street)</i><br /><b>11:30-12:00 Book Binding, presented by Kevin Oliver </b><br /><i>(Chaney Gallery, 123 Main Street)</i><br /><b>Ongoing “Art of the Book” Mini-Sculpture display by Harry Andersen</b><br /><i>(Gallery 119, 119 Main Street. Sculptures and art for sale.)</i><br /><br /><b>1:00-4:00 Free Range Readings, hosted by Rex Walton</b><br /><i>(The Brownville Lyceum, 231 Main Street)</i><br />Sponsored by Chaney Gallery<br />Join us for a laid-back afternoon of poetry – with some fiction and nonfiction tossed in the mix. We'll enjoy a range of readings!<br />Art Homer, Twyla Hansen, Amy Plettner, Roy Scheele, Katie F-S, Karen Shoemaker, Shelly Clark, Char Neely, Paul Fish, JV Brummels, Greg Kosmicki, Writers' Guild & others.<br /><br /><a name="Author_Bios_"><b>2010 Authors & Musicians</b><br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/barnes.jpg" align="left" /><b>Jeff Barnes</b>, a freelance writer and fifth-generation Nebraskan, is a former newspaper reporter and editor, past chairman of the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission, former marketing director for the Durham Western Heritage Museum and present board member of the Douglas County Historical Society.<br />Barnes is with the speakers bureau of the Nebraska Humanities Council, and has presented at the Fort Robinson History Conference and the Mountain-Plains Museum Association annual conference. He presents frequently to museums, historical societies, libraries and civil organizations on the forts.<br /><br /><b>Barbara Bond</b> offers culinary services and is the owner of The Cooking School of Brownville, which focuses on culinary technique. Classes offered include: Fresh Pasta & Sauces, Meats: Roasting, Braising & Smoking with Tea Leaves, Tarts: Sweet & Savory, Sauces: Reduction, Emulsion & Starch Based, Summer Appetizers, Fall Appetizers, & Bistro Cooking.</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;"><a name="Author_Bios_"><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/todd-brown.jpg" align="left" /><b>Todd Brown</b> strives to be a designer, carpenter, artist and musician. He has performed on several stages throughout the United States solo and with his wife Cody Carson-Brown. His songwriting has won regional competitions and his guitar playing is ok. He can be found at the Listening Room as a performer and volunteer in Hastings, Nebraska where he resides.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/chef1.jpg" align="left" /><b>Sean Carmichael</b> is the executive chef of Chez Hay Catering. He attended the University of Nebraska Art College and in 1996, graduated from the Colorado Art Institute with a degree in Culinary Arts. After college, Sean returned to Lincoln and worked as a chef for Inn Harms Way and helped open restaurants DiNapoli and J. Finnegan's. He has been featured on two local television programs: “10-11 News: In the Kitchen” and “Time Warner Cable: Now We’re Cookin”. Sean is also the co-author of Dueling Chefs: A Vegetarian & A Meat Lover Debate the Plate, published by University of Nebraska Press.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/shelly.jpg" align="left" /><b>Shelly Clark Geiser</b> was born and has spent most of her life in Imperial, Nebraska. She moved to Omaha in 2005. She taught English and Journalism for 17 years at Chase County High School and for two years at Midlands Lutheran College. She now owns a small business with her husband, Jack. In 2003, Shelly and Marjorie Saiser co-edited an anthology of Nebraska writers, Road Trip: Conversations With Writers, published by Backwaters Press and winner of two Nebraska Book Awards. Shelly’s poems have been anthologized in Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace, and Nebraska Presence. Other poems have appeared in Nebraska Territory, Nebraska English Journal and Plain Song Review.</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;"><a name="Author_Bios_"><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/ek.jpg" align="left" /><b>Andrew Ek</b> was raised in Colorado Springs, but arrived in Nebraska by way of the university in Lincoln. He is a published author of several short stories, and was an opinion columnist for UNL's student newspaper. Along with that, he is a regular presence at Nebraska's poetry slams, and was a member of the 2008 and 2009 poetry slam teams from Lincoln, the highlight of which was a 12th-place team finish at the 2008 National Poetry Slam in Madison, Wisconsin. In addition to his writing, Andrew teaches high school English and is a curriculum advisor and member of the Nebraska Writers Collective's board of directors.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/robin-harrell.jpg" align="left" /><b>Robin Harrell</b> has taught guitar for 26 years. In 2004, she was awarded Hastings' YWCA Tribute to Women Award for her teaching and musical mentoring to children and adults. She has been a featured performer at: Rocky Mountain Folk Festival, Wildflower Stage (Lyons CO), North American Folk Alliance (2002 with Paul Reisler, Nashville TN), City Stages, (Greensboro, NC), Cottonwood Festival (Hastings, NE), Flatwater Folk Festival (Hastings, NE), LAFTA Concert Series (Lincoln, NE) and Birdhouse (Manhattan, KS). She has also performed many times on Nebraska Public Radio's “Friday Live” and has been featured on nationally syndicated “River City Folk” with Tom May. She is the founder/ producer of The Listening Room, (www.thelisteningroom.org )a non-profit concert series founded in 1991. She also started "The Song School" as part of Prairie Loft Center's Flatwater Folk Festival in 2008. The school is a three-day intensive seminar on songwriting. To learn more, please visit: www.prairieloft.org.</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;"><a name="Author_Bios_"><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/humphrey.jpg" align="left" /><b>David and Julie Humphrey</b> have been collecting books for over a decade, amassing an impressive library of nearly 1200 titles. David got his start in college by collecting Stephen King 1st editions. After meeting Julie, who thought collecting books was a great idea, the collection spread to include fantasy, science fiction, and mystery titles. The Humphrey's have taken several trips around America and up to Canada to attend conventions and book signings for their favorite authors. There are two things that make them smile: the thrill of finding a first edition and getting to meet an author they admire.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/johnsgard.jpg" align="left" /><b>Paul Johnsgard</b> is by far the most prolific writer of non-fiction or fiction books in Nebraska’s history, and correspondingly is the world’s most prolific author of ornithological literature. Nearly all of Johnsgard’s monographs deal in part with conservation of groups, species, or habitats. His 51 published books total about 3 million words, and occupy nearly five linear feet of shelf space.<br />Retiring in 2001 after 40 years at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Prof. Johnsgard taught ecological and ornithological science to more than 5,000 undergraduate students, and directed the academic programs of over 20 graduate students. His humanistic and creative writing interests are indicated by his receipt of the Loren Eiseley Award in 1988, given for writings that attempt to blend science with humanism, and the Mari Sandoz Award in 1984, for contributions to the literature of Nebraska. He was listed by the Lincoln Journal Star (July 15, 1999) as one of “100 people who have helped build Nebraska...the past 100 years.” He was also chosen by the Omaha World Herald (Nov. 29, 1999) as one of 100 “Extraordinary Nebraskans” of the past century. Only 30 persons (only six of whom were then still alive) were included in both these lists. In 2005 he received the National Conservation Achievement Award in Science from the National Wildlife Federation.<br />Wind through the Buffalo Grass is Prof. Johnsgard's most recent book, several of his more popular titles have been translated into other languages. He was the first University of Nebraska professor to win three major faculty honors, the Distinguished Teaching Award, the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award, and a University Foundation Professorship.</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;"><a name="Author_Bios_"><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/knox-brown.jpg" align="left" /><b>Amy Knox Brown</b> is a fourth-generation Nebraskan currently living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she is assistant professor of creative writing at Salem College and director of the school's Center for Women Writers. Her story collection Three Versions of the Truth was a finalist for the 2008 Shenandoah/Glasgow Emerging Writers Award, and she is also the author of a poetry chapbook, Advice from Household Gods. She and her husband John McNally, share their home with three dogs and seven cats.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/logan.jpg" align="left" /><b>Katie Logan</b> is a singer/songwriter who plays lead and rhythm guitar covering a variety of rock, reggae, blues, folk, country, and good ol’ American pop, as well as, performing and recording dozens of her own original songs. She’s been writing songs for twenty-five years and has recorded eleven albums. Katie has earned her position in the music scene playing her originals and covers all over Las Vegas, the Midwest, and points beyond. She has recently relocated to her hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska with plans to tour the Midwest and busy working on her twelfth album. Her dynamic stage presence is evidenced in the upbeat dialogue, the stories, and the easy rapport with audiences, and of course, the jumpin’ energy, therefore, the well deserved nickname--Jumpin' Kate.</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;"><a name="Author_Bios_"><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/madigan.jpg" align="left" /><b>Kelly Madigan Erlandson</b> is the author of Getting Sober: A Practical Guide to Making it Through the First 30 Days (McGraw-Hill). Her poems and essays have appeared in Best New Poets 2007, Crazyhorse, The Massachusetts Review, and Prairie Schooner. She was awarded the Distinguished Artist Award in Literature from the Nebraska Arts Council in 2006, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2008. Visit her website at www.KellyMadiganErlandson.com.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/mason.jpg" align="left" /><b>Matt Mason</b> has won 2 Nebraska Book Awards as well as had his poems published in over 150 magazines and anthologies. His first full length collection, Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (The Backwaters Press, 2006), besides winning a Nebraska Book Award, was a Contemporary Poetry bestseller. He has done poetry programs for the United States Department of State in Minsk, Belarus, colleges and universities around the country, and dozens of high schools in Nebraska,Iowa, and Missouri. Mason earned his MA in Creative Writing from the University of California at Davis, then, of course, moved to Omaha where he now lives with his wonderful wife Sarah and baby daughters Sophia and Lucia. He also edits PoetryMenu.com, a listing of every Nebraska poetry event (and, yes, there are a lot, see for yourself)and is the Executive Director for the Nebraska Writers Collective.</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;"><a name="Author_Bios_"><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/mennard.jpg" align="left" /><b>Mike Mennard</b> has been performing throughout Nebraska, California, West Virginia, Illinois, Oregon, and Montana since 2004. He has produced four albums, Something’s Rotting in the Fridge, When Mother Goose Laid an Egg, Night at the Whaler’s Inn, Pirates… do the Darnedest Things, and We've Got It All In Nebraska. In 2010, he will release his first complete collection of kids' poetry entitled, To the Ledge at the Edge of the Universe. “Mike is a creative genius,” says Cindy Johnson of Hill Elementary School. “Few poets and songwriters have so effectively captured what it is to be a kid. And few have done so as compassionately and humorously as he has. He is a treasure.” Mike lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, Michelle, and son, Ramsey. He teaches English and Communication at Union College.</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;"><a name="Author_Bios_"><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/neely.jpg" align="left" /><b>Charlene Neely</b> plays with words like a three-year-old plays with blocks -- shuffling them around, stacking up, knocking down and rearranging them until they suit her. She likes the sound, feel and look of words. She has lived in Lincoln and several small towns in Nebraska and Iowa. Charlene is a member of Lincoln Chaparral Poets, Nebraska Chaparral Poets, Nebraska Writers Guild and several other smaller and more informal writing groups which all keep her muse on alert. Her poetry has been published in Plains Song Review; Songs For The Granddaughters; Dreams For Our Daughters; Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace; Nebraska Presence; Perceptions from Nowhere and many other magazines and anthologies.</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;"><a name="Author_Bios_"><br /><b>Kevin Oliver</b>, a classically trained hand bookbinder, has been applying his trade in Lincoln, Nebraska since 1995. Mr. Oliver sees his work as the finishing touch on the many trades and crafts which come together to produce a book. A student of Daphne Beaumont-Wright, one of the finest British bookbinders in the last hundred years, Kevin primarily produces fine bindings and performs restoration work. His specialty is 16th and 17th century period style bindings. He is the owner/operator of Signature Bindery, and as a traditional bookbinder, he only makes use of hand tools and finds simple pleasure in applying gold leaf to fine leather and vellum bindings. Kevin often teaches bookbinding classes and workshops from his home studio.</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;"><a name="Author_Bios_"><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/chef2.jpg" align="left" /><b>Maggie Pleskac</b> is the owner of Maggie’s Vegetarian Café and the co-author of Dueling Chefs: A Vegetarian & A Meat Lover Debate the Plate, published by University of Nebraska Press. She is on the board of directors of Open Harvest Natural Foods Grocery and the vice president of Slow Food Nebraska.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/amy.JPG" align="left" /><b>Amy Plettner</b> is a student in the University of Nebraska MFA writing program. She lives south of Denton Nebraska where she enjoys the wind, native grasses, fireflies, and moonlight. Her poetry has appeared in the anthologies Nebraska Presence and Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace both from Backwaters Press. Other publications include Plains Song Review, The Omaha World-Herald’s “Everyday Poetry” series, Nebraska Life, Celebrate: A Collection of Women’s Writing, and Bill Kloefkorn’s, radio broadcast, Poetry of the Plains.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/schelle.JPG" align="left" /><b>Roy Scheele</b> is Poet in Residence at Doane College,where he has taught since 1982. His collection Pointing Out the Sky (Sandhills Press, 1985) was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1986, and in 1993 he won an Individual Artist Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. His latest collection of poems is A Far Allegiance from Backwaters Press. 1993 he won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/schrag.jpg" align="left" /><b>Ember Schrag</b> lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she curates a vibrant house concert venue and arts community called “Clawfoot House”. She has shared stages with Jake Bellows (Neva Dinova), Lowry, The Bruces, Shelley Short, Mal Madrigal, Samuel Locke Ward, Bill Hoover, You & Yourn and The Chiara Quartet. After performing all around the Midwest for almost eight years, Schrag released her debut album, A Cruel, Cruel Woman, in June of 2009 on Lone Prairie Records. She has a solo EP and second full-length album in the works, and her band appears (along with Jad Fair of Half Japanese) on the LoFidelity Living 5 compilation released by Workerbee in December 2009. She was recently nominated for Best Alternative Singer-Songwriter in the 2010 Omaha Entertainment Awards.</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;"><a name="Author_Bios_"><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/sharp.jpg" align="left" /><b>Nancy Sharp Wagner</b>, aka N. L. Sharp, loves to share her enthusiasm and knowledge about writing and the writing process with writers of all ages. A native Nebraskan, Nancy is the author of four picture books. Today I’m Going Fishing with My Dad was a 1995-1996 Nebraska Golden Sower nominee. The Ring Bear was selected by Nebraska’s Center for the Book as the 2004 winner in the children’s category. Effie’s Image was named a 2006 Teachers’ Choice Award Winner by Learning Magazine and a Nebraska Golden Sower nominee for 2007-2008. Her newest picture book, The Flower Girl / The Ring Bear: A Flip-Over Book was just released in January, 2010.<br />Nancy has presented at schools and libraries, and at reading and writing conferences at the local, state, regional, and national level. She has a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree from UNL and a Library Media endorsement from UNO. Nancy has been a classroom teacher in Gretna and Fremont, and a classroom teacher, a READ (Reading, Enrichment, and Development) teacher, an Instructional Facilitator, and a Library Media Specialist for the Millard Public School District in Omaha, Nebraska. She is currently working as an educational writing consultant while she works on two middle-grade novels for children aged 9-12.</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;"><a name="Author_Bios_"><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/simonson.jpg" align="left" /><b>Kevin Simonson</b>, an Omaha-based writer, was friends with Hunter S. Thompson, and his interviews with the notorious gonzo journalist have appeared in the pages of Spin, the Aspen Daily Times, Hustler, and the Village Voice. Simonson has also written for Rolling Stone, Thrasher, and Boys' Life. He coeditied Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson (University of Mississippi Press, 2008) with Beef Torrey.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/torrey.jpg" align="left" /><b>Beef Torrey</b> lives on a small farm near Crete, Nebraska. He is the editor of Conversations with Thomas McGuane (University Press of Mississippi, 2006), senior editor of Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson (University Press of Missiissippi, 2008) and coauthor of Jim Harrison: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1964-2008 (University of Nebraska Press). His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in Firsts Magazine, Foreword, Independent Publisher and numerous scholarly and professional journals.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.brownville-ne.com/img/walton.jpg" align="left" /><b>Rex Walton</b> has been writing poetry for nearly twenty years, beginning in the mid 80s as a student of UNL English professors Greg Kuzma, Marcia Southwick, Mordecai Marcus and Warren Fine. He co-edited the English Department's LAURUS undergraduate annual magazine with Season Harper. His poems have been published in literary magazines such as Plainsong, and the Plains Song Review. A poem of his was used as the lyics for Color of Silence, a musical piece by Anthony Lanman (http://www.thenewstyle.org/catalogue.php?id=54). He has hosted The Crescent Moon Reading Series since 2005 and operates “Rex’s Writerly List,” a literary email list with hundreds of subscribers.<br /><br /><br /></a></span></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6841442221179943897.post-25414970144275925672009-03-11T15:25:00.010-05:002009-03-30T16:58:33.232-05:00<div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">the 2009</span></strong></span></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><em>Wine, Writers & Song</em></span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">Festival</span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0000;"><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></div></span><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><em>Brownville, NE</em> </span></span></span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><br /></span>April 24-26<br /></span><br /></div></strong></span><div align="left"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Come celebrate literature, food, wine, and music in Historic Brownville!</span></span></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></span></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Schedule of Events:</span></span></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">(Accomodations: phone # below schedule)</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Friday Afternoon & Evening</span><br /></div></span></strong></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">3:30</span> <span style="color:#990000;">Cruise the Missouri River on the “Spirit of Brownville”</span> $9.95 per person, children under 5 free<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">5:00–6:00</span> Social Hour (The Lyceum, main level and grounds) Cash bar featuring wine from Whiskey Run Creek Winery and music by <span style="color:#990000;">Wee Brazen Hussies, Celtic duo<br /></span><span style="color:#ff0000;">6:00–7:30</span> Dinner at The Lyceum ($15 charge for meal, cash bar)<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">7:30–9:00</span> 2009 <span style="color:#990000;">No Coast National Slam Poetry Team</span>, hosted by Nebraska Writers Collective (The Lyceum)<br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Saturday Morning</span></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"><strong><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">8:30–9:30</span> Bright & Early Guided Walk, hosted by John Lauber, curator, Furnas Arboretum<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">8:45–10:45</span> <span style="color:#990000;">Weekend Writers’ Workshop with Barbara Schmitz</span>, author of “How Much Our Dancing Has Improved,” winner of the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry—preregistration required, additional fee of $135 includes two nights’ lodging, meals, admission to Pairing Food & Wine Program, and a canvas bag (Brownville Village Theatre Residence)<br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Children’s Program (Brownville Concert Hall) </span></strong></span></div><span style="color:#009900;"><strong><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">10:00–11:00</span> Music by </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#990000;">The String Beans<br /></span><span style="color:#ff0000;">11:00–11:30</span> Storyteller <span style="color:#990000;">Royal Eckert</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">11:30–12:00</span> <span style="color:#990000;">James Solheim</span>, author of “It Was Disgusting and I Ate It.” (Book/CD signings to follow each part of the program)<br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Fiction Readings</span> (A Novel Idea Bookstore, Chapter 2)<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">10:00–11:00</span> <span style="color:#990000;">Timothy Schaffert</span>, author of “The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters”<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">11:00–12:00</span> <span style="color:#990000;">Sean Doolittle</span>, author of “The Clean-up” (Book signings to follow each author’s program)<br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Lunch on your own</span> (The Lyceum Café and TJ’s Tavern are open)<br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Saturday Afternoon & Evening</span> </span></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">2:00</span> <span style="color:#990000;">Cruise the Missouri River on the “Spirit of Brownville”</span> $9.95 per person, children under 5 free<br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Nonfiction Program</span>(Carson House )<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">2:00–3:00</span> A Historical Perspective by <span style="color:#990000;">Don Cunningham</span>, former editor of “Nebraska History,” and <span style="color:#990000;">Bill Lock (change)</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">3:00–4:00</span> Collecting Rare Hunting Books by </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#990000;">Brooks Carmichael<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Songwriters’ Roundtable</span> (The Lyceum)<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">2:30–4:00</span> <span style="color:#990000;">John Walker, Ember Schrag, and Tony Church</span> (Discussion of songwriting process, audience questions/participation. CD signings to follow the program)<br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Pairing Food & Wine Program</span>(Whiskey Run Creek Winery)<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">4:30–6:00</span> Chef <span style="color:#990000;">Barbara Bond</span>,authors/chefs <span style="color:#990000;">Maggie Pleskac</span> and <span style="color:#990000;">Sean Carmichael</span>, vintner <span style="color:#990000;">Ron Heskett</span> (Each chef prepares an appetizer to pair with a Whiskey Run Creek wine. Samples given. Maggie and Sean discuss their cookbook,“Dueling Chefs: A Vegetarian and a MeatLover Debate the Plate.” Book signing to follow the program) $5 charge<br /></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">6:00–9:00</span> <span style="color:#990000;">BBQ</span> (Whiskey Run Creek Winery deck and grounds)—Music by <span style="color:#990000;">Jumpin’ Kate</span> (CD signings on breaks) $7 charge for meal<br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Sunday</span> </span></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">9:00</span> <span style="color:#990000;">Writers’ Continental Breakfast</span> at The Lyceum, featuring readings given by Writers’Workshop participants<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">11:00</span> Tour of <span style="color:#990000;">The Schoolhouse Art Gallery</span>,hosted by <span style="color:#990000;">George Nubert</span>,curator<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">11:30</span> Tour of <span style="color:#990000;">The Antiquarium Bookstore</span>,hosted by <span style="color:#990000;">Tom Rudloff</span>, proprietor<br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Lunch on your own</span> (The Lyceum Café and TJ’s Tavern are open)<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">1:00–4:00</span> <span style="color:#990000;">Free Range Readings</span> hosted by <span style="color:#990000;">Rex Walton</span>, longtime host of the Crescent Moon Reading Series (Continual readings and discussions of the writing process featuring <span style="color:#990000;">Greg Kosmicki, Beth Gillespie, Greg Kuzma, Nicole Church, Marjorie Saiser, J.V. Brummels, Matt Mason, Sarah McKinstry-Brown, Heidi Hermanson, and others</span>)<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">the 2009 Festival is sponsored by</span> Nebraska Humanities Council, Nebraska Arts Council, A Novel Idea Bookstore, Infusionmedia Publishing, and Prairie Sage Publishing with support from Merchants of Brownville, Chaney Gallery, The Lyceum Bookstore & Café, The Antiquarium Bookstore, Brownville Fine Arts Association, Brownville Historical Society, Brownville Village Theatre, Whiskey Run Creek Winery, and The Village Bookstore. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Accomodations:</span></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">In Brownville<br /></span>The CottageLuxury, executive lodging, call 402-883-2690.<a href="http://www.brownville-ne.com/res/mcmullen-single-flyer.pdf" target="_blank">More Information</a><br />Pearson-Kelley House402-825-6637<a href="http://www.marysemporium.com/cottage.htm" target="_blank">Pearson-Kelley House Website</a><br />Pierce House402-825-4921<br />Village Guest House402-825-4921</div><div align="left">Randel Smith's Floating Hotel ( Steamboat on the River!) 402-825-4211</div><div align="left"><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">In Auburn</span> <span style="color:#cc0000;">(9 miles west of Brownville)</span><br />Arbor Manor Motel402-274-3663<br />Palmer House402-274-3193<br />Cooper House B&B402-274-3335</div><div align="left">City of Auburn RV Park 402-274-3450<br />Longs Creek RV Park in Auburn 402-274-3413</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#cc0000;">In Peru ( 6 miles northwest)<br /></span>Coleman B&B 402-872-7715</div><div align="left"><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">In Rock Port, Missouri (about 6 miles east of Brownville)<br /></span>Rock Port Inn 660-744-6282<br />In Nebraska City<br />Arbor Day Farm 402-873-8733<br />Camping & RV Facilities<br />Brownville State Recreation Area 402-825-4131<br />Indian Cave State Park 402-883-2575<br />Rock Port, MO KOA 660-744-5485<br /></strong></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6841442221179943897.post-25294483988465163232009-02-26T20:51:00.002-06:002009-02-26T20:55:15.053-06:00<div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">As part of the Wine, Writers and Song Festival, we are offering a </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Weekend Writers' Workshop</span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">with <span style="color:#ff0000;">Barbara Schmitz</span>. <br /><br /></div></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">The price of $135 includes:</span></div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"><div align="left"><br />2 nights' lodging at the Brownville Theatre Residence, the Friday dinner, Saturday's "Pairing Food & Wine" program, Saturday's BBQ, lunches Saturday & Sunday, workshop instruction with Barbara Schmitz, the opportunity to read your work (if you wish) to a supportive audience at the Writers' Continental Breakfast on Sunday, a canvas bag, all festival programming and the chance to meet and hang out with some really neat people. Residential workshop participation is limited to 13 and registration will be taken on a first-come, first-serve basis. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">If you're interested in participating, please contact <span style="color:#990000;">Cinnamon Dokken,</span> festival chair, at </span><a href="mailto:cinnamondokken@yahoo.com"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">cinnamondokken@yahoo.com</span></a>. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Poet <span style="color:#cc0000;">BARBARA SCHMITZ</span> retired from her teaching position in English at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska, though she still teaches occasionally. She is a former editor of Elkhorn Review, and she has had poems published in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Laurel Review, Nebraska Review, Silverfish Review, Poetry Motel, Hurakan, River Styx, and Kansas Quarterly. Her chapbook, Making Tracks, was published by Suburban Wilderness Press in Duluth. She's also the author of The Lives of the Saints (Main-Travelled Roads #8, 1996). and How to Get Out of the Body (Sandhills Press, 1999). She is also the author of The Upside Down Heart (Sandhills Press, 2003) and the forthcoming How Much Our Dancing Has Improved? (Backwaters Press, 2005). A resident of Norfolk, she gives psychic readings in the form of poems and is a winner of the Encouragement Award from the Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artists Fellowships program (1997). <a href="http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/schmitz.htm">http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/schmitz.htm</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6841442221179943897.post-81497740272366236672009-02-03T14:57:00.002-06:002009-02-03T15:07:01.722-06:00<div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#990000;">April 24-26, 2009</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><em>Brownville's Wine, Writers & Song Festival</em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#990000;"> in Brownville, NE</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Coming soon to Brownville, the fifth edition of the Writing and Music Festival.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">This year, as we have before, will be writers reading, workshops for writing of all types, music throughout the day and evening, not to mention barbeques, riverboats, and around all of us the beautiful olden river town of Brownville, with historic homes, shops, restaurants, and miles of hiking/biking trail. In addition, there will be, concurrently, a weekend Writers' Workshop retreat, details now being solidified.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Whew!</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Exactly what will occur is coming soon! stay tuned here, or </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">see the <em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Prairie Moon Reading News</span></em>, at</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"><a href="http://www.moonreading.blogspot.com/">www.moonreading.blogspot.com</a>, </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">or <span style="color:#ff0000;">Matt Mason's</span> site, <a href="http://www.poetrymenu.com/">www.poetrymenu.com</a> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">or the <span style="color:#ff0000;">Lyceum BookHaven</span> in Brownville, at </span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.brownvillelyceum.com/"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">http://www.brownvillelyceum.com/</span></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6841442221179943897.post-60091011329902691992008-04-25T19:12:00.002-05:002009-01-10T11:41:13.480-06:00<div align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Friday, Saturday, Sunday, April 25, 26, 27:<br />BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA'S Sixth Annual<br />>>>FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK<<<</span></div><div align="left"><br />Jane Smith, and the town of Brownville, are once again bringing the Brownville FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK 2008, a three day gathering of writers, musicians and readers that celebrates the Village's globally recognized status as a "BookTown."<br />Along with the Lyceum, Jane's wonderful bookstore & cafe', Brownville features three more bookstores finished, or under completion -- "The Novel Idea" bookstore of Lincoln has their "Chapter Two" store open now, as well as the original Brownville bookstore, the " Village Bookstore", AND Tom Rudloff is moving his Antiquarium Bookstore from the Old Market, Omaha location to the brick school building in Brownville!! Completion is this summer, but Tom will be around to show the construction --<br /><br />SCHEDULE:<br /></div><div align="left">FRIDAY, APRIL 25 5-7 p.m. Dinner on your own at the Lyceum<br />7-8 p.m. Blues and folk musician John “Doc” Walker and Bill Kloefkorn, state poet and author of Restoring the Burnt Child, the 2008 One Book One Nebraska selection bring the Music of Poetry & the Poetry of Music show....<br />8 p.m. Lincoln’s award-winning Slam Poetry Team: Beth Gillespie, J.M. Huscher, Stacy Fox, Ross Hickerson, Andrew Ek and Ryan Tewell</div><div align="left">SATURDAY, APRIL 26</div><div align="left">9:30-10 a.m. Coffee and muffins at the Lyceum<br />10 a.m. Dorothy Rieke, Nebraska author and story-teller, will read from her work and discuss her writing philosphy<br />11 a.m. Art Homer and Alison Wilson, A Dialogue of Poems. Art and Alison will talk about travel, relationships, and the local landscape through poems<br />12 noon-1 p.m. Lunch on own at the Lyceum<br />1 p.m. Del Bowers of Falls City will discuss the friendship of John Falter, artist and illustrator, and Pee Wee Erwin, jazz musician, who grew up together in Falls City and went on to acquire national prominence in their fields.<br />2 p.m. Amy Knox Brown, Lincoln native, currently living in Winston Salem NC, where she teaches creative writing at Salem College. Amy will read from her published works, which include Three Versions of the Truth, a collection of short stories, and discuss her writing process.<br />3 p.m. Dan Jaffe, professor emeritus at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and author of more than a dozen books, will discuss his affinity for poetry and jazz.<br />4 p.m. Concurrent sessions:<br />In the Lyceum main reading room Mara Giles, vice- president, Nebraska Writers Guild, will detail the benefits of Guild membership to authors and would-be authors.<br />and<br />In the conference room Jan McMullen, board member Nebraska Center for the Book, will lead a discussion of the 2008 One Book One Nebraska selection, Restoring the Burnt Child, by Bill Kloefkorn<br />5:30 p.m. on the deck at Whiskey Run Creek Winery.<br />BQ catered by Freeman and Sandra Bertelsen. Music by the Lincoln ensemble, Skylark: Julie Felzien, keyboard, Jerry Renaud, guitar and vocals, Gene Davis, bass guitar and vocals, Dell Darling, drums, and Sharon Kreimer, lead vocals.</div><div align="left">SUNDAY, APRIL 27<br />Church services 10 a.m. Brownville Methodist, 11 a.m. Brownville Christian<br />Lunch at the Lyceum 11:30-1 p.m.<br />1-4 p.m. Readings by Lincoln Writers’ Group including Rex Walton, Marge Saiser, Char Neely, Amy Plettner, Nancy McCleery, Jan Chism Wright, Edgar Clemens, and music by 12-string guitarist Tony Church****There will be no charge for attendance at scheduled events.<br />****Food will be available for purchase.<br />A complete schedule of events will be posted on <a href="http://www.brownvillelyceum.com/">http://www.brownvillelyceum.com/</a>. Information can also be obtained by calling 402 825 4211 or writing PO Box 96 Brownville NE 68321.STAY TUNED here for further details, on Matt Mason's site, <a href="http://www.poetrymenu.com/">http://www.poetrymenu.com/</a><br />as well as <a href="http://www.brownvillelyceum.com/">http://www.brownvillelyceum.com/</a><br />and <a href="http://www.moonreading.blogspot.com/">http://www.moonreading.blogspot.com/</a> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6841442221179943897.post-29319701323424099052008-04-10T17:00:00.003-05:002008-04-25T19:12:40.500-05:00<span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Friday, Saturday, Sunday, April 25, 26, 27:<br />BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA'S Sixth Annual<br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">>>>FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK<<<</span><br />Jane Smith, and the town of Brownville, are once again bringing the Brownville FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK 2008, a three day gathering of writers, musicians and readers that celebrates the Village's globally recognized status as a "BookTown."<br /><br />Along with the Lyceum, Jane's wonderful bookstore & cafe', Brownville features three more bookstores finished, or under completion -- "The Novel Idea" bookstore of Lincoln has their "Chapter Two" store open now, as well as the original Brownville bookstore, the " Village Bookstore", AND Tom Rudloff is moving his Antiquarium Bookstore from the Old Market, Omaha location to the brick school building in Brownville!! Completion is this summer, but Tom will be around to show the construction --<br /><br />MORE INFO HERE!!!:<br />Wine, writers, and song will be on tap at the<br />Sixth Annual Festival of the Book at Brownville.<br /><br />****There will be no charge for attendance at scheduled events.<br />****Food will be available for purchase.<br /><br />Events will kick-off<br />Friday evening with dinner at the Brownville Lyceum from 5-7 p.m., followed by<span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"> a 7 p.m. performance by musician John “Doc” Walker and state poet Wm. Kloefkorn</span>. Members of the <span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Lincoln Slam Poetry team will take the stage at 8 p.m.</span><br /><span style="color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#006600;">Saturday morning and afternoon sessions</span><br /></span>will include readings, discussions, and performances by Festival presenters. The Saturday noon key-note speaker will be <span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Delmar Bowers</span> of Falls City discussing the friendship of Falls City natives artist John Falter and jazz great PeeWee Erwin. Prints by Falter, who did a number of covers for the Saturday Evening Post, and his lithographs of jazz greats are on exhibit at the Lyceum. Amy Sadle’s woodcuts and water colors are also on exhibit.<br /><br />Saturday will conclude with<span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"> a barbecue supper on the deck of Whiskey Run Creek Winery</span> and a performance by the <span style="font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Lincoln musical ensemble “Skylark.”</span> Those attending are invited to bring lawn chairs.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Sunday, 1-4 p.m., at the Lyceum bookstore,</span> will include readings by <span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">the Lincoln Writers Group led by Rex Walton. The writers group has confirmed, so far, Marge Saiser, Amy Plettner, Tony Church, Char Neely, and Rex. Other names will be listed as arrangements are made...</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><br /></span>Festival authors and musicians include:<span style="color:#cc0000;">Delmar Bowers, Amy Knox Brown, Tony Church, Dell Darling, Gene Davis, Andrew Ek, Julie Felzien, Stacy Fox, Mara Giles, Beth Gillespie, Ross Hickerson, Art Homer, J. M. Huscher ,Dan Jaffe, William Kloefkorn, Sharon Kreimer, Jan McMullen, Char Neely, Amy Plettner, Jerry Renaud, Dorothy Rieke, Marge Saiser, Ryan Tewell, John “Doc” Walker, Rex Walton, and Alison Wilson.</span><br /></span><span style="color:#cc0000;"><br /></span>A complete schedule of events will be posted on <a href="http://www.brownvillelyceum.com/">http://www.brownvillelyceum.com/</a>. Information can also be obtained by calling 402 825 4211 or writing PO Box 96 Brownville NE 68321.<br /></span><br />STAY TUNED here for further details, on Matt Mason's site,<br /><a href="http://www.poetrymenu.com/">http://www.poetrymenu.com/</a><br />as well as <a href="http://www.brownvillelyceum.com/">http://www.brownvillelyceum.com/</a><br />and <a href="http://www.moonreading.blogspot.com/">http://www.moonreading.blogspot.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com