The reading will take place at 2 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the Humanities Building, followed by the Fiction Slam at 7 p.m.
Wayne State College's Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the WSC Press are pleased to host the next installment of the 2024-25 Plains Writers Series, featuring Jim Daniels, on Thursday, May 1.
The reading, free and open to the public, will begin at 2 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the Humanities Building. This event will be livestreamed on the Plains Writers Series Facebook page.
Daniels’ reading will conclude the Plains Writers Series for the 2024-25 academic year.
The Fiction Slam will follow the Plains Writers Series reading. The slam will be held at 7 p.m. at the Max Bar and Grill in downtown Wayne. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m. for slam participants who need to bring two short fiction pieces and the $5 registration fee. The slam is also free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.wscpress.com.
About Jim Daniels
Jim Daniels’ six previous fiction collections have received many prizes, including a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, an Independent Publisher Book Award, a Midwest Book Award, a Michigan Notable Book of the Year Award, and a Finalist Award for the Paterson Fiction Prize.
Daniels has authored numerous poetry collections, four produced screenplays, and he has edited six anthologies, including “RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music.” He is the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. A native of Detroit, Daniels lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency Master of Fine Arts Program.
About the Plains Writers Series
The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year at Wayne State and has been an integral part of the college’s history since 1977. This reading series generally features Great Plains authors and artists in a one or two-day event that is free and open to the public. The Plains Writers Series brings attention to the prose and poetry of Great Plains writers through reading and interacting with area audiences.
The Plains Writers Series provides a forum for Nebraska’s contemporary writers and poets to share their work with Nebraska readers. The content of the project is literature, especially that of rural Nebraska. Literature will be the entire focus of the series throughout the day in the form of readings, questions and answer sessions, one-on-one conversations between the audience members, and the authors presenting their work. Following the readings, a poetry or fiction slam is held in downtown Wayne.
For more information about the Plains Writers Series, contact Chad Christensen, managing editor of the WSC Press and director of the Plains Writers Series, at [email protected] or 402-375-7118, or visit www.wscpress.com.