Jim Reese, an alum of WSC, will read at 2 p.m. in the Humanities Building, followed by the Fiction Slam at 7 p.m. at The Max.
Wayne State College alumnus Dr. Jim Reese, author of “Coming to a Neighborhood Near You: The Business and Repercussion of Crime and Punishment,” is the featured author in the next installment of Wayne State’s 2025-26 Plains Writers Series on Thursday, Dec. 4.
The reading, free and open to the public, will begin at 2 p.m. in the second-floor lounge of the Humanities Building at Wayne State. This event will be livestreamed on the Plains Writers Series Facebook page.
The Fiction Slam will follow the Plains Writers Series readings. The slam will be held at the Max Bar and Grill in downtown Wayne at 7 p.m., with registration starting at 6:30 p.m. Slam participants need to bring two original flash fiction stories and the $5 registration fee. All events are free and open to the public.
For more information about these events, visit the WSC Press website.
About Jim Reese
Jim Reese is an associate professor of English and director of the Great Plains Writers Tour at Mount Marty University in Yankton, S.D. He spent 14 years in residency for the National Endowment for the Arts’ interagency initiative with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, where he established Yankton Federal Prison Camp’s first creative writing and publishing workshop. He is the author of eight books, including the nonfiction collection “Bone Chalk,” and has received several awards for his writing and public service.
Reese earned is bachelor’s degree in English and Journalism from Wayne State College, his master of arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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.