The reading begins at 2 p.m. in the Humanities Building. The Fiction Slam will follow 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 final installment of the 2025-26 Plains Writers Series, featuring Lydia Kang on Thursday, April 30.
The reading, free and open to the public, will begin at 2 p.m. in the second-floor lounge of the Humanities Building.
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.
About Lydia Kang
Lydia Kang is an associate professor of internal medicine and an award-winning and bestselling author of adult fiction, young adult fiction, and science non-fiction, including “Opium and Absinthe,” “Star Wars: Cataclysm,” and the Nebraska Book Award winners, “The November Girl” and “Patient Zero.”
Kang’s nonfiction includes “Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything,” an NPR Science Friday Best Book. She is the author of the recently released “Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them (Workman Publishing)” and “K-Jane (Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins),” a Kirkus Best Book of 2025.
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 the WSC Press website.