Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the WSC Press are pleased to hold this Fall’s Plains Writers Series on Thursday, December 4, 2025. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to highlight the prose and poetry of Great Plains writers through readings and interactions with area audiences.
This Plains Writers Series will feature WSC alum Jim Reese, author of Coming to a Neighborhood Near You—the Business and Repercussions of Crime and Punishment from Potomac Books, an imprint of University of Nebraska Press (Fall 2025). The reading will begin at 2 p.m. in the lounge on the second floor of the Humanities Building at Wayne State College.
Following the Plains Writers Series will be the Fiction Slam. The slam will be held at the Max Bar and Grill in downtown Wayne, NE, starting at 7:00 p.m., with registration from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Slam participants need two original flash fiction stories and a $5 registration fee. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, please go to wscpress.com.
ABOUT THE READER:
Jim Reese is an associate professor of English and director of the Great Plains Writers’ Tour at Mount Marty University in Yankton, South Dakota. He spent fourteen 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.
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