NWC Spotlight: Stacey Waite
Every Friday we’re going to introduce you to one of the wonderful Teaching Artists, staff members, and students that help the NWC promote creative writing and performance poetry throughout the Midwest....
View ArticleNWC Spotlight: Dan Leamen
About Dan Dan Leamen has been a friend and champion of the NWC for years now, and is just a genuinely great person. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MSc in English Language and Linguistics...
View ArticleNWC Spotlight: Greg Harries
Greg Harries has done a lot of everything for the NWC, including working as a Teaching Artist for Louder Than a Bomb teams. He’s also an outstanding artist in multiple fields and recently won the Best...
View ArticleLouder Than a Bomb featured in the Omaha World Herald
The Omaha World Herald published an excellent article about Louder Than a Bomb and Poetry Out Loud. Many thanks to the writer Carol Bicak for giving readers a taste of the importance of these two...
View ArticleNWC Spotlight: Andrew Ek
Andrew Ek isn’t just the NWC’s Education Director, he’s also a Teaching Artist, an outstanding poet, a professor of computer science, and the nicest person you will ever spend time with. Andrew has...
View ArticleNWC Spotlight: Ruth Kohtz
Ruth Kohtz is a writer and performer from Lincoln, Nebraska who serves as one of the NWC’s Teaching Artists. She earned a degree in Theatre Arts from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota and...
View ArticleIt’s time for the 2014 Louder Than a Bomb Tournament!
Louder Than a Bomb: Great Plains students have been working with Teaching Artists from the Nebraska Writers Collective for months on original poetry. Now they’re ready to share it with you. Preliminary...
View ArticleNWC Spotlight: Thomas Sibbitt
Thom received his BFA in drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Thom went on to spend 10 years living in New York City working in almost every area of stage, television, and film....
View ArticleNWC Seeks Deputy Director
The NWC is staffing up and looking for a Deputy Director. This is a full-time position with flexible hours (heavier in the spring but lighter in the summer and early fall, with 40-hour weeks on...
View ArticleCongratulations Lincoln North Star, 2015 LTAB Winners!
It was a great show at the Holland Center, with Skutt Catholic, Millard South, Lincoln HS and Lincoln North Star thrilling the room. In the end, North Star won over the judges, though all four teams...
View ArticleNWC Expanding Work in Nebraska Prisons!
The NWC is proud to be doing more work in prisons thanks to amazing work by Core Teaching Artist Nicholas Bell. Nicholas talks about his work here: “Today at the women’s prison, some of the inmates...
View ArticleCongratulations Lincoln North Star, 2015 LTAB Winners!
It was a great show at the Holland Center, with Skutt Catholic, Millard South, Lincoln HS and Lincoln North Star thrilling the room. In the end, North Star won over the judges, though all four teams...
View ArticleWant to Volunteer with NWC?
We Can’t Do it Without You Each year the Nebraska Writers Collective serves thousands of people in the Midwest and provides paying jobs for talented local artists that help keep them in your community....
View ArticleTeaching Artist Spotlight – Brittany Young
This space is where we get the opportunity to shine the light on the talented core teaching artists who share their art and their passion for poetry with the community. Our programs wouldn’t be as...
View ArticleWriters’ Block Brings Poetry to Prisons
NWC Expanding Work in Nebraska Prisons! The NWC is proud to be doing more work in prisons thanks to amazing work by Core Teaching Artist Nicholas Bell. Nicholas talks about his work here: “Today at the...
View ArticleTeaching Artist Spotlight – Nicholas Bell
This space is where we get the opportunity to shine the light on the talented core teaching artists who share their art and their passion for poetry with the community. Our programs wouldn’t be as...
View ArticleTeaching Artist Spotlight – Stacey Waite
This space is where we get the opportunity to shine the light on the talented core teaching artists who share their art and their passion for poetry with the community. Our programs wouldn’t be as...
View ArticleTeaching Artist Spotlight – Devel Crisp
This space is where we get the opportunity to shine the light on the talented core teaching artists who share their art and their passion for poetry with the community. Our programs wouldn’t be as...
View ArticleNWC Taking Applications for Part-Time Development Associate
[PLEASE NOTE WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THIS POSITION] Looking for some part-time work? The NWC needs a Development Associate to help out for a few hours each week, with potential for...
View ArticleNWC Taking Applications for Part-Time Communications Associate
[PLEASE NOTE WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THIS POSITION] Looking for some part-time work? The NWC needs a Development Associate to help out for a few hours each week, with potential...
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