·5-day, 20-hour writing workshop in Red Cloud, home of author Willa Cather
·For everyone, beginner to professional
·Experience the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, a 608-acre ecological gem of virgin mixed loess grassland
·Concludes with a public writers’ reception hosted by the Willa Cather Foundation on Friday night
·Artist in residence, Timothy Schaffert, author of The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters, winner of the Nebraska Book Award for fiction; The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God, Omaha Public Library’s selection for the city’s one-book-one-city project; Devils in the Sugar Shop, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.Timothy is the director of the Nebraska Summer Writers’ Conference, and a lecturer in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln English department, teaching courses in fiction writing, literature, and composition.He is also the founder and director of the (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest, which has received mention in the New York Times Style Magazine, the LA Times Travel section, and on C-SPAN.
