Special Events

In partnership with the Nebraska Writers Collective, we are delighted to invite writers of all backgrounds to join poet Karla Hernandez Torrijos for refreshments and a free workshop focused on place-based writing. Karla will lead participants in writing exercises that incorporate selections from My Ántonia as well as work by Thomas C. Gannon and Zitkala-Sa. Through these excerpts, contemporary writers will contemplate indigenous perspectives of place juxtaposed with late 19th century settlement culture. 

"The end is nothing, the road is all.” – Willa Cather, 'Old Mrs. Harris'

This program will be held in-person at the Newberry in partnership with the National Willa Cather Center.