Six Corners of Nebraska
A Signature Event
Of The Nebraska Sesquicentennial Commission
Six Corners of
Nebraska is the Nebraska Writers Guild’s gift to all Nebraskans celebrating our
150 years of Statehood. It consists of a series of six events - one near each
of Nebraska's six corners - Chadron (Northwest), Norfolk (Northeast), Bellevue
(Southeast), McCook (Southwest), North Platte (Big Springs Corner), and Kimball
(Panhandle Southwest). These occur one per month, on the first Sunday of each
month, March through August.
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SIX CORNERS OF NEBRASKA – NORTHWEST
Chadron Public
Library
507 Bordeaux Street
Chadron, NE
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March 5, 2017
12:30
pm – 5:00 pm
12:30 pm Readings by Nebraska Authors
(including Dr.
Bob McEwen of Chadron)
1:30 pm Big
Horse Woman by Barbara Salvatore
2:30 pm Readings by
Nebraska Authors
(including Poe
Ballantine of Chadron )
3:30 pm Excess Baggage: Riding the Orphan Train by Charlotte
Endorf
4:30
pm “Future
Great Writers of Nebraska”
Awards
and Reading (contest for ages 13-25)
Other
Opportunities:
12:00 – 5:00 Nebraska authors will be
available at tables to personally visit with the public
1:00 – 5:00 Dr. Laura Madeline Wiseman will facilitate –
“Write What You Feel: A Prose and Poetry
Workshop on Writing Emotions”
Pre-registration
encouraged/12 participant maximum
(this is the only
part of Six Corners of Nebraska – Northwest that is not free)
(the cost is
$50.00)
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Big Horse Woman
As a young girl, Water Willow rescues a drowning
colt during a flash flood of the Missouri River, and she is given a
new name, Big Horse Woman. Big Horse grows bigger than any horse the Ponca
have ever seen. Years later, Big Horse Woman and Big Horse return to the
Niobrara village her tribe abandoned, where she’d lost her family to smallpox.
They approach the ridge only to discover a stranger has taken up
residence near their sacred burial grounds.
Barbara Salvatore studied Fine
Art at Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons School of Design, and the School
of Visual Arts, NYC, where she completed her BFA in Painting and Drawing. Her
art and writing have been published in 'Plains Song Review,' 'Small Farm
Journal,' 'United Plant Savers News' and numerous literary journals. Her
manuscript, 'Other People’s Ghosts, A Collection of Spirits,' was awarded
Honorable Mention in the 2010 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest, and was a
Finalist in Orpheus Theater’s New Playwright Contest in 2011. 'Big Horse
Woman,' a historical fiction novel about a Ponca woman born near the Niobrara
River in 1833, was a Finalist in the 2009 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest and was recently named Finalist
in Chanticleer Review’s Laramie Prize for Western Fiction. Until August
of 2015, Barbara served as the Ponca Language Educator for the Ponca Tribe of
Nebraska, delivering curriculum to students aged 5 -16, and community members
of all ages, using Ponca stories, art activities, performance, and games. Barbara
is a strong advocate for the language; what it means to the people and why it
is so important to retain native language as the core element of cultural
preservation and identity.
Excess Baggage: Riding the Orphan Train
Charlotte
Endorf traveled more than 15,000 miles, seeking the last surviving riders and
descendants to document the real-life stories of the children who rode the
Orphan Trains between the years 1854 and 1929. Dressed in period
attire, she entertains and educates audiences of all ages about this
little known Nebraska history. She found she was related to an Orphan
Train rider after thousands of miles of speaking about the subject. Could
you be too? Charlotte wrote four books, produced two DVDs and a CD about
this subject. She took an actual 94-year-old Orphan Train rider to
New York City to open her records that dated back to 1917. The
rider, who lived to be 100, traveled about 100,000 miles with her as she
spoke. She was one of the last of the Orphan Train riders Charlotte
knew, and is sorry to note that she died in 2014.
Charlotte
Endorf is a
lifelong Nebraskan. As a member of Toastmasters International she earned the
Distinguished Toastmaster award twice. She specializes in speaking to
elementary schools, women’s groups, museums, town festivals, senior centers,
nursing homes and libraries throughout Nebraska, accurately describing the
story of the platform girls of the Canteen, Annie Oakley and the Orphan Train.
Charlotte and her daughter, Sarah, have published ten books. She has developed
three documentaries that keep history alive and a CD with an actual Orphan
Train rider after they made a trip to New York City to uncover her records
dating back to 1917. She was selected as Nebraska’s 2011 Mother of the Year.
She is an avid reader and enjoys listening to books on CD while she journeys in
every direction, thousands of miles each year—to share her stories. Charlotte
and her husband Kevin started the second Little Free Library in Nebraska in
their own front yard. It is one of the largest in the nation and one of the few
that includes an active Culture Club.
“Write What You Feel: A
Prose and Poetry Workshop on Writing Emotions”
Together we will engage in guided writing
experiments and exercises for generating new work, discuss published work as
guide and inspiration, and explore issues of craft, genre, and audience on this
topic. We’ll consider these questions and more: How do our emotions influence
and shape the stories we tell? Why are we drawn to particular emotional threads,
but shy away from others? How does word choice, sentence structure, dialogue,
content, or pace create mood? What alternative tones might we imagine in our
work and what results when we reimagine? How do we ground emotions in
experiences that resonate with our readers? This is a generative and supportive
workshop designed to push ourselves to think deeply, foster the development of
new directions, and find inspiration in the emotions that move us. At the end
of the day, we will have the opportunity to submit the best of the new work
written during the workshop. Within a week, the instructor will email a note of
detailed feedback on the submission.
Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of over two-dozen
books and chapbooks and the editor of Women Write Resistance, selected for the
Nebraska 150 Book List. Her collaborative book Intimates and Fools is a
Nebraska Book Award 2015 Honor Book. Her latest book is Velocipede (Stephen F.
Austin State University Press, 2016). She teaches writing and women’s and gender studies at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Call or email: Wayne Anson, (308)
227-3221, wayne.anson@gmail.com
To register for the Writers
Workshop or explore the Nebraska Writers Guild: nebraskawriters.org
A Non-Profit 501(c)3 Corporation, the
Nebraska Writers Guild, Inc., is a professional association for writers of all
disciplines, literary agents, educators, publishers, librarians, and youth who
are interested in promoting the craft of writing in Nebraska. The organization
offers aspiring writers, award winning authors, and everyone in between a
network for improving their craft.
Founded
in 1925, NWG is one of the oldest continuous writers' organizations in the
country. It counts among its charter members Bess Streeter Aldrich, Dorothy
Canfield Fisher, John G. Neihardt, Louise Pound, Mari Sandoz, and A.E. Sheldon
(chair of the Nebraska State Historical Society). Residing in New York, Willa
Cather was one of the first members to sign up. In its first year, two members of the guild were included
in the Saturday Review of Literature's list of the ten writers most
representative of American life. Yes, these are hallowed halls and we have
incredible respect for our past ... and enthusiasm for our future.
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