Tuesdays with Writers

at the South Mill, 48th and Prescott, Lincoln:

February 7th at 7pm:

Deola A. Thompson, and the WRITE STUFF writing group

The "Write Stuff" writing group is a generational writing group meeting once a month in Lincoln -- members of the group reading tonite include:
Eileen Durgin-Clinchard, Amy Plettner, Lucy Adkins, Carole Barnes-Montgomery, Nancy Savery, Ardiss Cederholm, Suzanne Yelkin, Linda Stringham, Deb Walz, Anna Jamrog, Rex Walton, Cathy Maasdam, Marge Saiser, and Marilyn Dorf

Deola Morrell-Thompson is a PH.D. student, formerly completing her Bachelor of Science in Speech/Theatre, Bachelor of Arts in English, and Master of Arts in English w/ a Creative Writing Emphasis at the University of NE at Kearney. She has written a collection of poetic works entitled The Beggar’s Wheel, which includes formal poetry exploring the structures of the sestina, villanelle, pantoum, and sonnet. Her work, Burial Societies, a response sestina to Washington Irving’s English Sketches, is published in The Reynolds Review. Her current interest is 19 c. Literature Studies, with a focus on American writers. She plans to complete her Historical Fiction piece based on Stephen Crane’s visit to NE incorporating research of the families, towns, and experiences he encountered here in the late 1800’s.

APRIL - Marge Saiser, Lucy Adkins, and Pam Barger


MARJORIE SAISER is a poet living in Lincoln, Nebraska. She received an MA in creative writing at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, winning the Vreelands Award and the Academy of American Poets competition. Her work has been published in literary journals including  Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, Zone 3, CrazyHorse, and Cream City Review. Her poems have been finalists for the Robert Penn Warren Prize, the New Letters Literary Awards, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a 2000 recipient of the Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council and in 1999 received the Literary Heritage Award from the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association. Saiser is a speaker for the Nebraska Humanities Council. Her first full-length collection, Bones of a Very Fine Hand, won the Nebraska Book Award for poetry in 2000. Her second book, Lost in Seward County, was published in 2001 by Backwaters Press, 3502 N 52nd St, Omaha, NE 68104, and is available there or from Lee Booksellers 888-665-0999. She is co-editor ofTimes of Sorrow, Times of Grace (Backwaters Press, 2002), an anthology of poetry and prose by women of the Great Plains, which was named Poetry Honor Book in 2003 by the Nebraska Center for the Book, and also co-editor of a book of interviews, Road Trip: Conversations with Writers(Backwaters Press, 2003). Her most recent collection isBeside You at the Stoplight (The Backwaters Press, 2010)

LUCY ADKINS grew up on a farm in Nance County, Nebraska, attended country schools, the University of Nebraska, and received her bachelors degree at Auburn University in Alabama. Her poetry has been published in journals which include Owen Wister Review, Nebraska Territory, Plainsongs, Potpourri, Northeast, South Dakota Review, and the anthologies Woven on the Wind (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace (The Backwaters Press, 2002), The Poets Against the War, edited by Sam Hamill (2003), and Crazy Woman Creek. Lucy lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she works at an insurance company and besides writing, spends a great deal of time on hands and knees in her garden.



A Lincolnite, Pam Barger holds a degree in music from UNL. She is
a poet, a piano teacher, and a musician. Her work has appeared
in Platte Valley Review, Nebraska Territory, West Branch, Weber
Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal and other publications as well. She is working on several projects; the first is a
book for middle and high school music students called (at least
for now) You Can Have Music AND a Life and the second is the
revision of a poetry manuscript entitled This Deliberate Theft of
Silence. Because she really enjoys both writing and music, Pam
finds that music is a recurring theme in her writing. She also has published a book of poetry, "The Pinball God Let Fly"

May ... Jen Davis Korn, Deborah McGinn, Karla Decker and Becky Faber 

Jen Davis-Korn

Jennifer was first set free to write whatever she wanted by her third grade teacher Mrs. Kruse. Ever since then, she's been lucky enough to land a string of great teachers, like Deborah McGinn, and mentors, like Rex Walton, to encourage and coax her writing whims into their present fiction state. She is fortunate to have earned the trust of the good people of Tuesdays With Writers where she has made a nice and comfortable writing home. Now she promises to bring you danger, excitement, and thrills with a sampling from her collection of chapters from a long work titled "Parks and Recreation."


Poet DEBORAH T MCGINN has been published in The Iowa Review, Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, The Poets Voice, Plains Song Review,  Poetic Voices, Free Focus Nebraska English Journal, New York City, Fine Lines, Whole Notes, Celebrate, Lincoln Review, Richmond Award in Poetry, The South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook Self Unbound, To Go From Privacy.

Becky Faber has been writing since the 20^th Century.  Her poems have appeared in Small Brushes (forthcoming), So to Speak, The Blue Collar Review, The Plains Songs Review, Plainsongs, the Nebraska English Counselor, and the anthologies Nebraska Voices and Lyrical Iowa.  In 1987 she won first place in the Poetry division of the Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest, and in 2003 placed second in the same division.  She placed second in the 2003 Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest in the Short Story category and went on to win second in national competition.   She earned a PhD in English from UNL.

Karla Decker was born in Greeley, Colorado a million years ago. She has no memory of living in Omaha for about six months before the age of two though her picture appeared in the Omaha World Herald feeding a lollipop to her grandfather’s German Shepard. By age two she made her home in Wisconsin. She became enamored of Abstract Expressionism and majored in art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There she became enamored of the young writers on campus and married one of them and moved to Minneapolis and then back to Omaha. She divorced the writer and moved to Lincoln. Three gorgeous daughters and a passion for writing came out of this marriage. Her publishing history is skimpy. At Marilyn Dorf’s urging she entered the Bess Streeter Aldrich contest last year and won 2nd place. She was July in the first issue of the Nebraska Poets calendar. That’s about it.