The Nebraska Writers Collective fosters self-empowerment and builds community through creative writing and performance poetry.
We offer interactive, workshop-based programming throughout the Midwest and provide paying work to more than 50 local writers and poets annually, helping to sustain and retain their talent right here in Nebraska.
Empowering Youth
We give young people a stage, spotlight, and microphone to showcase their feelings, ideas, and lived experiences. Our students find meaning in the volume of their voice, and the audience that falls quiet, leans in, and listens.
Creating Community
We think the best writing is done together, not apart. Our workshops, programs, and poetry events connect a vast network of writers from across the region, helping us build community by championing similarities, honoring differences, and making room to learn from both.
Encouraging Imagination
Change begins when we give ourselves permission to dream, to imagine brighter possibilities for ourselves and our community. We help writers capture their hope on paper, encouraging them to speak what once felt impossible into existence.
“…the NWC shows students that poetry is a living, breathing art…Students see that poems don't just ‘happen,’ but that they are written by real people. This helps students to recognize that they too can be—and already are—poets.”
- Tina Le, Core Teaching Artist, Lincoln
Questions About What We Do?
We want to hear from you! Use the contact form below and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!
Location
The NWC Offices are located at the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (6001 Dodge Street, CEC 117.13) on the University of Nebraska at Omaha campus.
Send Mail To
Nebraska Writers Collective
6001 Dodge Street, CEC 117.13
Omaha, NE 68182
Contact
Please feel free to contact us with your questions.
Email
info@newriters.org
Office Hours
Monday-Friday 9:00am-5:00pm