Community Engagement

The Writer’s Workshop Around Town

Numerous community partnerships extend the Writer’s Workshop classroom.

Across the UNO campus:

• 13th Floor Magazine, a literary journal completely edited and published by students of the Writer’s Workshop.
• Writer’s Workshop faculty are featured guests on “Required Reading,” a UNO Television series that showcases faculty authors.
• With KVNO Radio, the Writer’s Workshop produces “Writer’s Workshop on the Air,” presenting the Writer’s Workshop Reading Series and interviews with nationally acclaimed writers.
• Writer’s Workshop faculty are invited instructors of “Autobiographical Reading and Writing,” the gateway course for Thompson Learning Community scholars.

Across the city of Omaha:

• “PROCESS: Creativity At Work" - In collaboration with KANEKO Creativity Library, the Writer’s Workshop presents a series of panel discussions that bring together professionals from a wide range of disciplines to explore the creative process.
• • At the Pizza Shoppe in Benson, students and community members participate in Prose Slams.
  • At El Museo Latino, the first Latino Art & History Museum and Cultural Center in the Midwest, the Writer’s Workshop presents a series of public readings.
  • • In collaboration with Film Streams, the Writer’s Workshop is developing a course of study in Screenwriting.

A UNO Writer's Workshop student competing in a prose slam at the Pizza Shoppe.