Fall 2025 Writer's Workshop Reading Series
We welcome you to the Fall 2025 Reading Series! It's a great line up of author's and writer's to inspire. All events are free and open to the public.
Hope Wabuke | Wed | Sept 17
TLC Talk & Workshop
2:30-3:30 P.M.
CPACS 132/132B
Reading
7:30 P.M.
Samual Bak Museum
2289 S 67th St. Omaha
Hope is the author of TheBody Family, as well as several chapbooks: Movement No.1: Trains, The Leaving, and her. Her second full-length collection, Blood on the Leaves, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2026. Her creative and critical work has been published in Guernica, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salamander Literary Journal and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women Writers. She is a Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Eileen Myles | Wed | Oct 8
Open Classroom Visit
1:00-2:00 P.M.
CPACS 132/132B
Reading
7:30 P.M.
Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom
Eileen (them/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist and art journalist as well as teacher whose practice of vernacular first-person writing across genres has literally changed the game. They are the author of 25 books, including Chelsea Girls and a selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice. Myles has shown their photographs at Bridget Donahue in New York and in Provincetown, MA at Schoolhouse Gallery and in various international public installations. In 2019 Myles wrote and directed a super-8 puppet road film, “The Trip” (Youtube) and their most recent books are Pathetic Literature, and a “Working Life”, poems. They live in New York and Marfa, Texas.
Jonathan Lethem | Wed | Nov 5 | 7:30 P.M. | MBSC Ballroom
Jonathan is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. The “bard of Brooklyn” (LitHub) is the author of more than a dozen books—including the much-lauded novels The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was adapted into a full-length film. He is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2021, Lethem was named a Library Lion by the New York Public Library, an honor that recognizes individuals who make significant cultural and educational contributions. He holds an honorary doctorate by the Pratt Institute and is the second-ever Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing at Pomona College, succeeding David Foster Wallace. Lethem’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Esquire, New York Times, TheParis Review, The Believer, Granta, and McSweeney’s. He also served as a guest director at the 45th Telluride Film Festival.
Nebraska Film Initiative | Wed | Nov 19 | 7:30 P.M. | Benson Theatre, 6054 Maple St. Omaha
Short films by MJ Atyai and Sam Dubas, produced by the Nebraska Film Initiative with support by BeWildReWild.org
MJ, also known as Kamari, is a screenwriter currently residing in Omaha. They graduated from UNO with a degree in Journalism, Creative Media concentration, and minored in screenwriting and Black Studies. They have worked on two film sets and are excited to continue working in the film industry and explore different roles. Outside of screenwriting, they are a photographer and dungeon master for a wonderful D&D party.
Born and raised in Bellevue, Sam is currently pursuing a Bachelors Degree at UNO. He has recently begun pursuing writing as a more defined role for his career, and is actively working toward a minor in screenwriting.
The Reading Series is supported by the Omaha Public Library. Find books by these writers at OPL under, “Omaha Picks: UNO Reading Series.” Need an OPL library card? You can sign up for an OPL account at our events.