(downtown) Omaha Lit Fest

Mark your calendars for (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest 2007!  I know, I should have this posted on a Wednesday during author events, but there are so many UNP authors involved that I felt that the festival needed a post of its own!  The festival takes place on September 14th and 15th.

On the (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest's website, there is a disclaimer about the malleability of the list, but it is rumored that the writers listed below will be in attendance:

Fiction and nonfiction writer Jonis Agee (her newest novel, The River Wife, was published by Random House.  Her novel Sweet Eyes is a UNP book)

John Price, author of the memoir Not Just Any Land

Fiction writer and editor of UNP books The Big Empty and A Different Plain, Ladette Randolph

Aaron Raz Link, co-memoirist of What Becomes You

Hilda Raz, editor of The Prairie Schooner, poet, and co-memoirist of What Becomes You

Editor of American Jewish Fiction, co-editor of Food and Judaism Gerald Shapiro will be there.  He also wrote the very funny short story collection Bad Jews and Other Stories.

Novelist Kellie Wells, author of Skin