Larksong is proud to host the September meeting of the Lincoln Warrior Writers Writing Group, featuring guest speaker Lucy Adkins.

The Nebraska Warrior Writers is a veterans' writing workshop made up of a community of writers from diverse backgrounds and levels of expertise who come together during a series of workshops to develop their work through free writing, peer workshopping, and revision, and to explore a variety of writing styles designed to expose them to a number of styles, genres, approaches, and forms.  Warrior Writers are veterans of the armed services, active military and members of their families who seek community-building through writing and share an earnest desire to improve their writing through practice, accountability, and feedback.  Our sessions provide time for writing, guided instruction, and peer feedback.  We provide a supportive environment for writers who seek the opportunity to develop and share stories, to be held accountable for producing work, and to explore both the process and the product of the written work with like-minded individuals.  

Lucy Adkins is a writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Her poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies, and her chapbooks include One Life Shining: Addie Finch Farmwife from Pudding House Press, and Two-Toned Dress, which was the winner of the 2019 Blue Light Press Poetry Prize. Her full-length collection of poetry, A Crazy Little Thing, will be forthcoming in the fall of 2021. Lucy’s fiction has appeared in the South Dakota Review and Voices From the Plains anthology. She has also co-authored a book of non-fiction, Writing in Community: Say Goodbye to Writer’s Block and Transform Your Life which was awarded an “Ippy” in the Independent Publisher’s Book Awards. A follow up to Writing in Community, The Fire Inside: A Companion for the Creative Life will be published in summer, 2021. Lucy, along with Becky Breed, co-author of Writing in Community and The Fire Inside were announced winners of the Lincoln 2020 Mayors Arts Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts. Her MFA in Creative Writing is from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has been a writing group and workshop leader for many years.

For additional information contact Tom Seib