Reading Time: < 1 minute A much-needed rainstorm threatened to intrude on this year’s writing marathon at the Benedictine Retreat Center near Schuyler, Nebraska. The magic of the marathon worked
Tag: Marathons
![2013 Kearney Marathon participants](https://www.nebraskawritingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013kearneymarathon.png)
Reading Time: 5 minutes Writers and Argentine Tango dancers from across Nebraska gathered at the Hilltop Mall in Kearney, Nebraska, to launch the Nebraska Writing Project’s 2013 Spring Writing
![Valentine High School students at Centennial Hall](https://www.nebraskawritingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/Participants2.jpg)
Reading Time: 2 minutes The call of fall brings the annual excursion of Ms. Knispel’s Expository Writing students to Centennial Hall. The variety of rooms ranging from “records” to
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Reading Time: 6 minutes On a warm day in April, fourteen Nebraska Writing Project writers gathered at the Hot Shops Art Center in Omaha for a Writing/Riding Marathon hosted
![Cale Prindle writing in Crescent Moon Coffee Shop](https://www.nebraskawritingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/Cale.jpg)
Reading Time: 5 minutes On a surprisingly pleasant January afternoon, writers were out in force, hopping from building to building and business to business and readily writing whatever the
![Platte River Writing Retreat Participants](https://www.nebraskawritingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/Jazz_hands.jpg)
Reading Time: 6 minutes Photos by Kate Brooke, Jeff Grinvalds, and Jason Hertz Teacher-writers (with their writing-friendly friends and family) descended once again on Platte River State Park for
![Writing Group standing by a cultivator](https://www.nebraskawritingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/Group_cultivation.jpg)
Reading Time: 5 minutes Who knew Holt County was so cool? Nebraska Writing Project Teacher Consultants Jennifer Troester, Brenda Larabee, Brian Mohr, and Katrina Cooksley-Gotschall did, but they still
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Students enrolled in Expository Writing at Valentine High School, accompanied by instructor Jan Knispel and Media Specialist Janell Stoeger, conducted a writing marathon at Centennial
![Writing Marathon Group](https://www.nebraskawritingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/Group-2.jpg)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Warm weather and yet another world-class potluck graced the weekend of the Nebraska Writing Project’s Third Annual Platte River Writing Retreat and Marathon on September
![Writers Reading around a Table](https://www.nebraskawritingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/ReadAround_Gotschall.jpg)
Reading Time: 4 minutes On a chilly January afternoon, twenty-three writers met at the Sheldon Art Museum at the University of Nebraska Lincoln to continue a now annual tradition–the