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Please visit the 2020 Conference link above for detailed information about this years event, including schedules and presenter biographies. See you in Brookings April 4!

We’ll soon have information posted on the 2020 Great Plains Writers’ Conference, which will take place at the South Dakota State University campus in Brookings, SD on Saturday, April 4. We’ll bring in a couple of featured authors who got … Continue reading →

Due to worsening weather and campus closures tomorrow, we are cancelling ALL THE EVENTS associated with this year’s Great Plains Writers Conference.

The readings and book launches are free and open to the public, but we require registration for the workshops. Our registration deadline has been extended to midnight, March 25. Please email tiffani.pirner@sdstate.edu to register. Thanks.

The schedule for the 2018 Great Plains Writers’ Conference (March 23-25 in Brookings, SD) can be found at https://greatplainswritersconference.com/2018-conference/. We hope you’ll join us!

All morning and afternoon sessions will be held in the Hobo Day Gallery, located in the northwest corner of the SDSU Student Union. The 7 p.m. keynote address by Janet Murray will be held in the McCrory Garden educational center.

We are pleased to announce the 40th Annual Great Plains Writers Conference keynote speaker and date.  The conference theme is “The Role of the Humanities in the Digital Age: The GPWC at 40 Years.”  The conference will take place on Monday, March 21st, 2016, with writing-themed panels/workshops … Continue reading →

At GPWC we’ve aimed to start conversations and light fires in people, and there was plenty  of that at our 2015 iteration. Brookings was full of fired-up, energetic people who care. We couldn’t have asked for a better result (or … Continue reading →