All Writes Reserved

All Writes Reserved is the biggest youth spoken word poetry festival in the Midwest. Hundreds of students from dozens of high schools across Nebraska and western Iowa spend months writing, revising, and rehearsing original performance poetry. They then share their work with the community during a friendly tournament at the end of the event, performing individual and group pieces.

The program employs dozens of accomplished local poets and brings in poets from around the world to help with the event, providing paying work opportunities to help retain our more talented artists. It is run by the Nebraska Writers Collective, a 501(c)(3) non-profit devoted to promoting creative writing and performance poetry throughout the Midwest.