Casper College Literary Conference Digital Archives
2025
The 39th annual Casper College Literary Conference is titled "Passion and Persistence." The goal for this literary conference is to show what it takes to write a book, and explore the process of seeing a project through the whole process, even through bumps and forks in the road. Featured authors include David Wright Faladé, Kai Carlson-Wee, and Case Day Rislov. The 2025 Casper College Literary Conference is directed by Casper College English professor David Zoby. Along with workshops, two student moderated book clubs will take place. David Wright Faladé's The New Internationals will be moderated by English major Eddie Siebert, and Kai Carlson-Wee's RAIL, a collection of poetry, will be moderated by Tiana Stover.
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The New Internationals is a historical fiction by author and guest of the literary conference, David Wright Faladé. The New Internationals is one of two books being discussed at a student moderated book club with the author. The discussion will be moderated by Casper College English major Eddie Siebert. This title is also available at the Goodstein Foundation Library.
Discussion questions written by the moderator:
1. As people observing or being apart of young adult culture, how similar are the main character's culture to young adult culture in our current era?
2. Although this novel takes place in 1940s France, how similar or different is their political climate compared to ours now?
Eddie Siebert reading the back cover of The New Internationals
RAIL is a collection of poetry by author and guest of the literary conference, Kai Carlson-Wee. RAIL is one of two books being discussed at a student moderated book club with the author. The discussion will be moderated by Casper College student Tiana Stover. This title is also available at the Goodstein Foundation Library.
2023
“Wilderness” was the theme for the 37th annual Casper College Literary Conference. The 2023 Literacy Conference Director was English Instructor David Zoby. The digital archives for this year's conference contains a copy of the print zine made possible by Casper College students Rayna Januska (Graphic Design), Zoe Von Gunten (English), and Devon King (Photography).
A zine made by Casper College students Rayna Januska (Graphic Design), Zoe Von Gunten (English) and Devon King (Photography) for the 2023 Casper College Literary Conference. This years conference was directed by David Zoby. Speakers included Elizabeth Bradfield, Christine Peterson, Rich Chiappone, and Natalie Behring. The zine contains a cover photo by Devon King, an introduction by Hanz Olson, a reflective essay by Zoe Von Gunten, copies of Shakespeare's sonnets annotated by Margaret Demorest, correspondence and a photo from the Tom Hough Papers. The overall zine was designed and printed by Rayna Januska.
Added by UW/CC Wildlife Biology Major Hannah Baldwin
2022
In the spirit of the 2022 Literary Conference and Natalie Behring's zine making workshop, we wanted to add Antlerphile by Zoby and Behring as a source of diving into wilderness and finding inspiration to write and create. The following are pages from a zine created by Zoby and Behring that documents the May 1st Opening Day of antler shed season in Wyoming.
