Your invitation to our Office Lounge Zoom meeting
...this new tradition begins tomorrow, October 28
To subscribers to the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative roundup:
You are invited to attend the first Office Lounge Zoom call with the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative. This new monthly tradition will begin on Friday, October 28, at noon. You only need to be a paid subscriber to one of the writers in the collaborative, or the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative column roundup, to participate. That said, we hope if you have the means, you support as many in our group as you can.
Blah, blah, blah. We are all so sick of money pitches. Here’s the deal. We are trying to figure out a way to provide ad-free commentary directly to readers.
During the Zoom Office Lounge call, each of our writers will take a minute to introduce themselves and talk about their columns and what to look forward to in the future. We will open it up to your questions, and Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger will emcee the discussion.
Our current roster is below. If you are not already a paid subscriber to any of us, please consider picking a columnist and joining the fun. You will be supporting a new movement.
Below are the members of the Iowa Writers Collaborative in alphabetical order. There is a lot of talent here. In addition to the writers below, our alliance partner, Kathie Obradovich, the Iowa Capital Dispatch editor-in-chief, will be on the call.
Laura Belin: Iowa Politics with Laura Belin, Windsor Heights
Doug Burns: The Iowa Mercury, Carroll
Dave Busiek: Dave Busiek on Media, Des Moines
Art Cullen: Art Cullen’s Notebook, Storm Lake
Suzanna de Baca Dispatches from the Heartland, Huxley
Debra Engle: A Whole New World, Madison County
Julie Gammack: Julie Gammack’s Iowa Potluck, Des Moines and Okoboji
Jody Gifford: Benign Inspiration, West Des Moines
Beth Hoffman: In the Dirt, Lovilla
Dana James: New Black Iowa, Des Moines
Robert Leonard: Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture, Bussey
Chuck Offenburger: Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger, Jefferson and Des Moines
Barry Piatt: Behind the Curtain, Washington, D.C.
Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Buggy Land, Kalona
*Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business, Boone County
Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi, Davenport
*Cheryl Tevis is our newest columnist. She is an ag journalist who lives in Boone County. The last line of her first column hints at what her column offers. Check it out! And meet her tomorrow.