Come haunt the Office Lounge Friday

Iowa Writers Collaborative columnists await you -- if you dare subscribe!

Come penetrate the ethereal ether for an online Zoom call with the denizens of the Iowa Writers Collaborative at noon Friday, Oct. 25.

It’s our monthly “Office Lounge” conference call, named for a downtown Des Moines watering hole frequented by Des Moines Register and Tribune staffers. The establishment has gone to its eternal reward but still lives on in the hearts of those who haunted it in days of yore.

The monthly conference call is a perk to PAID subscribers of Iowa Writers Collaborative columnists. If you are a paid subscriber, thank you. If you read columnists now as free subscribers or occasional browsers, please consider subscribing if you like our work.,

Also, if you want to see the full lineup of columnists, they are listed below for your perusal. Click on their links, sample their work and consider becoming a paid subscriber.

A link to the Office Lounge Zoom call is below a paywall at the bottom of the list. It you subscribe, the veil of the paywall will be lifted and you can click on the link and join in the fun.

It’s a chance to give the columnist a piece of your mind and find out what’s on theirs. It should be stimulating, not spooky.

Hope to see you there!
The Iowa Writers’ Collaborative

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Laura Belin: Iowa Politics with Laura Belin, Windsor Heights

Doug Burns: The Iowa Mercury, Carroll

Dave Busiek: Dave Busiek on Media, Des Moines

Iowa Writers’ Collaborative, Roundup

Steph Copley: It Was Never a Dress, Johnston

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

Joe Geha: Fern and Joe, Ames

Jody Gifford: Benign Inspiration, West Des Moines

Rob Gray: Rob Gray’s Area, Ankeny

Nik Heftman: The Seven Times, Los Angeles and Iowa

Beth Hoffman: In the Dirt, Lovilla

Dana James: New Black Iowa, Des Moines

Pat Kinney: View from the Cedar Valley, Waterloo

Fern Kupfer: Fern and Joe, Ames

Robert Leonard: Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture, Bussey

Letters from Iowans, Iowa

Tar Macias: Hola Iowa, Iowa

Alison McGaughey, The Inquisitive Quad Citizen, Quad Cities

Kurt Meyer: Showing Up, St. Ansgar

Wini Moranville: Wini’s Food Stories, Des Moines

Jeff Morrison: Between Two Rivers, Cedar Rapids

Kyle Munson: Kyle Munson’s Main Street, Des Moines

Jane Nguyen: The Asian Iowan, West Des Moines

John Naughton: My Life, in Color, Des Moines

Chuck Offenburger: Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger, Jefferson and Des Moines

Barry Piatt: Piatt on Politics Behind the Curtain, Washington, D.C.

Dave Price: Dave Price’s Perspective, Des Moines

Macey Spensley: The Midwest Creative, Iowa

Larry Stone: Listening to the Land, Elkader

Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Buggy Land, Kalona

Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Emerging Voices, Kalona

Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business, Boone County

Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi, Davenport

Teresa Zilk: Talking Good, Des Moines

The Iowa Writers Collaborative is also proud to ally with Iowa Capital Dispatch.