Here's your chance to talk to Iowa Writers Collaborative columnists

Paid subscribers can join an "Office Lounge" conversation via Zoom Friday noon.

The Iowa Writers Collaborative columnists cordially invite you to share your thoughts about their work, or other topics of interest, at their monthly “Office Lounge” conversation via Zoom at noon Friday.

This is a perk for paid subscribers. If you’re not a paid subscriber, we invite you to become one, to one or more of the 60-some columnists in our group. It’s an eclectic group of journalists, authors, educators and others who write about a wide variety of topics,some of which are sure to catch your interest.

The “Office Lounge” Zoom call, so named after a favorite watering hole of former Des Moines Register news staffers in downtown Des Moines, is offered at noon on the last Friday of every month.

If you’re a paid subscriber, or contemplating subscribing, we look forward to seeing and hearing from you Friday noon. Below is a list of the columnists. We’re sure you will recognize many of them and one or more may catch your interest. You can click on their links to sample their work at no cost. If you are now or become a paid subscriber, the Zoom link to Fridays “Office Lounge” call is at the bottom, below the columnists list.

And as the Bartles & Jaymes folks used to say on their commercials, as always, we thank you for your support! Hope to see you Friday!

IOWA WRITERS’ COLLABORATIVE COLUMNISTS

Nicole Baart: This Stays Here, Sioux Center

Rekha Basu: Shousts and whispers, Des Moines

Ray Young Bear: From Red Earth Drive, Meskwaki Settlement

Laura Belin: Iowa Politics with Laura Belin, Windsor Heights

Tory Brecht: Brecht’s Beat, Quad Cities

Dartanyan L. Brown: My Integrated Live, Des Moines

Douglas Burns: The Iowa Mercury, Carroll

Jane Burns: The Crossover, Des Moines

Dave Busiek: Dave Busiek on Media, Des Moines

Rachelle Chase : Reading with Rachelle, Ottumwa

Iowa Writers Collaborative: Roundup

Steph C: It Was Never a Dress, Johnston

Art Cullen: Art Cullen’s Notebook, Storm Lake

Suzanna de Baca: Dispatches from the Heartland, Huxley

Taylor Deckert : Taylor’s Millennial Mindset, Sioux City

Debra Engle: A Whole New World, Madison County

Randy Evans: Stray Thoughts, Des Moines via Bloomfield

Daniel P. Finney: Paragraph Stacker, Des Moines

Marianne Fons: Reporting From Quiltropolis, Winterset

Arnold Garson: Second Thoughts, Okoboji and Sioux Falls

Julie Gammack: Julie Gammack’s Iowa Potluck, Des Moines and Okoboji

Dennis Goldford: Let’s Talk Politics, Clive

Avery Gregurich: The Five and Dime, Marengo

Fern Kupfer and Joe Geha: Fern and Joe, Ames

Rob Gray's Area: Rob Gray’s Area, Ankeny

Nik Heftman: The Seven Times, Iowa

Beth Hoffman: In the Dirt, Lovilla

Phoebe Wall Howard : Shifting Gears, Detroit,

Iowa Capital Dispatch, an alliance with IWC

Iowa Podcasters' Collaborative

Iowa Writers Collaborative Roundup Sunday Roundup

Black Iowa News: Dana James, Iowa

Chris Jones: Chris’s Substack, Iowa City

Pat Kinney: View from the Cedar Valley, Waterloo

Robert Leonard: Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture, Bussey

Letters From Iowans

Darcy Maulsby: Keepin’ It Rural, Calhoun County

Hola Iowa: Iowa

Alison McGaughey: The Inquisitive Quad Citizen, Quad Cities

Kurtis Meyer: Showing Up, St. Ansgar

Relatively Minor: by Vicki Minor, Winterset

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

Ty Rushing: Coming Soon, Iowa City

Steve Semken: Ice Cube Press, LLC, North Liberty

Macey Shofroth: The Midwest Creative, Norwalk

Larry Stone: Listening to the Land, Elkader

Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Buggy Land, Kalona

Mary Swander's Emerging Voices: Emerging Voices, Kalona

Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business, Boone County

Bill Tubbs : Impressions, Eldridge

Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi, Davenport

Jason Walsmith: The Racontourist, Earlham

Kali White VanBaale: 988: Mental Healthcare in Iowa, Bondurant

Teresa Zilk: Talking Good, Des Moines

Iowa Writers Collaborative also has a relationship with Iowa Capital Dispatch