Please join the Iowa Writers Collaborative “Office Lounge” discussion at noon Friday

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”Jefferson’s idea of freedom of the press wasn’t to have a bunch of political eunuchs running around.”
—I.F. Stone, interview with the author, 1979

The Iowa Writers Collaborative hosts an “Office Lounge” online discussion via Zoom between paid subscribers and columnists on the last Friday of every month at noon. The next one is noon Friday, Feb. 28. A link for paid subscribers to join the discussion is below the paywall at the bottom of this column. All paid subscribers are invited, and free subscribers are invited to become paid subscribers and join the discussion.

The collaborative is now made up of more than 70 writers from various fields and areas of interest.

Here’s the lineup. The paywall with the link is below that.
The Office Lounge is a great way to finish your week by browsing in the marketplace of ideas.

The Iowa Writers’ Collaborative

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Des Moines Metro

• Chip Albright: Chip Happens, Des Moines

• Rekha Basu: Shouts and Whispers, Des Moines

• Dartanyan L. Brown: My Integrated Life, Des Moines

• Jane Burns: The Crossover, Des Moines

• Dave Busiek: Dave Busiek on Media, Des Moines

• Randy Evans: Stray Thoughts, Des Moines via Bloomfield

• Christina Fernández-Morrow: Hola Iowa, Des Moines

• Daniel P. Finney: Paragraph Stacker, Des Moines

• Julie Gammack: Iowa Potluck, Des Moines and Okoboji

• Dennis Goldford: Let’s Talk Politics, Clive

• Rob Gray: Rob Gray’s Area, Ankeny

• Maxwell Schaeffer: Maxwell’s Voice, Ankeny

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

• Wini Moranville: Wini’s Food Stories, Des Moines

• Jane Nguyen: The Asian Iowan, West Des Moines

• Dave Price: Dave Price’s Perspective, Des Moines

• Teresa Zilk: Talking Good, Des Moines

• Kali White VanBaale: Mind the Gap, Bondurant

• John Naughton: My Life in Color, Des Moines

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North Central

• Suzanna de Baca: Dispatches from the Heartland, Huxley

• Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business, Boone County

• Fern Kupfer and Joe Geha: Fern and Joe, Ames

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Northwest

• Chad Elliott: Iowa’s Renaissance Man, Jefferson

• Chuck Offenburger: Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger, Jefferson

• Art Cullen: Art Cullen’s Notebook, Storm Lake

• Joan Zwagerman: Nuts and Bolts, Storm Lake

• Nicole Baart: This Stays Here, Sioux Center

• Taylor Decker: Taylor’s Millennial Mindset, Sioux City

• Arnold Garson: Second Thoughts, Okoboji

• David Thoreson: Northwest Passages, Okoboji

• Douglas Burns: The Iowa Mercury, Carroll

• Darcy Maulsby: Keepin’ It Rural, Calhoun County

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Northeast

• Hannah Breckbill: Humble Hands Harvest, Decorah

• Kurtis Meyer: Showing Up, St. Ansgar

• Larry Stone: Listening to the Land, Elkader

• Pat Kinney: View from the Cedar Valley, Waterloo

• John Crabtree: Though the Heavens Fall, Oelwein

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East

• Nina Elkadi: Corn Belt Confidential, Iowa City

• Chris Jones: The Swine Republic, Iowa City

• Michael Judge: The First Person, Iowa City

• Zachary Oren Smith: Cornhole Champions, Iowa City

• Ty Rushing: Ty’s Take, Iowa City

• Avery Gregurich: The Five and Dime, Marengo

• Carol Montag: Monday’s Music, Cedar Rapids

• Jeff Morrison: Between Two Rivers, Cedar Rapids

• Alison McGaughey: Out Here n the Fields, Davenport

• Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi, Davenport

• Tory Brecht: Brecht’s Beat, Quad Cities

• Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Buggy Land, Kalona

• Mary Swander's Emerging Voices: Emerging Voices, Kalona

• Steve Semken: Ice Cube Press, LLC, North Liberty

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Southwest

• Debra Engle: A Whole New World, Madison County

• Marianne Fons: Reporting From Quiltropolis, Winterset

• Vicki Minor: Relatively Minor, Winterset

• Jason Walsmith: The Racontourist, Earlham

• Sarah Scull: The Piecemaker, Creston

• Kathryn Severing Fox: Creston

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South Central

• Beth Hoffman: In the Dirt, Lovilia

• Robert Leonard: Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture, Bussey

• Macey Shofroth: The Midwest Creative, Norwalk

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Iowa at Large

• Iowa Writers Collaborative: Roundup

• Hola Iowa: Iowa

• Black Iowa News (Dana James): Black Iowa News

• Letters From Iowans: Letters From Iowans

• Nik Heftman: The Seven Times, Iowa

• Iowa Capital Dispatch: Alliance with IWC

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Out of State

• Romen Borsellino: Romen Borsellino, Hollywood, CA

• Phoebe Wall Howard: Shifting Gears, Detroit, MI

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

• Chris Gloninger: Weathering Climate Change, U.S.