Friday Zoom link for the Iowa Writers Collaborative

Our third monthly call for paid subscribers

Members of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative in Jefferson in early December. Back row: Nik Heftman, Doug Burns, Kyle Munson, Laura Sands, Dave Busiek, Art Cullen, Bob Leonard, Annie Leonard. Tar Marcias. Middle row: Cheryl Tevis, Laura Belin, Beth Hoffman, Joe Gupta, Fern Kupfer, John Naughton, Suzanne de Baca and Erika Macias. Front row: Chuck Offenburger, Richard Gilbert, Julie Gammack, Teresa Zilk, Jody Gifford. Not pictured: Dana James, Ed Tibbetts, Pat Kinney, Kurt Meyer, and Mary Swander.

This Friday, December 30, some of the Iowa Writers Collaborative authors will be on our monthly Zoom call, which starts at noon Central. I’ve enclosed the link below, after the paywall. You don’t need to be a paid subscriber to this newsletter to join the Zoom, though. If you pay to support any of the other author in the collaborative, you should receive the link from them. Here’s the current list:

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

Pat Kinney: View from Cedar Valley, Waterloo

Fern Kupfer and Joe Geha: Fern and Joe, Ames

Robert Leonard: Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture, Bussey

Tar Macias: Hola Iowa, Iowa

Kurt Meyer: Showing Up, St. Ansgar

John Naughton: My Life, in Color, Des Moines

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

Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Emerging Voices

Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business, Boone County

Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi, Davenport

Teresa Zilk: Talking Good, Des Moines

During the slow week between Christmas and New Year’s I spend a lot of time on year-end reviews of Bleeding Heartland’s work. Today I published a recap from all of this year’s “Iowa wildflower Wednesday” posts.

Still to come: a piece on the best original reporting from the site, as well as the 22 most-viewed Bleeding Heartland posts out of more than 550 articles and commentaries I’ve published since January 1.