I am a seasoned instructor for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in Iowa City, and I have been a guest author at dozens of libraries, bookstores, book clubs, churches, and colleges, including:
Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City
Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
AWP Conference, San Antonio
Manhattan Public Library, Kansas
Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver
Grace Episcopal Cathedral, Topeka
Festival of Faith and Writing, Calvin College, MI
Newton Public Library, Iowa
If you would like me to consider a guest-author visit, please contact me at my email address: tbascom13@gmail.com. See link below.
UPCOMING READINGS/WORKSHOPS
Monday, July 21, 2025 at 7 pm–Guest Author at Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City
Saturday, August 16, 2025 at 3 pm–Guest author with poet Danny Alexander at Flagship Books, Kansas City
Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 1 pm—Panel on Border-Crossing Fiction at Kansas Book Festival, Washburn University, Topeka
Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 9 am—Keynote speaker at Kansas Library Association Conference, Manhattan, KS
Thursday, January 29, 2026 9:30 am to Noon—”Expand your Essay Horizons” online workshop for Off-Campus Writers Workshop, Chicago
Thursday, February 19, 2026, Time TBD—Guest Author at Waldorf University, Iowa
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, Time TBD—Guest author at University of Pittsburgh, Bradford Campus, PA
Thursday, March 5, 2026, Time TBD—Book signing at Main Street Rag booth in AWP Conference exhibit area, Baltimore
Tim Bascom, Author 