About this Event
Join us for a night of stories from Tim Bascom, a former Waldorf University English & Creative Writing professor. This event is FREE and open to the public.
Tim Bascom, who spent half his childhood in East Africa, has served as Director of the Kansas Book Festival and, before that, as Director of Creative Writing at Waldorf University, Iowa. His books include The Boundless Game (nonfiction from University Press of Kansas, 2026), Continental Drift (fiction from Main Street Rag, 2025), Climbing Lessons (essays from Light Messages Press, 2020), Running to the Fire (memoir from University of Iowa Press, 2015), Chameleon Days (memoir from Houghton Mifflin, 2006), plus an earlier collection of essays from InterVarsity Press and a novel from New Day Press, Philippines. His writing has been chosen for the Bakeless Literary Prize in Nonfiction, recognized as a Finalist for the IndieFab Memoir of the Year, awarded editor’s prizes at The Missouri Review and Florida Review, and selected for the anthologies Best American Travel Writing and Best Creative Nonfiction. He lives, now, in Topeka, Kansas.
When
February 19, 2026
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Where
Johnson Ballroom - Salveson Hall