Tim Bascom, Visiting Writer

Mar 3, 2026 12:00pm-2:00pm

Studio Theater, Blaisdell Hall

March 3, 2026, Noon
Free

Tim Bascom, author of a new story collection titled Continental Drift, is also the author of a novel, two collections of essays, and two prize-winning memoirs about years spent in East Africa as a youth. His essays have been selected for the anthologies Best Creative Nonfiction and Best American Travel Writing. His short fiction has appeared in journals such as Zone 3, Front Range Review, and Flint Hills Review, winning the Briar Cliff Fiction Prize. Bascom received his MFA from the University of Iowa and taught creative writing for 20 years at a college level. He currently directs the Kansas Book Festival. timbascom.com