Virtual Panel Discussion: Writing the Region

March 24, 2021 - 7:00 PM

This roundtable will consider the opportunities and challenges for presses, literary publications, and media groups attempting to promote writing about and within the region known as the American Midwest. It will be be co-moderated by Jacob Bruggeman (editor-in-chief, Cleveland Review of Books) and Mitch James (editor, Great Lakes Review), with panelists Logan Sander (co-founder, Midstory), Megan and Joe Neary (co-founders, Flyover Country literary Magazine), Kevin Latimer and Brendan Joyce (co-founders, Grieveland), and Curtis Deeter (editor, Of Rust and Glass). Contact email: Jacob Bruggeman at jbruggeman@clereviewofbooks.

Access the event:  Meeting ID: 950 4540 3071. 

This event is sponsored by The Cleveland Review of Books.


Throughout March and April, the Cleveland Review of Books will feature essays by artists, writers, scholars, and others that discuss the relationship between close looking and public discourse. How can personal encounters with visual art lead to advocacy and interchange? How do private experiences of media contribute to collective exchange? The series is edited by Zach Savich, Associate Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Online at the .