By: Glynn Harris There is one nice advantage to being an outdoors writer and getting to attend annual conferences of writing organizations. One such group t ...

What is a TV “comedy” in 2023? In an era of blurred genres, it’s not so cut and dry anymore. Opening Variety’s “A Night in the Writer’s Room,” Variety’s Michael Schneider asked the nine comedy writers ...

Long car drives are good for sweeping out the sticky cobwebs. Lottsa time to think. On my way back from the writing conference I recently attended in Dayton, I had 375 highway miles to review the ...

The University of Dayton’s Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop is accepting applications for its April 4-6, 2024 Humorist-in-Residence Program. The workshop is offering two emerging humor writers the ...

Novelist, television writer and producer Larry Doyle talks about his new book, “Deliriously Happy and Other Bad Thoughts,” at the Brookline Booksmith on Wednesday. GRACE DONNELLY/DFP STAFF Former “The ...

Journalist, author and comedian Dave Barry has made a name for himself asking the important questions. Questions like: "How does the son of a Presbyterian minister wind up winning a Pulitzer Prize for ...

Viv Sade, global humor winner in the 2026 Erma Bombeck Writing Competition, is a retired journalist and freelance writer from Churubusco, Indiana. She began writing humor at the age of 12, and while ...

A waiter’s valentine to food and his friends at a now-closed Minneapolis restaurant and fiction about a woman who stands up to corporate betrayal give us two good reading options today. “The Last ...

Northwestern’s Department of English hosted three authors for the Colombian Writers Symposium in the Block Museum of Art on Wednesday. Julián Delgado Lopera, Gloria Susana Esquivel and Melissa ...