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4.28.2026
‘It's a 10/10: No
Notes!’
Writers who attended the 2026 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop described the experience as a “huge infusion of joy,” “a wonderful restorative weekend” and a “glorious celebration of connection, humor, learning and stories.”
4.27.2026
Who's Publishing What: Unseasonably
Cold
A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron's elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions and deceptions.
4.23.2026
What to Expect When You're Expecting to Be Funny — A Guide for the Erma Bombeck Writers'
Workshop
Where do you go where sleep is optional, overeating is expected, and laughter is guaranteed? If you answered the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, you would be correct. It’s an adrenaline rush that doesn’t leave you disappointed.
4.23.2026
Church Tent
Revival
The Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop has been dubbed the “Woodstock of Humor.” But for Creators Syndicate columnist Bonnie Jean Feldkamp, the spring workshop felt closer to “a church tent revival where Erma's mantra is affirmed again and again: ‘You can write!’”
4.19.2026
A Rock
Concert
The Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop starts off calm and quiet, then there's a bit of a welcoming, buzzing chatter, and by the last day it’s a rock concert. The lights can be bright and swirly, and the sound can be energetic and intense.
4.12.2026
Continuing Education in Humor is Serious
Business
Long car drives are good for sweeping out the sticky cobwebs. Lotsa time to think. On my way back from the writing conference I recently attended in Dayton, I had 375 highway miles to review the stimulating weekend, to relive many new stories.
4.9.2026
How to Slay as a
Humorist-in-Residence
It’s day 14, my last day in residency, and much like the weather here in Dayton, I’m facing the high/lows. It’s a lone high, getting back home to my family, imbalanced against a barrage of lows.
4.8.2026
My Magical
Robe
"I have been living on the fourth floor. I smile at the maids, ride the elevator, visit the gym, find different nooks in which to pull out my laptop and type my words. I walk along the river. I wrap myself tightly inside my magical robe," writes Debra Solomon Baker about her experience as a humorist-in-residence at the Marriott.
4.3.2026
The Sounds of
Silence
This past weekend, I attended the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. I’ve been married for close to 30 years, and it’s been a minute since I stayed at a hotel all by myself for three whole nights.
4.2.2026
Courage, Confidence, Comedy,
Cancer
Rhonda Havig calls this essay her "love letter to the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop." When she read it at "Erma After Dark," an open mic night at the spring workshop, she received a spontaneous, long standing ovation.