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2.26.2026
Finding Your
Voice
“Stand-up, like life, is finding your voice,” Los Angeles comic Wendy Liebman told the audience at Erma’s Got Talent: The Stand-Up Auditions on Feb. 25. The contestants proved her right.
2.25.2026
You Can
Write!
The winners of the 2026 Erma Bombeck Writing Competition, sponsored by the Washington-Centerville Public Library, shared humorous, touching and poignant stories with contest judges, including recollections of bonding with partners through health issues, witnessing a parent’s last days and the foibles of selecting a “secure” password.
2.22.2026
The Legacy
Continues
Erma Bombeck’s English professor at the University of Dayton inspired her future career with three magical words: “You can write!” Since 2022, the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop has been putting financial support behind those words, making it possible for more emerging writers to achieve their dreams.
2.19.2026
Who's Publishing What: Amy in
Retrograde
Amy in Retrograde: Desperately Seeking Rewiring is a wickedly funny memoir by Amy Ferris about seeking answers everywhere when they all reside within yourself
2.16.2026
Charting advocacy: UD senior maps history of LGBTQ+ inclusion in Catholic
Church
UD senior Katie Montgomery explored how Catholic advocates for LGBTQ+ people interact with the Catholic Church as part of a donor-funded summer research project.
2.14.2026
Like America's Got Talent, Only
Funnier
Erma’s Got Talent, loosely formatted along the lines of America’s Got Talent, will offer 12 randomly selected contestants the opportunity to perform two minutes of their original stand-up material in front of celebrity judges for a slot on stage this spring at the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.
2.1.2026
Humor Writer of the Month: Christy
Heitger-Ewing
Christy Heitger-Ewing is the author of the laugh-out-loud romp, Why Did I Walk into This Room? She's our Humor Writer of the Month for February.
1.19.2026
Who's Publishing What: Older, Wiser,
Shorter
Older, Wiser, Shorter: The Truth and Humor of Life After 65 is an intimate collection of 89 poems from Jane Seskin, a working psychotherapist and author.
1.13.2026
Who's Publishing What: something out there in the
distance
Flash-fiction master Grant Faulkner and photographer Gail Butensky have partnered to create something out there in the distance (UMN Press), a “flash novel” of stories and photography.
1.11.2026
Who's Publishing What: Never Say
Die
Never Say Die, Meredith Doench's latest gripping thriller, is being called a novel about "the bonds of love and the bounds of the law."