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Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
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.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
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!’”
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
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.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
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.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
4.11.2026
Rise, Sally,
Rise
After almost 37 years of marriage, the inevitable has happened….
My husband, Steve, has a new love interest.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
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.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
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.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
4.7.2026
The Ballet According to Me (And That's the
Problem)
I went to the ballet.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
4.6.2026
Boogie
Woogie
Can someone please tell me what is with the music playing in public restrooms? Why does someone think we are afraid of silence while we pee?
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
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.