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Do you wish you could be as funny on the page as people say you are in person (even if they do say that behind your back)?

EBWW faculty member Leigh Anne Jasheway will offer an online humor-writing course through OnLiten, starting Sept. 11. The cost for the three-class series, which includes feedback, is $75. For details, click here.

Jasheway is the author of 21 funny books and books about funny, including 101 Comedy Games for Children and Grown-Ups, Not Guilty by Reason of Menopause, Confessions of a Semi-Natural Woman and Bedtime Stories for Dogs. She is the 2003 winner of the Erma Bombeck Writing Competition for her true story on how her first mammogram caught on fire.

She teaches comedy writing, improv and grammar at the University of Oregon and Lane Community College, is a humor columnist for the Register Guard's Weekend section, a blogger for multiple online sites and former host of The Giggle Spot on All Comedy 1450 AM.

EBWW faculty member and novelist Katrina Kittle will offer a series of online fiction-writing classes in September and October. Topics include "Inspiration and Motivation," "Fiction Writer's Toolbox Series" and "Make It Exist! Laying Down a First Draft in One Month." The latter is a prep class for writers interested in participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in November.

Kittle is the author of four books for adults: Traveling Light, Two Truths and a Lie, The Kindness of Strangers and The Blessings of the Animals. And she's the author of one published novel for tweens, Reasons to Be Happy, with another in the works. The Kindness of Strangers was the winner of the 2006 Great Lakes Book Award for Fiction. She teaches creative writing workshops from the third grade to universities to retirement communities. In the Dayton-Cincinnati area, she teaches regularly for Word's Worth Writing Connections. She also offers manuscript consultations through Write Sisters Consulting.

To learn more about OnLiten's workshops, click here.