Campus and Community
10.2.2025
Meet Our
Judges
We have lined up dozens of remarkable authors, bloggers and humorists to review and rank the 2025 entries in A Hotel Room of One's Own: The Erma Bombeck Humorist-in-Residence Program.
Campus and Community
10.1.2025
Humor Writer of the Month: Nicole
Beckley
Nicole Beckley is an award-winning humor writer who has written for McSweeney’s, Slackjaw and The Belladonna. She has performed in hundreds of improv and sketch comedy shows. Her first book, the comedic novel Torsos of Desire, has just been released as an audio series. She's our Humor Writer of the Month for October.
Campus and Community
9.24.2025
Who's Publishing What: The Room on the
Right
The Room on the Right, a memoir by Lawrence Mieczkowski, is a poignant, inspiring story of endurance and survival.
Campus and Community
9.24.2025
Who's Publishing What: Marianne the
Maker
Marianne lives to design and tinker. She’s a pint-sized, non-stop super thinker. Kelly Corrigan and her daughter Claire Corrigan Lichty worked hand in hand to write Marianne The Maker, a story about the power of making that’s told in delightful rhyme.
Campus and Community
9.23.2025
Who's Publishing What: Inspired by
Cats
Inspired by Cats: Writers and Their Mews(es), Nava Atlas and Bob Eckstein’s witty and sophisticated collection, profiles 60 famous authors and their beloved feline companions.
Campus and Community
9.18.2025
Erma Made Me Do
It
Fate brought Marissa Malson to the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. It changed the life of this debut author.
Campus and Community
9.18.2025
Who's Publishing What: Motion
Dazzle
Jocelyn Jane Cox's memoir, Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice, will be released by Vine Leaves Press on Sept. 30.
Campus and Community
9.16.2025
Things AI Can't
Do
Goldman Sachs predicts that artificial intelligence may displace up to 300 million jobs by 2027. Of course, I acquired that information from AI, so I have no idea if it’s true or if AI is just trying to bully me into making friends with it so it won’t render me as obsolete at work as I am at home.
Campus and Community
9.3.2025
Rocky Mountain
Sigh
My eldest and most expensive daughter truly left the nest this time. We recently schlepped her from glorious Texas to a mysterious and unaffordable land known as Colorado, where she’ll start a life of her own dodging blizzards, patrons stumbling out of brewhouses, and billowing clouds of smoke from the devil’s lettuce.
Campus and Community
9.3.2025
Smells Like Team
Spirit
Steve and I have always shared the same values.
But over the last year, there has been a shift.