Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
10.15.2025
Star-Studded
Lineup
From bestselling authors to comedy’s rising stars, the 2026 Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop will bring together a keynote lineup that promises to inspire and entertain.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
10.8.2025
The Quiet Magic of Clean
Sheets
“I do my best work alone, in my jammies, with a carafe of coffee and a side of total desperation,” one writer confessed in a pitch to be selected for A Hotel Room of One’s Own: The Erma Bombeck Humorist-in-Residence Program.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
10.6.2025
Endless
Creativity
University of Dayton students from any major with a passion for writing are encouraged to apply for the “You Can Write!” Creative Writing Retreat.
Campus and Community
10.4.2025
Who's Publishing What: A Complete
Fiction
R.L. Maizes’s new satirical novel, A Complete Fiction, will release on Nov. 4.
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.