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.
Campus and Community
9.1.2025
Humor Writer of the Month: Wendi
Aarons
Wendi Aarons is an award-winning humor writer who writes "books to make you laugh no matter your age." She's our Humor Writer of the Month for September.
Campus and Community
8.29.2025
Homecoming
The Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop has come home. Now housed within the University of Dayton’s English department, the workshop couldn’t be in a more fitting place. It was here, as a student, that Erma Bombeck ‘49 first heard the three words that changed her life, “You can write!” spoken by her English professor, Brother Tom Price, S.M.
Campus and Community
8.26.2025
Standouts on the Page and on the
Stage
Bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron and nationally renowned stand-up comic Wendy Liebman will select two humor writers for a fun, unconventional writing residency that promises winners the gift of time to hole up in a hotel, write — and order free room service.
Campus and Community
8.25.2025
The Luxury of Time (and Room
Service)
The University of Dayton’s Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop is offering humor writers a dream opportunity: two all-expenses-paid writing residencies in a hotel in Erma’s hometown.
Campus and Community
8.22.2025
Become a Workshop
Sponsor
Sponsorships help the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop continue to inspire writers and honor Erma's enduring legacy. Learn how you can help.
Campus and Community
8.15.2025
My Husband Refuses to Take Off His
Suit
My husband wears a business suit every day. Grey – maybe charcoal grey. Sometimes grey with a pale blue stripe or faint pattern. An old-school suit, long pants and a matching suit jacket. Socks and black shoes. He looks like he's on his way to a summer wedding. But he's not.