Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
2.22.2026
The Legacy
Continues
Erma Bombeck’s English professor at the University of Dayton inspired her future career with three magical words: “You can write!” Since 2022, the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop has been putting financial support behind those words, making it possible for more emerging writers to achieve their dreams.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
2.19.2026
Who's Publishing What: Amy in
Retrograde
Amy in Retrograde: Desperately Seeking Rewiring is a wickedly funny memoir by Amy Ferris about seeking answers everywhere when they all reside within yourself
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
2.15.2026
Who's Publishing What: Wow. You Haven't Heard a Word I've
Said
“Erma Bombeck was a huge source of our inspiration, and it is always the greatest of all compliments when readers tell us our work reminds them of her,” said Eve Shavatt, who collaborated with her sister, Donna, on a collection of humorous essays, Wow. You Haven't Heard a Word I've Said.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
2.14.2026
Like America's Got Talent, Only
Funnier
Erma’s Got Talent, loosely formatted along the lines of America’s Got Talent, will offer 12 randomly selected contestants the opportunity to perform two minutes of their original stand-up material in front of celebrity judges for a slot on stage this spring at the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
2.13.2026
Incognito Facade in Wackadoodle Man
Cave
Forget acrophobia, claustrophobia and agoraphobia. The medical community can’t cough up a phobia for my main malady. So, I’ll coin the term myself — fame-aphobia.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
2.1.2026
Humor Writer of the Month: Christy
Heitger-Ewing
Christy Heitger-Ewing is the author of the laugh-out-loud romp, Why Did I Walk into This Room? She's our Humor Writer of the Month for February.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
1.19.2026
Who's Publishing What: Older, Wiser,
Shorter
Older, Wiser, Shorter: The Truth and Humor of Life After 65 is an intimate collection of 89 poems from Jane Seskin, a working psychotherapist and author.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
1.14.2026
Love, Loss, and the Year of the
Bidet
2025 was one heck of a year (and that’s the clean version). It was a year defined by devastating departures, including what was left of my youthful good looks.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
1.13.2026
Who's Publishing What: something out there in the
distance
Flash-fiction master Grant Faulkner and photographer Gail Butensky have partnered to create something out there in the distance (UMN Press), a “flash novel” of stories and photography.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
1.11.2026
Who's Publishing What: Never Say
Die
Never Say Die, Meredith Doench's latest gripping thriller, is being called a novel about "the bonds of love and the bounds of the law."