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."
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
1.11.2026
Who's Publishing What: Why Did I Walk Into This
Room?
Why Did I Walk Into This Room? is a laugh-out-loud romp by Christy Heitger-Ewing, an award-winning writer from Indiana. It reads like a conversation with your favorite hilarious, forthright friend.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
1.2.2026
Memories of Menopause or How I Learned to Love Dark
Clothing
Menopause for me wasn’t a pause. It was a halt.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
1.1.2026
Humor Writer of the Month: Julianna
Forlano
Julianna Forlano, our Humor Writer of the Month for January, is a writer, radio host and recovering overthinker who uses humor to wrestle meaning out of life, politics and the daily circus of parenting and purpose.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
12.28.2025
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
12.26.2025
And They Call It Puppy
Love
Let me first answer the question you will ask shortly, which is: Are you nuts?