“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. Another wrote: “I once managed a six-room hotel in the desert (filled with quirky characters… Read More
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. The judges, all established writers, will narrow the field for final judging by W. Bruce Cameron, bestselling author and humorist best known for his novel… Read More
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. The University of Dayton’s Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop is offering two emerging writers… Read More
“My computer is filled with works-in-progress and my desk is a hodgepodge of ideas, inspiration and Cheetos dust. I would love the opportunity to wallow in words for multiple days,” wrote one applicant in a pitch to be selected for A Hotel Room of One’s Own: The Erma Bombeck Humorist-in-Residence Program. Another added: “I always… Read More
“Comparison is the thief of joy, Mom.” The nerve of this kid. Even as I basked in the glow of being selected as an Anna Lefler Humorist-in-Residence at the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop, the fruit of my loins had written an essay of his own. I was excitedly preparing for the singular opportunity to hole… Read More
By day, Kara Kinney Cartwright is a legal editor from North Potomac, Maryland, but her superpower is “trying to save the world with punchy humor about unwritten social rules and expectations.” A widowed mother, she’s writing a book “for grieving Gen-X and Millennial women who would sooner cut their own bangs than seek advice for… Read More
