The Erma Bombeck Writing Competition is hosted every two years by the University of Dayton and the Washington Centerville Public Library in Centerville, Ohio, where Erma wrote the books and columns that launched her national fame.
The 2012 competition will open in January. More information and a list of past winners is available at the website of the Washington Centerville Public Library: http://www.wclibrary.info/
Gina Barreca launched her publishing career with They Used to Call Me Snow White…But I Drifted: Women’s Strategic Use of Humor. University Press of New England is re-releasing the book with a new intro exploring the last two decades of women’s humor. Ms. Magazine calls Gina a “feminist humor maven” and Dave Barry grudgingly concedes she’s “Very, very funny. For a woman.”
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Jon Ziegler, a husband, father and writer, has published the The How-Not-To Guide to Parenting and Marriage. It’s described as a “celebration of good intentions and bad decisions.”
Terri Spilman has been named a co-creator of the upcoming anthology, Not Your Mother’s Book…On Dieting. Three of her essays were published in the first book in the new anthology series, Not Your Mother’s Book…On Being A Woman. As co-creator, Terri will work with publishers Dahlynn and Ken McKowen to solicit humorous, unique and irreverent real-life dieting stories, select stories and promote the book. Click here to submit a story for this book or others in the series.
The newly released Fifty Shades of Grace includes a chapter by Bruce Stambaugh, a community activist and newspaper columnist in Millersburg, Ohio. A retired educator, Stambaugh is working on his first book, Among the Amish.
Paige Kellerman is publishing her first humor book, At Least My Belly Hides My Cankles: Mostly-True Tales Of An Impending Miracle, in June. If you want a laugh, check out her blog, “There’s More Where That Came From.”
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