SESSIONS
(Subject to change)
SPECIAL FEATURES
10 Top Lessons Learned From 10 Years of Interviewing Bestselling Authors (one time only)
Jessica Strawser
Jessica Strawser, editor-at-large for Writer’s Digest magazine, distills best-in-class writing and process advice from her Writer’s Digest conversations with the likes of David Sedaris, Alice Walker, David Baldacci, Lisa Scottoline, Lisa Gardner and others.
Offered Friday at 9 a.m.
Panel: Drag Races, Detours and Destinations: Finding the Power in Your Creative Journey (one time only)
Moderator: Dr. […]
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Schedule
(Subject to change. For a description of all the sessions, click here.)
Wednesday, April 4 (special pre-workshop event, free and open to the public)
7 p.m.
Erma Bombeck Writing Competition Awards Ceremony, featuring keynote speaker Tracy Beckerman
Centerville Library
111 W. Spring Valley Rd.
Centerville, OH 45458
(free and open to the public, but advance registration required.)
Thursday, April 5
2 to 5:30 p.m.
Attendee sign-in
Marriott at the University of Dayton Lobby
3 to 5 p.m. […]
Presenters
Keynoters
Liza Donnelly, award-winning cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine, resident cartoonist for CBS News and author/editor of 18 books. Her drawings and writing can also be seen in The New York Times, Medium, Forbes, Politico and other major publications. Read more about Liza.
Rita Davenport, award-winning TV host, bestselling author, inspirational humorist and entrepreneur. Read more about Rita.
John Grogan, author of the international #1 bestseller Marley & […]
Bathroom stall to center stage:
a writer finds her groove
Four kids, three houses, eight cars and three colleges ago, I was a waitress at Denny’s. Many a Grand Slam breakfasts and chicken fried steak paid for community college. Whenever a posse of older women came, the wait staff would immediately hide in the kitchen, no one wanting that table.
Chimes of “not me, not me, not me” rang out like seagulls finding fries at the beach, and with good reason.
What pains in the as**! […]
The tribe of Erma
Virginia author Kimberly “Kimba” Dalferes says you can quote her on this: “Finding your tribe is life-affirming and feeds your soul.”
Dalferes describes the 2016 Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop in this way: “What happens when 350 people, predominantly women, truck in from all across the U.S. to spend three full days laughing (and a little crying), eating (mostly desserts) and baring their souls to each other? Magic. In a place called Dayton. That’s not a punchline.”
Humorist Wanda Argersinger blogs, […]
