Closed for Thanksgiving

The Library will close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 27th and reopen on Friday, November 29th at 12 noon.

Humor Writing with Julia Strayer

Primary tabs

Program Type:

Classes & Workshops

Age Group:

Adults
Please note that you are looking at an event that has already taken place.
Registration for this event is no longer open.

Program Description

Event Details

Learn the how, when, why, and are you serious? of humor. Examine the ways literary writing uses humor as cover for grief, political statement, and persuasion. Discuss ideas for generating and developing fiction/non-fiction narratives that use humor.

About the Presenter

Julia Strayer has stories in Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review online, Cincinnati Review, Post Road, Mid-American Review, and others, including The Best Small Fictions anthology. She recently won the 2022 New Ohio Review Fiction Contest and is a finalist in the 2022 CRAFT First Chapters contest for her novel in progress. She is a submissions editor for SmokeLong Quarterly and teaches creative writing at New York University. 

#WHM2024

chat loading...