How Can I Be Funny When Everything Is on Fire?
You Had to Be There: Making Your Inside Jokes Universally Relatable
How To Make Your Writing Funnier: Advice I’ve Learned from the Funniest People in the World
Be Hysterical: Find Your Voice Through Style and Emotion
Meet the speakers
Elissa Bassist
Elissa Bassist is the editor of the “Funny Women” column on The Rumpus and the author of Hysterical, a semi-finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. As a founding contributor to The Rumpus, Elissa has written cultural and personal criticism since the website launched in 2009. Her next book, a comedy writing craft book, is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing. Elissa teaches humor writing at The New School, 92NY, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and elsewhere, and she is probably her therapist’s favorite. Visit www.elissabassist.com for upcoming classes.
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Sally Chaffin Brooks
Sally Chaffin Brooks is a writer, stand-up comedian, and podcaster. A reformed lawyer, Sally has released two chart-topping comedy albums (Brooks Was Here, Street Bird) and co-hosts the comedy podcast The Ridiculist. She is the author of the memoir Going to Maine: All the Ways to Fall on the Appalachian Trail. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and son, and heads to the mountains as often as possible.
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Bob Eckstein
Bob Eckstein is an award-winning writer, illustrator, NY Times bestseller, New Yorker cartoonist and world's leading snowman expert. His new book is Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums: Stories and Memorable Moments from People Who Love Museums.
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Leigh Anne Jasheway
Leigh Anne Jasheway has been a comedy and non-fiction writer for 30 years. She is the author of 27 books, including Don’t Get Mad, Get Funny; Not Guilty by Reason of Menopause; 101 Comedy Games for Children and Grown-Ups; Date Me, Date My Dog; and The Stressed-Out Woman’s Guide to Letting Go with Laughter. Her writing has also been included in over two dozen anthologies. She has also written and produced a musical, a short film, and two stage plays. Leigh Anne won the national Erma Bombeck Humor Writing Award for her true story on how her first mammogram caught on fire. She has taught comedy writing in workshops across the country, as well as at her local community college, for two decades. In her spare time, she takes obedience lessons from her dachshunds.
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