Ken Sheldon, star of the "Frost Heaves" shows, will be speaking at the Monadnock Writers Group on Saturday about the craft of writing humor, and how to add a humorous bent to writing.

Journalist, author and comedian Dave Barry has made a name for himself asking the important questions. Questions like: "How does the son of a Presbyterian minister wind up winning a Pulitzer Prize for ...

Viv Sade, global humor winner in the 2026 Erma Bombeck Writing Competition, is a retired journalist and freelance writer from Churubusco, Indiana. She began writing humor at the age of 12, and while ...

Lori Jakiela is the author of seven books, including the memoir Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe, which received the Saroyan Prize from Stanford University. She received an honorable mention in ...

James Pauley Jr. is a humor writer with a knack for storytelling, focusing on personal experiences that are both entertaining and heartwarming. His books, "Bumpy Rides and Soft Landings" and the ...

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Novelist, television writer and producer Larry Doyle talks about his new book, “Deliriously Happy and Other Bad Thoughts,” at the Brookline Booksmith on Wednesday. GRACE DONNELLY/DFP STAFF Former “The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles Chesnutt was one of the first widely read Black fiction writers in the U.S. RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images ...