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Saturday, March 25, 2006
An Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop report…
UD was buzzing this weekend with the sound of anxious, happy, pumped-up writers, more than 350 of whom were attending the fourth Erma Bombeck Humor Writers’ Workshop on the campus.
Writing tips galore, advice on dealing with editors (scum) and agents (REAL scum), suggestions for how to get published, and the like — along with lots of good, honest encouragement to sit down and get started on writing.
Writers workshops are many, but UD’s is one of the best around … attended mostly by people from outside the Dayton area, I met folks this weekend from Canada, California, New York and Oregon who attended.
It’s all the memory of UD grad and former Dayton Newspapers columnist Erma Bombeck, who was one of the best and best-loved columnists ever and whose memory is very much alive in these sessions. She’s frequently invoked by attendees and speakers alike, and a new half-hour documentary about her and her work was unveiled Friday night to great acclaim. It will show in May on PBS stations.
Another high-quality workshop in our region is the annual Antioch Writers’ Workshop, which happens every summer in Yellow Springs and also draws from around the nation. It, too, has a good rep and we’re lucky to have these in our midst. Hats off to Tim Bete at UD, the coordiator and organizer of the Bombeck workshop — he and his crew do a fabulous job. Kudos.
By way of full disclosure, yours truly was on a panel Friday about how to break into newspaper writing as a freelancer (told you that editors were scum). It was a lot of bracing fun.
See ya’ll in two years at the next workshop, I hope. Dayton should be proud to have this session and to have recognized and cherished the memory of one of our greatest citizens.
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