Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
Hello, Stand-Up Performers! Could you please send me a sentence or two about yourself that Wendy Liebman can use when she introduces you? It was a simple enough email, but left me staring at a blank screen for far too long. It was for me, and I don’t do stand up; I barely do sit down. I’m headed to the Erma Bombeck Writing Workshop, a biannual (every two years, not
I went to Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop desperately seeking my funny. When you’re surrounded by 300+ women writers and a handful of men all of whom are genetically talented, it has the distinct possibility to leave you crying in the bathroom. Forever alone. A girl and her cellphone. And a quite possibly a cocktail. The Erma groupies were more than a little intimidating: books and columns and syndication and by-lines. Comics and screenplays and blogs and
An irreverent storyteller with a foul mouth and big heart, Kathryn Mayer (aka Kathy and/or Kate) is a writer, humorist, and (former) activist writing out loud with humor and grace about little life moments with big ripples, including the space between parenting and aging parents, social issues, angsty reflections of midlife, and, sigh, gun humpers. Still. Sometimes a big deal, sometimes not Mayer is a national award-winning columnist, according to the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and her essays have been recognized as Voice of … Read More Here...
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xo Kate