Workshops and Seminars
New classes added all the time.
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New classes added all the time. 〰️
You don’t have to be born with a sense of humor to be funny and to write funny. Funny is a skill like any other. In this seminar, we’ll break down the skill and gossip about how to use it to joke with confidence about yourself, your life, and your world. We’ll practice many tools in class to write laugh-out-loud sentences, including exaggeration, comparison, contrast, contradiction, repetition, misdirection, figurative and visual language, irony, self-deprecation, "rule of three," "the third thought," absurdity, escalation, and punchlines. By the end of our time together, everyone will know 50-ish new devices to be funnier on the page and at parties, but if that doesn’t happen, it is not my fault.
Sunday, April 19th
2:30-5:30pm ET
Online & recorded
Good writing becomes great writing at the sentence level. Diction, syntax, rhythm, image, and description can bring your voice to life and make your work more memorable, more beautiful, and more meaningful. In this practical and flirty seminar, you’ll learn how to write and revise sentences with confidence through lecture, discussion, handouts, and writing exercises. Our goal is what James Baldwin says is The Goal: “…to write a sentence as clean as a bone.”
Sunday, Feb. 22nd, 2026
3:30-5:30pm ET
Online & recorded
Funny Personal Essays: A 4-Week Workshop
In four weeks we’ll cover mortification essays, revelation essays, “that one time…” essays, funny op-eds, self-effacing essays, and more. Students will learn a repeatable drafting process to discover topics, angles, and what’s unusual and universal in their own lives. Expect hilarious readings, infinite handouts, in-class brainstorming and discussion, workshop with peer and instructor feedback, and solicited and unsolicited advice on writing, publishing, and promoting your work and fart jokes. This course is the chance of a lifetime to expand your humor-writing portfolio, experiment with voice and form, and gain the skills and the confidence to make readers—and yourself—laugh.
Thursdays, March 5-March 26
6:30pm-9pm ET
Online & recorded
This could be you/us. Learn to weaponize comedy in my very good writing workshops, seminars, and prayer circles.
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