Humor is all around us, every minute—that wee annoyance, or strange interaction, or the person on line in front of you at the post office. The hard part, as with any writing, is finding the courage to do it. In this talk, writer and performer Jenny Allen will discuss the humor writers she loves and how to approach writing a humor piece.

Jenny Allen’s humor pieces have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, More, and other magazines, and in anthologies including The 50 Funniest American Writers (edited by Andy Borowitz). A collection of her pieces will be published in 2017 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sarah Crichton Books). Jenny is the writer and performer of I Got Sick Then I Got Better, which debuted at New York Theatre Workshop and which has been seen around the country. She is also a contributing storyteller for the MOTH.

www.jennyallenwrites.com

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The Writing Life events in 2016 are generously underwritten by Jenny Lawrence.