Publish Your Funny Stuff: Best Practices for Submitting to Humor Sites
Writing and publishing humor pieces is a lot of fun. If you haven’t tried it, you should!
In this short, fun, and accessible humor publishing workshop, humor writer and editor Alex Baia will give you a guided tour of the following:
Best practices for humor submissions: Some quick and dirty craft essentials that will get you more humor piece acceptances.
Specific tips to publish in specific humor sites: The New Yorker humor section, McSweeney’s, Points In Case, and Slackjaw. These sites range in their acceptance difficulty, so there’s something for every writer here. You can publish your humor… if you’re willing to be persistent.
Nonfiction personal essayist to humor writer: Do you write nonfiction personal essays? The skills for writing and publishing humor are overlapping but distinct. We’ll look at a few painless ways for personal essayists to dip their toes into the humor world.
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Alex Baia has written humor for The New Yorker, Austin Monthly, McSweeney’s, Eater, Points In Case, Weekly Humorist, and others. He’s also a long-time editor of Slackjaw, a daily humor publication on Medium. You can find his work at alexbaia.com
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