(Winter23) Humor Writing Workshop with Damon Young

Humor Writing Workshop with Damon Young
Days: Tuesdays
Dates: March 14, 21, 28, and April 4
Time: 8:30 - 10:00PM ET
​Location: Online via Zoom
Fee: $275

Everyone appreciates a funny story. Some of us can even tell one. But how do you write one? What makes a written story or essay funny? What are the rules of rhythms of writing humor? When is a laugh, embedded in an essay, appropriate, and who makes that judgment? How do you prepare and prime your audience for satire? What’s the difference between humor as a crutch, and humor as a heat-seeking cruise missile?

Damon Young, author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker - winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor - will answer these questions and more, during a four session seminar on how to be almost as funny as he is.

Damon Young is the author of “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays”—a tragicomic exploration of the angsts, anxieties, and absurdities of existing while Black in America—winner of Thurber Prize for American Humor and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award.

He is also the co-founder of the culture blog VerySmartBrothas and was a contributing columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and a columnist for GQ. He has written for the Atlantic, Esquire, NY Mag, The Undefeated, Lit Hub, Ebony, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Currently, Damon is the creator and host of a podcast with Crooked Media, “Stuck with Damon Young.”