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Elissa Bassist @elissabassist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Want to churn out 3-4 short humor & satire pieces to workshop for compliments/suggestions? Need accountability, community, & 100 handouts? Care to heal the world with comedy? If yes, sign up! Sept. 9th-Oct. 7th (5 weeks) 6:30-9pm ET Online & recorded Black-tie optional via @92ndstreety.bsky.social
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Elissa Bassist @elissabassist.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
COVER REVEAL Designed by Natalie Peeples Written with @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social The first-ever comedy writing craft book for humorists, satirists, essayists, memoirists, novelists, and everyone else August 4, 2026 Preorder: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eliss...
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Elissa Bassist @elissabassist.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
INTRODUCING: monthly virtual writing sessions, via Substack subscription, on topics like: short humor & satire funny personal essays memoir tragicomedy being funny when nothing is funny watching TV to write better the art of rejection dismantling patriarchy elissabassist.substack.com/p/a-life-cha...
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A Life-Changing Announcement
It's monthly virtual writing sessions
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Elissa Bassist @elissabassist.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I don't know who needs to hear this but elissabassist.substack.com/p/declare-em...
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Declare Email Bankruptcy
A writing tip
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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Don’t threaten us with a good time
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Elissa Bassist @elissabassist.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
EVERYTHING IS BAD. Let's write about it. Take my new seminar to use your fears, secrets, lies, truths, and farts to write more and better in order to survive life right now (and win writing awards). writingworkshops.com/collections/...
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Writing the Impossible Seminar: Sex, Violence, Illness, and More
Sex, violence, illness, and the body: charged topics are hard to read about and harder to write about. But with the right tools, you can pull it off.
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Learn to write funny stuff about your life in @elissabassist.bsky.social's @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class, no matter how unfunny your life your life may feel sometimes… One class, Zoom, May 1! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
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PJ Seminar: A Master Class on Writing a Comedic Memoir with Elissa Bassist - StoryStudio Chicago
You don’t have to be a celebrity comedian to write a funny memoir. You don’t have to be born with a sense of humor or have had anything funny happen to you. A memoirist must make a meal out of her exp...
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Mary Flannery @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Attended a *fabulous* online seminar last night on writing comedic memoir, run by @elissabassist.bsky.social (take her classes!!). Was reminded that she has a book on comedy writing called INSIDE JOKES forthcoming with @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social—can’t wait!
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Caitlin Kunkel @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Next class 4/26: one of my favs, Write Like an Athlete! We mix creativity with sports psychology concepts to create a warmup routine, tinker with your environment + explore goal setting, tapering, and lots of other elements. Two hours, recorded if you can't come live, and you get the slides after!
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Write Like an Athlete Class with Caitlin Kunkel | WritingWorkshops.com
Former competitive distance swimmer Caitlin Kunkel will weave together concepts from writing and sports psychology to help strengthen your creative practice.
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/03/2025
Send us some shit. Open 4/20 - ???. we pay $150 for prestigious works of literary merit. We got the Paris Review at home and it's called the Taco Bell Quarterly, just as good, cheaper, actually free and completely made up
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Elissa Bassist @elissabassist.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I'm teaching at The Kennedy Center. A staff member and I started planning this class last April. After T**** took over and fired the board and senior staff this month, I could have canceled my class. 1/?
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Elissa Bassist @elissabassist.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
My friend fixed her daughter's homework:
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Caitlin Kunkel @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is the first short humor class I've taught in years—I've refined it down to 2 hours while writing INSIDE JOKES with @elissabassist.bsky.social! On Zoom, you'll get the slides/recording after if you can't make it, learn a repeatable process to brainstorm, draft, and rewrite a short humor piece.
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How to Write a Short Humor Piece | WritingWorkshops.com
Writer and creator of The Second City’s online satire writing program, Caitlin Kunkel, will teach a repeatable process for writing a short humor piece.
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RL Maizes (she/her) @rlmaizes.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I made a list!
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Sara @ms-theman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
tbh "do whatever you want" would be a helpful statement to tattoo on myself
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Elissa Bassist @elissabassist.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Not caring what other people think is a writing skill. Please read/share/frame/tattoo/memorize:
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Writing About Other People, Pt. 2
And how to write when afraid
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ryanashleyanderson @femmeintheory.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
You know you’ve found the right person when they buy you a spot in @elissabassist.bsky.social’s workshop on writing a/b violence as an early v-day present. How’d I get so lucky with you, @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social ??? (P.S. her workshops are lit. Highly recommend. Join me?)
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Writing the Impossible Seminar: Sex, Violence, Illness, and More
Sex, violence, illness, and the body: charged topics are hard to read about and harder to write about. But with the right tools, you can pull it off.
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writingco-lab.bsky.social @writingco-lab.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Stop worrying and entrust @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social to help you WRITE THAT BOOK PROPOSAL Feb 8th: www.writingco-lab.com/classes/stop...
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Stop Worrying and Write Your Book Proposal! 1 session with Caitlin Kunkel — Writing Co-Lab
Do you have an idea for a memoir, gift book, or essay collection, but you've been fearing the daunting prospect of putting together a book proposal? In this one-day seminar, writers will throw their w...
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Nightmare Before “Chris”tmas @justokonline.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is a late addition to my favorite books I’ve read this year. @elissabassist.bsky.social artfully weaves research, literature, and media criticism in with her personal story and it’s phenomenal.
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Mary Lambeth Moore @mlmoore.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
"Preserve Energy: We have a finite amount. And decision fatigue is real (so wear the same writing outfit, which is a robe, every day)." Funny and very practical #writingtips from Elissa Bassist
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How to Sit in a Chair
Productivity hacks for the uninspired writer
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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I'm taking a comedy writing class w/ the hilarious @elissabassist.bsky.social & it's giving me so much confidence that I (an overly earnest person) can be funny in print. My plan with this new power? Trick people into reading a funny story only for them to realize (too late) they learned science.
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Caitlin Kunkel @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Last class of the year: Comedy Writing for Non-Comedians! Learn to use the tools of comedy to write funnier copy, emails, dating profiles, speeches, and whatever else you need to spice up. Sunday, 12/8 online, but you can also sign up and watch the recording later. Details here:
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Comedy Writing for Non-Comedians Caitlin Kunkel | WritingWorkshops.com
n this two-hour interactive seminar, satirist, author, and creator of The Second City’s online satire writing program Caitlin Kunkel will break down the basics of comedic writing for those who aren’t ...
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Caitlin Kunkel @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I made a starter pack of humor and satire publications as they start to come over to Bluesky—let me know additional ones I should add!
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Caitlin Kunkel @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
When I was on maternity leave I created a referral sheet of people I recommend for fiction, book proposal, humor, and satire feedback and editing—sharing it here in case people are looking for these resources now: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Caitlin Kunkel: Writing and Editing Referrals 2024
Hi there! I (Caitlin Kunkel) am out on family and book leave until 2025. My next book, “Inside Jokes: A Comedy and Creativity Guide for All Writers,” co-authored with Elissa Bassist, will be out from ...
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Natalie Schriefer @nschriefer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Happy publication anniversary to my first (and only!) humor piece about (the chaos of) querying a novel. Pubbing with @therumpus.bsky.social was one of my big-dream goals last year, and I so enjoyed working with @elissabassist.bsky.social 🥰
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Funny Women: Query Letter for My Totally Publishable Novel - The Rumpus
(The previous sentence demonstrates both my market awareness and my forward thinking.)
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
It’s really pretty cool that one thing you can do to support people you like is ask your local library to get their book because it doesn’t cost you anything, it helps them, and the librarian gets to know someone actually wants to read a book and not just use the computer for Roblox
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Bird @birdadoo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Goodreads is owned by Amazon & there is an AMAZING alternative‼️ The StoryGraph is a black women-owned competitor to GoodReads with better UI in my opinion. When you sign up you can even transfer your data from Goodreads to StoryGraph!
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