Registration is rolling until Friday, November 18h at 5pm. No application is required. $65 w/financial aid available to residents of Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)

Whether you are writing pure comedy, constructing some satire, or trying to weave a little bit of funny into serious pieces, this class will give provide some more tools to use when thinking about humor in your work. We’ll look at some contemporary and older examples of humor in prose, discuss ways to approach writing funny lines and scenes, and do a few short exercises to play with being funny in our work!

This is half seminar, half workshop, with a strong foundation of examples and exercises, as well as examples from The Sellout, Eleutheria, Search History, Temporary, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, and Catch-22. The class will equip writers with approaches and models for thinking about how they can identify opportunities for humor in their fiction.

Arthur Tarley is a writer, activist, and union member originally from Queens, NY. He has studied at Kenyon Review, StoryStudio Chicago and Catapult. His fiction can be found in The Dillydoun Review, High Shelf Press, Coffin Bell Journal, and elsewhere, and his essays are in Vox and Current Affairs. His work, including his completed novel manuscript and novel-in-progress, tends to be speculative, dark, satirical, and anti-capitalist. Follow Arthur on Twitter @arthurtarley and subscribe to his goofy substack at https://arthurtarley.substack.com/subscribe.