Description
The Definitive, Humorous Guide on Sisterhood
No one has your back like your sister. And no one can make you laugh as hard. Explore this humorous, nobody-else-could-ever-understand, special world in Sisters! Bonded by Love and Laughter, featuring 21 hilarious (and true) stories by the winners of Nickie's Prize for Humor Writing from the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, plus dozens of funny contributions-from New York Times bestselling authors, Saturday Night Live legends, humor writers, podcasters, and other creatives.
Enjoy comical sister stories of illicit ear-piercing and cigarette procuring, sisterly advice (gone seriously awry, at times), the power of big sisters (for better or worse), and sharing that shoulder to cry on during life's most crushing moments.
If your sister is "your person," then Sisters! is for you-and her-and for friends in your life who are just like sisters, and share that special bond of love and laughter.
About the Author
The nationally renowned University of Dayton's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop has been dubbed the Woodstock of Humor and a utopia for writers. It's the only writers' workshop in the country devoted to both humor and human interest writing. Proceeds from Sisters! Bonded by Love and Laughter will benefit the workshop's endowment fund, which is used to keep it affordable for writers.
Co-editor Marcia Stewart is a 30-year publishing veteran who spent most of her career acquiring, editing, and writing business and legal books for the publisher, Nolo. She co-founded Nickie's Prize for Humor Writing with the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.
Teri Rizvi is the founder and director of the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop at the University of Dayton, where she serves as executive director of strategic communications. Her essays and feature stories have appeared in USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian (London), University of Dayton Magazine and the Dayton Daily News, among other print and online media.She is the co-editor of Laugh Out Loud: 40 Women Humorists Celebrate Then and Now ... Before We Forget and Sisters!, Bonded by Love and Laughter, both published in conjunction with the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. Her essay "Living in the Moment" will appear in Fast Fierce Women (Woodhall Press, 2022).
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