Join Slackjaw on Medium Day this Saturday for “From 800 Words to 80,000: Short Humor Writers on Becoming Authors.”

Are you a short humor writer interest in writing a novel? Are you a novelist interested in learning what seeing the world through a satirical gaze can bring to your creative process? Do you have nothing to do this Saturday, August 12, from 4–4:30 ET? This panel is for you!

Slackjaw editor Sarah James will be chatting with panelists Lindsay Hameroff and Jennifer S. Brown about comedy, books, and literally every single thing in-between. Except AI. We’re not gonna talk about AI.

Register now at mediumday.com for access to a borderline overwhelming number of virtual events! Seriously, they should have called this thing “long day!” I’m a professional writer. (Search “short humor” in the schedule to add this panel to your calendar!)

Planning on attending and have a question for our panelists? Hit us up: slackjawsubmissions@gmail.com

Panelists:

Lindsay Hameroff is a writer, humorist, and former English teacher raised in Baltimore, MD and based in Harrisburg, PA. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Belladonna, Weekly Humorist, The Daily Drunk’s celebrity humor column, and other outlets. She also co-edits Frazzled, a parenting humor site. Till There Was You, publishing in 2024 from St. Martin’s Press, is her first novel.

• A Note Of Apology To My Cleaning Lady
• To Preserve My Sanity, I’ve Decided To Resign From Pandemic Parenting and Pursue My True Passion…

Set both in the chaos of fame and the high stakes world of New York City restaurants, this novel sprinkles in a second chance at love and a dollop of celebrity drama to create a romantic romp that will make even the most jaded reader smile.

Pre-order Till There Was You here.

Jennifer S. Brown has published fiction and creative nonfiction in Fiction Southeast, The Best Women’s Travel Writing, The Southeast Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, and the Bellevue Literary Review, among other places. Her essay “The Codeine of Jordan” was selected as a notable essay in The Best American Travel Writing in 2012. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington.

• 1980s Movies Remade For Gen Z
• Rules For Sharing This Café With Me, A Writer

Set in 1935 in the Lower East Side of New York, Modern Girls is about a Russian-born Jewish mother and her American-born unmarried daughter. Each discovers that she is expecting, although the pregnancies are unplanned and unwanted, in this story about women’s roles, standards, and choices, set against the backdrop of the impending war.

Order Modern Girls here.

Your host:

Sarah James is an editor of Slackjaw and the international best-selling author of The Woman With Two Shadows. Her second novel, Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen, is forthcoming from Sourcebooks.

Script For A Planetarium Show After All The Billionaires Have Moved To Space

For fans of ATOMIC CITY GIRLS and THE SECRETS WE KEPT, a fascinating debut historical novel of one of the most closely held secrets of World War II — and the woman caught up in it when she follows her missing sister to the mysterious city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Order The Woman With Two Shadows here.

Pre-order Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen here.

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