LitUp Writers seeks humorous first-person essays about family – stories that involve your family, their quirks, rituals, routines and family bonding. Anything goes as long as it’s related to family. Ideally, we seek pieces that are both funny and personal; stories that reveal something about the author through a humorous lens.
Selected stories will be read, [...]
LitUp Writers is now seeking humor essays about romance for our upcoming show on July 20, 2010. Send us your funny first-person essays about love, romance, breakups and broken hearts. Ideally, we seek pieces that are both funny, but also personal; stories that reveal something about the author through a humorous lens.
Selected stories [...]
LitUp Writers seeks humorous first-person essays about travel – journeys taken for recreation, business or family obligations. Ideally, we seek pieces that are both funny, but also personal; stories that reveal something about the author through a humorous lens.
Selected stories will be read, by the authors, before a live audience on Thursday, April 15, [...]
LitUp Writers seeks humorous first-person essays about new beginnings, times you have reinvented your own wheel, transformed yourself or attempted a personal upgrade. Stories of either wild success or horrific failure are welcome. Selected stories will be read before a live audience on Thursday, January 21, 2010 at the Space Gallery in San Francisco. A [...]
Call for Submissions for Humor Reading
The Lit Up Writers inaugural reading series seeks first-person humor narratives for its upcoming event, “Hello My Name is…” All submissions must address the topic of names, branding and/or identity. This could be about your own name, a time you changed your name, your band’s name, your company’s name or [...]