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Funny Women

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Funny Women is a column for literary, feminist humor writing by non-men. Previous pieces have been anthologized out of wedlock in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Oxford University Press’s Humor: A Reader for Writers, and Reader’s Digest. Edited by Elissa Bassist author of Hysterical. Submit your funny writing here.

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FUNNY WOMEN #2: A Play About Post-Racial America in Seven Acts

  • Roxane Gay
  • September 17, 2009
(or Seven Things White People Have Really Said to Me Since November 4, 2008)
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The Revolution Has Begun

  • Elissa Bassist
  • September 8, 2009
Dear writers and readers, Finally! The inaugural post for the new Rumpus column Funny Women can be read here. This is just the beginning. You, the writers and readers, will…
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FUNNY WOMEN #1: The New Rumpus Humor Column: I Am Sorry That I Didn’t Write a Comedy Piece

  • Wendy Molyneux
  • September 8, 2009
I guess it's time for me to get serious about writing this comedy piece. Emoticon.
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Funny Women Submission Guidelines

  • Elissa Bassist
  • August 19, 2009
Dear Writers, So, you’ve decided you’re a woman or gender non-conforming writer and would like to submit to Funny Women. Out of all decisions, this is the best one you…
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Funny Women

  • Elissa Bassist
  • August 13, 2009
I have been thinking a lot about funny women. I’m going to tell you what’s good before I tell you what’s very, very bad.
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The Women of McSweeneys.net

  • Elissa Bassist
  • June 19, 2009
“Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women?” inquired Christopher Hitchens in “Why Women Aren’t Funny,” Vanity Fair, January 2007. That’s a good question. And…
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Funny Women Experiment: Funny Women Zero

  • Elissa Bassist
  • May 16, 2009
This is Elissa’s…
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