Online Humor Writing

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Learn how writing short humorous pieces for publishing outlets can support your screenwriting career.

What you can learn.

Learn to adapt ideas that fall short of full-length screen stories but can thrive as brief published works
Explore the kinds of humor writing published in major print and digital outlets
Engage in group and solo writing exercises to generate headline ideas
Learn how to submit your writing to these outlets

About this course:

If you want to be a published writer, and if you're sitting on a hyper-specific comical observation that doesn't exactly need to become a full screenplay or novel, then online humor writing may be the perfect format for you! In this workshop, we'll explore different types of humor writing that get published in outlets like The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Reductress and more. Through group and solo writing exercises, we'll generate headline ideas and outline how to expand select headlines into full pieces. Plus, we'll demystify what it looks like to actually submit to humor websites, setting each student up with all the skills necessary to see a piece from conception to publication.

Winter 2025 Schedule

March 8

Saturday 10:00AM - 1:00PM PT

Future Offering (Opens February 21, 2025 12:00:00 AM)

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Instructor: Mary Gulino

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Live Online

Location: UCLA X Open

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Notes

Enrollment opens two weeks prior to the event. Enrollment limited; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required.

This course is held via video teleconference. Instructors use Zoom to offer live class meetings at the designated class meeting time. Students must be present at the course meeting time as each student’s final grade may include scores for participation. Please inform your instructor if you will miss a class meeting. You are responsible for any class information you missed. We suggest you arrange with a fellow classmate to share their notes when feasible.

Course Requirements

Internet access required to retrieve course materials.

Schedule

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Date

Time

Location

Online

Sat Mar 8, 2025

10:00AM PT - 1:00PM PT

UCLA X Open