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Caitlin Kunkel is the author of INSIDE JOKES: A COMEDY AND CREATIVITY GUIDE FOR ALL WRITERS and NEW EROTICA FOR FEMINISTS: SATIRICAL FANTASIES OF LOVE, LUST, AND EQUAL PAY. Her comedy writing has appeared on public radio and in The New Yorker's “Shouts & Murmurs,” The New York Times, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

Caitlin created The Second City’s online satire writing program that has trained and continues to train thousands of writers. She co-founded the Satire and Humor Festival and The Belladonna Comedy, was named one of the “Fifteen of the Best Humorists Writing Today” by Paste Magazine, and serves as a judge for The Thurber Prize for American Humor. She was raised in the wilds of Rhode Island.

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Caitlin Kunkel I know everyone says this, but you have to read to write. What I would add on is that you should read a LOT of genres and things outside of what you a…moreI know everyone says this, but you have to read to write. What I would add on is that you should read a LOT of genres and things outside of what you actually want to write/do write. When I started writing satire and humor, I only knew a few forms - expanded lists, short lists, open letters. But reading Daily Shouts on the New Yorker and McSweeney's every day, I saw that you can use diaries, recipes, emails, itineraries - there are so, so many formats that you can adapt into writing a humor or satire piece, or even use for an entire book, like Maria Semple's great "Where'd You Go, Bernadette." Reading outside of strictly the genre or format you write in can crack open your creativity in really unexpected and exciting ways.(less)
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New Erotica For Feminists Named #4 on Vulture's "10 Best Comedy Books of 2018!"

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"The Belladonna is the new Onion, a combination humor/fake news/lifestyle parody site from a sharp, female and/or feminist point of view that delivers precise, critical blows to toxic masculinity, the dumbass patriarchy, and dumbassery in general. In that spirit, Belladonna editors Caitlin Kunkel, Brooke Preston, Fiona Taylor, and C Read more of this blog post »
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“I walk into my office building and a sharply dressed man walks in behind me. Feeling his eyes on me, I press the lift button. It lights up.

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