FAST FUNNY WOMEN 75 Essays of Flash Non-Fiction

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp in Conversation with Gina Barreca

FAST FUNNY WOMEN is a broad collection: 75 women writers, ages 20 to 89, were invited by editor Gina Barreca to make a party out of their life’s most unnerving, challenging, illuminating, desperate, and hilarious moments. Political campaigners, devoted teachers, lousy daughters, good mothers, would-be nuns, admired sportswriters, grad-school wanna-bes, revenge-driven sisters, frustrated roommates, body-fluid sorting professionals, lace-loving fashion mavens, intrepid daters, hungry lovers, justice-seeking nasty-women, ACE wedding celebrants, trapped wives, and women with all kinds of ammunition tell their stories—and their new stories are all under 750 words. You know the works of many of these dazzling writers and brilliant women, but you’ve never heard them like this. The emerging writers will enthrall you and the writers you know by heart will astonish you. Good writing reflects and illuminates life; great flash non-fiction holds up a compact mirror. In it you’ll see yourself.

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This program is FREE and open to the public.

Hailed as “smart and funny” by People magazine and “Very, very funny. For a woman,” by Dave Barry, Dr. Gina Barreca was deemed a “feminist humor maven” by Ms. Magazine. Novelist Wally Lamb said “Barreca’s prose, in equal measures, is hilarious and humane." Her work has appeared in most major publications, including The New York Times, The Independent of London, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Cosmopolitan, and The Harvard Business Review; her blog for Psychology Today has over 7 million views. Gina, who is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Connecticut and winner of UConn’s highest award for excellence in teaching is the author of the bestselling They Used to Call Me Snow White But I Drifted: Women’s Strategic Use of Humor, Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Coeducation in the Ivy League, Perfect Husbands and Other Fairy Tales, as well as seven other books; she is the editor of seventeen others, including Don’t Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing, The Signet Book of American Humor, and Fast Funny Women: 75  Essays of Flash Non-Fiction, published in March of 2021.

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp is an award-winning freelance writer and syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. She is the Media Director for the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, member of the Cincinnati Enquirer Editorial Board, and a board member for the Cincinnati Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Bonnie has contributed essays to three anthologies, the most recent one being Fast Funny Women: 75  Essays of FlashNon-Fiction

She lives with her family in Northern Kentucky where she also serves on the Fort Thomas Forest Conservancy Board. Find Bonnie on social media @WriterBonnie or at WriterBonnie.com.