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Humor Week JUNE MELBY |
The Daily Palette: Humor Week All this week, the Daily Palette will be celebrating some of our most amusing artists and writers! We hope you enjoy this selection of funny, silly, or even outrageous essays, stories, and works of art!
JUNE MELBY June Melby's memoir, "My Family and Other Hazards," a story about her family's 1950s era miniature golf course in Wisconsin, was released on July 8, 2014 (Henry Holt & Co). A former standup comedian, June has been published in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Utne Reader, LAWeekly, Water~Stone, and Versal, among others. About Iowa Writes Since 2006, Iowa Writes has featured the work of Iowa-identified writers (whether they have Iowa roots or live here now) and work published by Iowa journals and publishers on The Daily Palette. Iowa Writes features poetry, fiction, or nonfiction twice a week on the Palette. In November of 2008, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated Iowa City, Iowa, the world's third City of Literature, making the community part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Iowa City has joined Edinburgh, Scotland and Melbourne, Australia as UNESCO Cities of Literature. Find out more about submitting by contacting iowa-writes@uiowa.edu |
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