Did you know you have a superpower that will help your writing not just stand out, but leap off the page?

Infusing your writing with humour is a powerful and fun way to approach whatever story you’re working on. Whether you have a dry, understated sense of irony or a completely wild and absurdist comedic voice, whether you’re working on a story that’s inherently funny or one that feels pretty serious and heavy, this 6-week workshop will help you understand your unique sense of humour, harness it, and weave it into your writing.

You don’t need any experience with comedy or satire – you just need to show up with a piece of writing you’re working on and a willingness to play.

Sophie Kohn is a humour writer and instructor originally from Toronto. Her humour writing has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Chatelaine, and Reader's Digest. For many years, Sophie was the head writer on various shows on CBC Radio and CBC TV, including q with Tom Power, George Strouboulopoulos Tonight, and GO! with Brent Bambury, and in 2015, she became the founding editor of the CBC Comedy satirical news website. 

Sophie is a graduate of the Second City conservatory program in improv and sketch comedy and went on to become a stand-up comedian in Toronto. Prior to the pandemic, Sophie created, produced, and hosted a monthly live show called Forever Jung, in which standup comics did a set and then got analyzed by a therapist live on the stage. About five years ago, Sophie designed a satire and humour writing class for Second City, which she continues to teach virtually to students all over the world. 

In addition to writing humour, Sophie writes creative nonfiction. Her personal essays and memoir have been published in Hazlitt, The Globe and Mail, Today's Parent, and Outpost. In 2018, Sophie was a finalist at the National Magazine Awards for her memoir "A Body in Motion", which is about the major spinal deformity that derailed her ballet career. NPR picked up the story in 2023 and aired an audio version of it on their storytelling show Snap Judgment. Later that year, Sophie was the runner-up for the International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir for her essay “The Almost-Dad”. (You can read that story HERE.)

Sophie's first children's book, Katrina Hyena, is about a laughing hyena who laughs at the wrong times and will be published in October 2024 by Owlkids Books. She lives in beautiful Nelson, B.C. with her partner, her extremely floofy Siberian forest cat, and her endlessly hilarious 4-year-old son.

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