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Hey everybody, and welcome back to another Summer Series Newsletter! We just wanted to pop on here and address some rumors that have been swirling around like crazyyy— we will be going on a submission break. But don’t worry, it’s only for two weeks! Our break will be from Monday, August 21, through Labor Day, Monday, September 4. You can keep submitting to our inbox, just know that you may not receive a response within the typical three week response time because we’ll be out. We also won’t be publishing new pieces for those two weeks. During the break we’ll plan on chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin’, all cool, so that we can get refreshed and recharged to come back for fall!
Additionally, THANK YOU to everyone who attended our Medium Day Q&A! We had a lot of fun answering your questions and talking all things satire. And thank you to Medium for inviting us to be a part of Medium Day this year!
We’ll see you in a couple weeks, buddies, and enjoy another segment of our Summer Series Newsletter interviews, and a recap of what we’ve published in the last week!
INTERVIEW WITH KELSEY DEEMER
Kelsey Deemer is a Belladonna contributor and a writer based in Boston. She has proudly written for the water tower, Güder News, and bathroom stalls at bars. You can follow Kelsey @kDeemzz on Twitter. Thanks so much to Kelsey for allowing us to interview her!
Do you have any role models in this field?
I have an ever expanding list. Twitter is how I find most of the comedians I admire. Sydney Battle and Jaboukie Young-White have made me laugh for years now. Atskuo Okatsuka is a newer favorite of mine. Early videos from Please Don’t Destroy, so excellent. Michael Messineo and his long form deep dive videos on TV shows and pop culture, SO excellent. They aren’t in the field, but the older I get the more I recognize the huge impact my mother and grandparents had on my sense of humor. They played cards and spit jokes for hours at family functions; I was welcomed to the table as soon as my hands were big enough to hold the cards.
What drew you to writing humor pieces?
In college I joined The Water Tower, a club that put out a biweekly satire newspaper. This group asked me, “what if you fleshed out your twitter draft 500 more words and made it take up half a page with illustration?” Seriously, my humor writing would have very likely stayed in tweets had I not joined this group. The writers and artists I collaborated with on The Water Tower are some of the most talented creatives I’ve ever met. They inspired me, they challenged me, and they made me better. They still make me better today! Read The Water Tower.
It seems like you lean on your personal experiences for writing inspiration. How do you decide which parts of your life you feel comfortable writing about and having people laugh at?
If there is a part of my life that I am uncomfortable writing about I haven’t found it yet. I think this is a very naïve answer but I’ll allow myself to lean into my immaturity! I’m pretty young in my writing career and at this time I’m happy to write unabashedly about my personal life as long as it is bolstering the story or joke.
How do you decide how to format your pieces?
I definitely have a teen magazine, J-14 brain when it comes to formatting. When writing a piece I’m always asking myself, “could this be better as a quiz? A flowchart, even?” The Daily Itineraries on The Belladonna is such a superb example of good formatting. The itineraries are digestible for readers and malleable for writers. Reading those on my first peruse of The Belladonna website absolutely influenced me to submit my first piece.
How do you deal with the struggles of the writing process, and keeping yourself motivated?
I love running for the mental stimulation and stress relief, even though it is hard to start a workout some days. Writing presents similar difficulties and rewards, but with the added bonus of a funny final product to share with my loved ones. Producing a piece I’m really proud of is fulfilling but hearing my mother’s laugh when she reads my words is heart swelling gratification. Hearing a friend’s laugh makes me feel like we were always destined to laugh together. And hearing a stranger laugh? I can feel the invisible red thread pulling our kinship closer. I love making people laugh, it’s a huge motivation to keep writing. I hope I am funny forever.
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I’ve been checking all day, but I see you haven’t selected a winner yet. I hope you didn’t read that recipe and decide to keep the corn!
Getting Dressed to See the Barbie Movie is Giving Me a Whole-Ass Existential Crisis by Erin Weller
Where the fuck did everyone get these pink clothes??
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They both survived the Great War
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Behold: the Swear Loaf.
Choreplay Sexts From Middle-Aged Married People by Shannon J Curtin
Dave next door was totally checking out our lawn. Knowing that other people think about our grass…well, it’s a turn on.
We, Your Child’s Day Camp, Suggest You Send In A Crazy Amount Of Stuff For This Upcoming Field Trip by Rochelle E. Fisher
These are just suggestions, but they are also mandatory requirements.
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The “pink stuff” appears to be coating everything.
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Thanks for reading, and keep being your amazing selves!
— The Belladonna Editors
(Emily, Emily, Heidi, and Kristen)
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