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51st INSTALLMENT : 11/12/07 : Special installment in support of the Writers Guild of America strike featuring EIGHT essays from previous installments, all written by WGA members.

Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come for You?
by George McGrath
(4 time Emmy-nominee; writer and actor on Pee-wee's Playhouse, Tracey Takes On; Ex-Groundling.)

Diamonds
by Jill Soloway
(Award-winning writer/producer Dirty Sexy Money, Six Feet Under; Author of acclaimed memoir Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants.)

One Single Christmas
by Jenny Bicks
(Creator/Executive Producer Men in Trees, Executive Producer/Writer Sex and the City; Emmy and Golden Globe winner.)

Let's Stop Here, Dad
by Judd Pillot

(TV writer/producer According to Jim, Eight Simple Rules, Mad About You, Just Shoot Me, and Coach. Has won Emmy, Peabody, and Cable Ace awards.)

A-One and A-Two-A Macadamia Nuts
By Maxine Lapiduss
(TV writer/producer Dharma and Greg, Ellen, Roseanne, Home Improvement; Emmy, Golden Globe and People's Choice winner; Starred in Bravo's reality show Situation: Comedy)

West Side Story
By Claudia Lonow
(Created the Showtime TV show Rude Awakening and Oxygen's Good Girls Don't; Co-executive producer, Less than Perfect and The War at Home; Actress, played Diana Fairgate on Knots Landing.)

Humping U
By Kristin Newman
(Writer/producer How I Met Your Mother, the Farrelly Brothers' new Fox sitcom Unhitched, and the last seven seasons of That 70's Show.)

My Emotionally Challenged Christmas
by Cindy Caponera

(Second City alum; Actress, playwright; TV writer/producer Saturday Night Live, That '80s Show, Strangers with Candy, My Boys.)

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52nd INSTALLMENT : 4/26/08 : DELUXE installment featuring EIGHT fresh essays .

Lucky Day
by Elisabeth R. Finch
(Award-winning playwright, works have been produced in New York; Currently writer's asst. on HBO's True Blood.)

My Mother-In-Law's Vagina
by Meredith Gordon
(Playwright, including one-woman show The Bride is from California; writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan.)

(Un)Becoming (of) a Grandfather
by Jack Burditt

(Journalist and sitcom writer, Mad About You, Frasier, Watching Ellie; Currently Writer/Co-Executive Producer on 30 Rock.)

Queen of Hearts
by Debbie Kasper
(Emmy-nominated writer, Rosie O'Donnell Show, Roseanne; Author, Bras and Penus on a Date.)

Equator, Equator, You Said You Would Be There
by Cassandra Wiseman
(Awarded a Presidents Fellowship to translate and produce 3 Russian plays; Actress, Starship, regular on TV show Sons and Daughters. )

The Very Idea
by Despard Murgatroyd
(Published author and award-winning playwright; work has been published in the Philadelphia Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, etc.)

Meet the Satans
by Alexander Gelfand
(Writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice, the Forward, and Wired.com.)

Excerpt from À la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers
by Hillary Carlip

(Creator, host, and editor of FRESH YARN; Award-winning author of four books including À la Cart and the memoir Queen of the Oddballs. Has appeared on Oprah and Ellen.)

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