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Gordon Kirkland & Friends
I am extremely fortunate to have worked with some great writers over the years. These friends are a constant source of inspiration, and I wouldn't be where I am today without them.
Nancy Warren
I couldn't ask for a better friend in the business than Nancy. She is a USA Today best-selling author for her many women's fiction novels, and is now branching into mystery and screenwriting. Nancy and I hope to collaborate on a number of projects in the near future.
Matt Bombeck
Matt and I first met while teaching at the Erma Bombeck Writer's Workshop (named in honor of his mother) at the University of Dayton in 2004. In the ensuing years, we have become good friends. Matt is a screenwriter who focuses on made-for-television movies. He's had projects developed at CBS and ABC and produced at NBC. He won the Writers Guild of America award for long-form television in 1994. Matt and I are looking to collaborate on projects in the near future.
Ridley Pearson
Ridley and I first met at a writer's conference in 1996. We worked together on a spectacular writing conference for high school seniors in 1999. Ridley has been a good friend that I can turn to for advice and inspiration. Every word that Ridly puts down on paper inspires me to be a better writer.
Lynn Johnston
Most people know Lynn Johnston through the character of Elly Patterson in her hugely successful comic strip, For Better or For Worse. I know Lynn as a dear friend, who can brighten the dullest day, even if she says she's glad she isn't married to me!
Dave Barry
Dave and I both taught at the 2006 Erma Bombeck Writer's Workshop at the University of Dayton. What can you say about the man who blazed the trail for humor writers by winning the Pulitzer Prize. As he says, we are both class clowns suffering from maturity impairment.
Bruce Cameron
Bruce and I taught at the 2004 Erma Bombeck Writer's Workshop at the University of Dayton. Bruce's column and mine ran in competing newspapers in the US. Several years ago he wrote a column about having teenage boys arrive to date one of his daughters. That column, titled Eight SImple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter became the basis for the hit TV sitcom starring the late John Ritter. His latest book takes it all step further with Eight Simple Rules For Marrying My Daughter. He's a good friend who is evy bit as goofy and demented as he says I am.
Tony Cochrane
Tony and I have been friends since we first met in 2004, when we first met at the Erma Bombeck Writer's Workshop. His syndicated cartoon Agnes, pops up on my computer screen every morning. Together with our mutual friends, Matt, Andy and Betsy Bombeck, we always have a great time together trying to make one another laugh with a mouthful of coffee.
Garrison Keillor
Nancy Cartwright
Don Novello
The Gordon Kirkland & Friends Program
Gordon Kirkland & Friends is a unique author event program featuring readings and a lighthearted interview between writer and writer about the featured author's books, writing style, and life in general. The program gives audiences an opportunity to gain a more intimate knowledge about the authors and their works. To arrange a program in your bookstore or theater contact gkandfriends @ gordonkirkland.com (remove spaces around the @ symbol when pasting address into your email program.)
Gordon Kirkland received Canada's Stephen Leacock Award of Merit for Humour for Justice Is Blind - And Her Dog Just Peed In My Cornflakes in 2000, for Never Stand Behind A Loaded Horse in 2005, and for When My Mind Wanders It Brings Back Souvenirs in 2006. This site makes extensive use of pdf files, which require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this software, click here to download it. ©1994-2008 Gordon Kirkland. No part of this webpage may be copied without the written permission of the copyright holder .
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