There are lots of things to laugh at in this world. Your toddler eating mud with a spoon (sophisticated little guy), worms wriggling their way across the blistering parking lot, forgetting they need water to survive.
Here at The Pearl, we love to laugh too. Recently, we’ve started posting humor essays, making jokes about driving, waitressing, and, of course, third-wheeling.
Humor essays not only bring a spark of joy into our lives, they also can be used to challenge our thinking or gain some perspective about an issue by making fun of it.
Writing funny takes some vulnerability, and it definitely takes some practice. But if you have a good sense of humor and something to say about the world, you should try your hand at it!
Have comedic aspirations? Holding onto a piece that made your family laugh out loud last Christmas?
Submit it to The Pearl! We’d love to give it a look.
Humor is hard, but we know some of you out there can pull it off. So what do you have to lose? You retain your copyright, and if it doesn’t get published here, you can always publish it elsewhere. You have nothing to lose.
The guidelines are simple: keep your essays under 2,000.
Everything should be from a Kingdom worldview but doesn’t have to be about Jesus or fit into the “clean” Christian box. Going dark should promote healthy discourse, not just get a reaction.
If you’re a reader and just looking forward to all the new humor essays, subscribe to our newsletter if you haven’t already! It’s the best way to stay up to date on all our great content.
And if you’re a writer, submit a humor essay now—we’re serious. Don’t hold back. Throw it at us, and see what happens. You just might get lucky.
It takes both luck and skill to get published. You might just have both.
Read the submission guidelines and submit your short work to us at submissions@pearlmag.co.
