Humor is Human
and
Laugh Conquers All
What’s Wit & Word?*
*not a speech impediment…
Wit & Word is a live event series featuring written humor, spoken by real humans.
Each event features talented writers from an array of humor disciplines—essays, first-person narratives, satire, and general cringe—performing in various venues and locations.
Humor is human. If we can laugh at ourselves, we can laugh with each other.
And if we can laugh with each other, maybe we can talk to each other.
The world needs humor.
Our Events
Wit & Word: An Evening of Written Humor for the Winter Weary
Concord Free Public Library, February 11, 2026
Recent Events:
Thursday, July 2, 6pm:
Edgartown Public Library
Martha’s Vineyard!
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Founder & Chief Humorist
Featured Writers from our Last Event:
July 2, 6pm Edgartown Public Library
Nancy Star is the author of six novels including Sisters One, Two, Three, a novel partiallyset on Martha’s Vineyard, which landed on Publishers Weekly’s list of Top Ten Bestsellers of 2016. Her most recent novel, Rules for Moving, about a beloved advice columnist whose own life is a wreck, also takes place partly on the island. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Lit Hub and The Forward, among other places. Before writing fiction full time, Nancy worked as a movie executive at the Samuel Goldwyn Company, dividing her time between New York and London. She now lives in Chilmark and New York City.
Anthony Lefeber - Anthony Lefeber restored houses and apartments in and around New York City for over four decades. Previously, he lived in Belize and Guatemala, then spent nine years on the island of Malta doing maritime work. He lives in Aquinnah MA with his family.
Rebecca “Bex” Johnson - Bex writes to expand the script for women by portraying alternative domesticity & adventure. She draws from a lifetime of politely ignoring expectations.
Shelley Christiansen’s essays and features have appeared in Martha’s Vineyard Magazine and the Vineyard Gazette. She is a past Martha’s Vineyard essayist for WCAI, the Cape & Islands NPR station. Shelley is also the author of The Wedding Guide for the Grownup Bride (Berkley Books, 2000) and a co-author of Martha's Vineyard Tile (Vineyard Stories, 2010).
Julia Kidd leads two lives- one as a psychotherapist, where she listens, and one as a writer where she speaks. She is a mother, a sister, a friend and an animal activist, refusing to eat in a restaurant with octopus on the menu. She holds an MFA from California Institute of The Arts and an MSW from New York University. Martha’s Vineyard has been home for 28 years.
Wit & Word Founder Tracy McArdle Brady is a communications executive, award-winning humorist and published novelist from Carlisle. She has held senior roles in the entertainment and advertising industries, spent 6 years running communications for corporate cannabis companies, and survived raising two teenage boys while navigating perimenopause and building a house. She has written for The Boston Globe, Weekly Humorist, Adweek, Fortune, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, and The Belladonna Comedy. She writes about the things everyone thinks but no one says.
Featured Writers from our past events
Kristen Mulrooney is a humor writer from Chelmsford. Her work has been featured in many outlets including The New Yorker and McSweeney's, where she is the voice behind the Letters to Mom column. She is a recipient of the Erma Bombeck Humorist-in-Residence award and has written humor books and cookbooks, and recently starred in a viral Vera Bradley ad campaign.
Billy Baker is a features writer at The Boston Globe, and the author of “We Need to Hang Out,” a book about how adults stink at friendship, especially men. He grew up in Southie, lives on Cape Ann, and is a two-time finalist for “member of the month” at his gym.
Viktoria Shulevich is a Boston-based humor writer. You can find her work in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, LA Times, and WBUR’s Cognoscenti—or request a private reading of select pages of her 3rd-grade diary. She’s been featured on multiple “best of the year” lists and was selected for St. Nell’s humor writing residency in 2023. Her dog has been described as having a less-than-average urge to please.
Chris Sharp is the Concord-based author of the fantasy novels The Elementalists and Cold Counsel and the head copywriter at a boutique marketing agency. He grew up in Alexandria, VA, where he cut his nerd teeth playing role-playing games and making gore movies with his friends. His most recent film role was a feral grocery store executive on a bender in The Shitheads, which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
MC Jonathan Soroff began his journalism career at The Boston Herald and, for 28 years, was the lead columnist for The Improper Bostonian magazine. He has written for publications ranging from People to the Royal Academy Magazine and The South China Morning Post. He is currently a columnist for Boston Magazine, writing a social column, the “Person of Interest” interview, and travel content. He lives in Newton.
