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
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Founder & Chief Humorist
Wit & Word founder Tracy McArdle Brady is a communications executive, award-winning humorist, and published novelist from Carlisle. She has taught at Grub Street, worked in Hollywood, drafted talking points for donut executives, banking professionals and cannabis billionaires, and 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 most recent event
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 and has written humor books, 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, 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.
