Pat Myers

Washington, D.C.

Editor and judge of The Style Invitational since December 2003 Education: University of Maryland at College Park, BA in economics, 1980

 Pat Myers is editor and judge of The Style Invitational, The Washington Post's page for clever, edgy humor and wordplay. Myers has posted and judged more than 700 contests, from elaborate song parodies to Your Mama jokes, since she began with the page in December 2003. She writes the weekly Style Conversational column and runs the lively Style Invitational Devotees page on Facebook.

Myers was a copy editor on the Style desk from 1982 to 2008, serving 12 years as desk chief. Before that, she was a copy editor for Baltimore magazine and a firm that edited government reports. She learned the craft of copy editing at the Diamondback, the daily paper of the University of Maryland.

Latest from Pat Myers

Style Conversational Week 1310: Once more once more

Your parody didn’t get ink this week? You have another chance.

Dec 13, 2018

Style Invitational Week 1310: The Year in Redo, Part 2

Enter any Invite from the past 6 months. Plus zingy holiday-song parodies about the news.

Dec 13, 2018

Style Conversational Week 1309: Here we go again ...

The Empress tells how to find the 25 contests for this week’s Style Invitational do-over.

Dec 6, 2018

Style Invitational Week 1309: The Year in Redo, Part 1

Enter any (or all) of 25 Invite contests from the past year. Plus top Googlenopes and -yups.

Dec 6, 2018

Style Conversational Week 1308: The devil in the detail

The Style Invitational Empress looks back on that little thing in a 1995 cartoon.

Nov 29, 2018

Style Invitational Week 1308: Picture This . . . or These

Our Bob Staake caption contest with a twist. Plus winning what-if scenarios.

Nov 29, 2018

Style Conversational Week 1307: And then there was one

The Style Invitational Empress ruminates all over this week’s contest and results.

Nov 21, 2018

Style Invitational Week 1307: One for one, for all — a neologism contest

Replace one letter in a word with another — plus the winning two-for-twos

Nov 21, 2018

Style Conversational Week 1306: Parodies — a genre you Noel

The Style Invitational Empress on this week’s parody contest and Ask Backwards ink

Nov 15, 2018