The Great Emu War

Try your hand at comedic writing by chronicling the events of the ‘Great Emu War’ in Australia, a real event where military was deployed against birds.

This lesser-known historical event involved the Australian military launching a ‘war’ against emus, a large flightless bird, in an effort to control their population and protect farmland. It’s an inherently absurd situation that lends itself well to tongue-in-cheek humor, irony and exaggeration, and can be a great starting point for experimenting with comic storytelling.