The 21st PWW, organized by WICE: www.wice-paris.org
is scheduled for June
27-July 2, 2010 and hopes that you will be able to join us for an intensive week
devoted to honing your craft with a stellar
faculty.
Short Story - Sheila Kohler is the author of 7
novels and 3 collections of short stories. Becoming Jane Eyre, her latest novel,
not only describes the inner lives of the Brontë siblings, but also the creative
process of Charlotte Brontë.
Poetry -- Alice Notley has published 30 collections
of poetry. Beginning as a poet of the second
generation of the New York School, she has developed a mostly autobiographical
stream-of-consciousness style.
Creative Nonfiction -- Mimi Schwartz, the author of five books, most recently, Good
Neighbors, Bad Times, Echoes of My Father’s German Village,
was a winner of the ForeWord Book of the Year Award in Memoir for 2008 and of
the New Hampshire NHWP Outstanding Literary Nonfiction
Award.
Novel -- Matt Thorne, judge of the 2008 PWW’s
Paris Prize for fiction, is an English writer born in 1974 a who has published
seven novels. His second book Eight Minutes Idle, which drew on Thorne's
experiences of having worked in a call centre, was published in 1999 and won an
Encore Award; his 2004 novel, Cherry, was longlisted for the Brooker
Prize.
Early-Bird tuition is 650€ which includes your choice of workshop
(meeting Monday through Friday for a total of 15 hours), an individual
conference with your writer in residence, afternoon and evening events as well as the Closing Dinner on July
2nd. For an additional fee of
75€, you can sign up for an individual Agent consultation on July
2.
Two half-tuition merit Patricia Painton scholarships are available to
Registrants – deadline: April 30th. Please consult the Guidelines for
manuscript requirements.
For more information: www.pariswritersworkhop.org . Email:[email protected]