FLASH : Wednesday April 14,
2010, 7 PM - The Paris literary
magazine UPSTAIRS AT DUROC invites you to attend the first reading in their new
series, Pause on the Landing, featuring new and established writers of prose
and poetry in a convivial setting
Come hear work by JACQUELINE BISHOP (poetry),DIMITRI KERAMITAS (prose)and
SARAH EMILY MIANO (prose)
April 14,
2010, 7 PM Berkeley Books of
Paris 8 rue Casimir Delavigne 75006 Paris,
Metro Odéon
Jacqueline Bishop is the author of two collections of poems: Fauna and
Snapshots from Istanbul, both published by
Peepal Tree Press in the UK. Other publications
include My Mother Who Is Me: Life Stories from Jamaican Women in New York; Writers Who Paint, Writers
Who Write: Three Jamaican Artists; and the novel, The River’s Song. She is the
founding editor of Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters and is the
recipient of a 2008-9 Fulbright award to Morocco. She is also a visual
artist.
Dimitri Keramitas was educated at the University of Hartford (Connecticut), the Sorbonne, and
the University of London. His short fiction has
been published in many literary journals. He worked as journalist and film
reviewer for The Key, a Paris-based bimonthly, and also had film criticism
published in La Revue du Cinéma and Ink Magazine. He currently writes for
several print and online magazines.
Sarah Emily Miano is a former chef, tour guide and private eye. She
received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, studying under W.G.
Sebald. Her first novel, Encyclopaedia of Snow, was published in nine
languages, as was her second, Van Rijn, about the life of Rembrandt, which also
received a UK Arts Council Award. She lives near Paris, where she reviews
fiction for The Observer and The Times, as well as working on her next novel,
Buffalo Wings.
New Workshops:
April 19-23, 2010: Writing Conference
“Do your most authentic work in Paris.” Story and manuscript
development come alive at this five-day workshop. Develop your book, fine tune
your manuscript, and perfect your writing in progress. Writers of all levels
attend to generate new material, develop ideas, or perfect works in progress.
The conference takes place at a 4-star hotel in Paris' literary and arts
neighborhood, steps from the Louvre. Led by NY Times bestselling author and
literary agent Wendy Goldman Rohm, this retreat has been held since 2002
worldwide, originally inspired by Rohm's Masters Tea at Yale
University.http://www.pariswritersretreat.com/index.html
THRILLER - COMEDIE - LOVE STORY
22, 23 et 24 April 2010 Robert McGee: La structure
narrative des genres
See website for fees and more information
