Calendar of Events
Event
- Title:
- WICE @ The Library - Writers on Writing: Vehicles to get your work seen
- When:
- Tue 08 June 2010 19h30
- Where:
- The American Library in Paris - Paris
- Category:
- @ The Library
Description
As a writer, it's easy to feel solitary. All alone at your desk in a dark corner of your small room. But there's power in people pushing you forward, which we all need sometimes - someone to ask, "What's holding you back? Why aren't you getting your work out there? Are you alone in this?"
From open mic night, guest editing and book publishing to blogs, the Nintendo DS, and social networking, this evening is about exploring the myriad of creative vehicles - including the pros and cons - to getting your work seen, be it fiction, non-fiction or poetry, and to getting you into the creative communities that make writing live.
About the panel (from left to right)
Heather Hartley is the author of Knock Knock and Paris Editor for Tin House magazine. Her essays and interviews have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies including Food and Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast; and Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. She curates Shakespeare & Company Bookshop's weekly reading series and teaches creative writing and poetry at the American University of Paris. In her spare time, she enjoys Neapolitan coffee, Dorothy Parker, cheesecake and writing up against a deadline.
Jennifer K Dick is the author of Fluorescence, Retina & Enclosures. Her prose, interviews, reviews, translations and poetry have appeared in more than 50 magazines & 8 anthologies. She has taught creative writing for Colorado State University, Oxbridge Summer Programs, École Polytechnique & WICE as well as coordinated an internship for Lesley University's MFA program. She earned her PhD and DEA at Paris III on the visual use of the page in poetry, has an MFA from Colorado State University, and a BA from Mount Holyoke. She was editor of Upstairs at Duroc literary magazine for 4 years & currently is on the poetry staff of VERSAL magazine (Amsterdam). In 2009 she edited a section for Cleaves (UK) & an guest-selected issue of RoToR (French) is forthcoming.
Laurel Zuckerman is the author of Sorbonne Confidential and Les Rêves Barbares du Professeur Collie. A dual national and HEC graduate, Laurel's wickedly humorous account of her attempt to pass an elite exam for English teachers caused an uproar in France. Her essays and interviews have appeared in Hommes et Commerces, Cahiers Pédagogiques, The Paris Times, Le Point, Le Monde, Le Monde de l'Education, The Guardian, The Times, as well as on France 24, TF1, RFI, and the BBC. She is working on a short story collection about Arizona and editing Paris Writers News.
