This week, news from Paris Writers Alexis Niki, L'Inébranlable, Katy Masuga, Anne Marsella, Gallimard, Cara Black, Jamie Cat Callan, Carolyn Burke, Jennifer Butler, Gary Lee Kraut, Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, David Lebovitz, Leslie Dunton-Downer, Stephen Clarke, and Writers Meet-ups in Paris.
NEWS
My Bitchy Witchy Vacation won Outstanding Achievement Award in Cinematography and Editing at the LA Webfest. Congratulations to Alexis Niki and all the cast and crew!!
L'Inébranlable, the newspaper of the Lycée Edouard Branly, won best newspaper in the Créteil Academy! Bravo to the entire team!
Stephen Clarke is back with Paris Revealed!
Katy Masuga's The Secret Violence of Henry Miller is now out!
Carolyn Burke's biography of Edith Piaf, No Regrets is now available!
Anne Marsella's Proust Questionnaires appear each week on Paris Writers News!
Gallimard celebrates 100 years!
Writers Meetups Groups in Paris ! (contact directly for more information)
ON TOUR
Cara Black is touring in the USA for Murder in Passy! (Watch for her upcoming interview with Paris Writers News!)
Jamie Cat Callan is touring for Bonjour Happiness !
RECENT INTERVIEWS WITH PARIS AUTHORS
Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
LITERARY EVENTS IN PARIS
18 April 19h Leslie Dunton- Downer discusses The English is Coming! How one language is sweeping the world. ‘A fascinating intellectual romp through the past and the future of the English language AT Shakespeare & Co
jeudi 21 avril 2011 at 19:30 Paris Writers Group Meet-up
26 April 19h Stephen Clarke talks about A Brief History of the Future AT WH Smith RSVP
27 April 19h Nicole Krauss reads from Great House, finalist for the 2010 National Book Award AT Village Voice Bookshop
28 April 19h Joseph McElroy reads from Night Soul and Other Stories. Joseph McElroy has received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Ingram Merrill Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts. AT Village Voice Bookshop
30 April 16h-18h David Lebovitz signs The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious -- and Perplexing -- City which is now available in paperback AT WH Smith 248 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris. RSVP (You can read our interview with David here!)
And don't forget! Spoken Word every Monday night starting at 8:30 pm, til late
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WORKSHOPS AND RETREATS
APRIL 16 Geneva , short fiction, with guest instructor Geeta Kothari. She will teach both morning and afternoon, working with story architecture and creating a concrete World. Geeta was one of our most popular instructors at the Geneva Writers Conference 2010 and we are very happy to welcome her back. Please register by email with attached form or directly by email to Katie Hayoz, katiehayoz AT yahoo.com.
APRIL : Toby Brothers offers intensive workshops on great works of literature. For more information please contact: litsalon AT gmail.com
APRIL : Heather Stimmler Hall, author of Secrets in Paris, is offering a writing seminar on travel writing. For more information please see: http://www.secretsofparis.com/travel-writing-seminar/
Raising the Stakes in Your Stories: Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. April 5, 26; May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 In this workshop you will learn various ways to increase the stakes of a story to keep the reader engaged. There will be no in-class writing exercises, no assignments, no proposed subjects about which to write. Instead, bring your works in progress—Fiction and Non-Fiction alike—and receive concrete and savvy feedback from other serious writers, including long-time WICE member and now volunteer instructor, Bob Levy, who has been writing short fiction and literary memoirs for 21 years. His work has appeared in countless journals, as well as the Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Bay Guardian, and he has received awards including the 'Langston Hughes Award' in 2001, a Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award in 2001, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. Fee: 85€ andyou must be a member of WICE to attend. Pre-registration required.
MAY Paris Writers Retreat May 23 - 27, http://www.pariswritersretreat.com/index.html
Registration is now open. Limited to 20 writers - Wendy Goldman Rohm
JUNE: Writing events in the creative arts centre in the beautiful Burgundy countryside this year. In June Jessica Duchen author of ‘Songs of triumphant love’ will be here leading ‘Kick-start your writing’ and in September Miriam Halahmy will be guiding you through ‘Turning Memoire into Fiction’. at www.thereallybigdreamcompany.com Janice Barnett In addition, the venue can be used by writers as their personal retreat should they wish for a place away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life or by other tutors who may wish to run a retreat.
June 15 - 22, 2011: Abroad Writers' Conference w/Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler at Manoir Chaussee in Langon, Brittany. Price for workshops including rooms/6 dinners, $3,500 single and $2,500 shared twin. If you're interested in attending or giving a reading, please contact, [email protected].
WORDMEADOW Our next Creative Writing Workshops are directed by the skilled tutor Andrew Greig, multi-award winning author, considered to be one of the leading Scottish writers of his generation. Encompassing all genres, this Spring residential course takes place the 1-5 June in the glorious Giffre Valley in the French Alps. Please see our website, www.wordmeadow.com for further details. Price; £580
Editing services:
Fred Coleman, a published author (“The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire”, St. Martin’s Press) and a retired journalist based in Paris (former Newsweek bureau chief in Moscow and Paris and executive editor of Newsweek International in New York) is taking on book editing projects in nonfiction. Offers copy editing, rewrite suggestions and advice for getting a manuscript published. Inquiries or book proposals, but no manuscripts please, [email protected]
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SUBMISSIONS
Bomb Magazine is currently accepting submissions for its 2011 Fiction contest. Deadline is April 16th. More information here.
