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Paris Cocktails: 55 bars in six weeks!

Doni Belau, author of the famous Girls Guide to Paris,  has a new book, Paris Cocktails,  and it's  getting rave reviews (see NYT).  Paris Writers News was curious. How does a Paris writer end up getting paid to hit 55 bars in Paris in only six weeks?...    

55 Paris bars in six weeks - researching is not for weak livers

a Paris Writers News guest post,

by

Doni Belau,

author of Paris Cocktails

 

Surviving 55 bars in six weeks in Paris was no mean feat.

October Writing Workshops in Paris

Jailed author Stephan Templ: inventoried Jewish property kept by Austrians

I must apologize to PWN readers. The Paris author/event update will be late this month. Fortunately for Paris Writers, Jen Dick's outstanding Fall Literary Event List is available, and listed below are writing workshops on offer this month.

On  Kafkaesque  charges  defying logic, law and decency in equal measure, Austria has imprisoned  Our Vienna author Stephan Templ.  A change.org petition now exists to demand his freedom.  Writers, bloggers: for more information or to see how you can help, please contact me at pariswritersnews AT gmail.com.

 

LINKS TO WRITING WORKSHOPS IN PARIS

-  NEW! Write-in Paris (WIP) with Sion Dayson:  Communal scribble sessions in a cozy environment. Each weekly meeting offers 2 hours of dedicated writing time + 30 minutes of discussion. A great way to focus on your work in the company of creative people. Daytime WIP: Mondays, 3-5:30 pm. Evening WIP, Thursdays, 7-9:30 pm. Upcoming sessions: 2-week vacances scolaire special (25 euros) and 6-week session starting early November (90 euros). Tea and water provided. Contact Sion Dayson at [email protected] to sign up!

- WICE Creative Writing Classes for all levels and interests:

* The Craft of Memoir Writing with Meg Bortin,

* Paris Vignettes and Travel Blogging with Gary Lee Kraut

* Short Story Writing with Alecia McKenzie

* The Language of Fiction with Dr. Gretel Furner

 - Paris Lit Up Drop in Writing Workshops: Sat 15-17h. see ParisLitUp for details on what to bring and how. (upstairs at L’Autre Café, 62 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud).

 

The Other Writers' Group Drop-in feedback workshop held every Sunday upstairs at Shakespeare & Company (37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005) 6.30pm-8.30pm. We look at the praticalities of how a poem or story works - or doesn't. 6 euros. Bring 10 copies of a poem or of 3-4 pages of prose or just come and listen. More info at http://spokenwordparis.org/the-other-writers-group/

 

- The Paris Writers Group: Weds;  open to all writers and free (please buy  a beverage or food from the host cafe) with John Pope and/or Helen Cusack O’Keeffe.

 

- The Paris Master Class Workshop with Shannon Cain: free, graduate level, by application only. Send about 10 pages of recent writing to [email protected]. 

 

- Writers' Meet-ups in Paris: 

 

- Maxine Rose Schur Children's Book Writing Workshop

 

 

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Vengeful Austria Jails Whistleblowing Author

 

Stephan Templ is the co-author of Unser Wien a book published in 2001 that documented, with exact addresses, the thousands of properties seized from the Jews in Vienna.  Don't let the smears fool you. This is payback for what he wrote. And intimidation of historians and claimants alike. If you are a journalist or blogger, this is an important story.

For more information see:

Guardian -  Kate Connolly - 

Open Letter to Dr Werner Pleischl General Prokurator

Bloomberg - Peter S Green

Artnews - William D Cohan

NYT - Steven Erlanger "Vienna Skewered as a Nazi-Era Pillager of Its Jews" 

Excerpts in English from Unser Wien, A Topography of a Robbery /A Treasure Map to Nazi Loot in Vienna

Examples of must-visit landmarks owned until Anschluss by Jews, or notable Austrians living in property seized from Jews and never returned - entrees that explain why Templ became such a target for retribution

• Sigmund Freud’s flat
• The Ferris Wheel
• Hotel Imperial
• Franz Vranitzky, Prime Minister
• Adolf Schärf, President of Austria
•  Karl Böhm, conductor
• Franz “Ferry” Dusika

Press Releases

 More Background here

The use of a "fraud" charge as a way of destroying a whistleblower for telling the truth is particularly nasty. This is, unfortunately, not the first time this tactic has been used.  

See our upcoming interview about Hans Deutsch, a German lawyer who was smeared with forgeries, lost all his assets to seizure, and was locked up in solitary confinement - all for helping Holocaust victims reclaim their stolen assets in courts of law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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by Dimitri Keramitas, WICE Creative Writing Director

 

Every year, WICE presents a range of writing courses at its rue de Tiphaine offices in the 15th arrondissement. Classes, typically five or six 2-hour sessions, are given in the Fall and Spring. This year the program includes the Language of Fiction, and The Migrant Soul taught by WICE veteran Gretel Furner; the Craft of Memoir-Writing by International Herald Tribune journalist/editor Meg Borton; Shaping the Short Story, by Jamaican-born artist, journalist, and writer Alecia McKenzie, Paris Vignettes II and Paris Travel Blogging by travel writer Gary Lee Kraut (the last class is exceptional in taking place outside the classroom, in selected spots around Paris). The classes are open to all, from the beginner to the already published.