02 December 2013

DECEMBER 2013 readings and literature events in Paris, France with calls for book manuscripts, announcements of recent publications and more

THE DECEMBER LISTING is HERE! 


Part I) Paris Events and READINGS by date in DECEMBER

Part II) Writing, and Theater Workshops in Paris this month + announcement for 2014 Geneva Writers' Conference (so you can register!)


Part III) News Reviews and Reviews News: publications, CALLS FOR WORK, new books and more!

(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for Jan 2014 please send those announcements as early as possible, and in the format of the listings below, to Jennifer K Dick at fragment78 AT gmail.com


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READINGS AND LITERARY EVENTS BY DATE IN DECEMBER 2013 :

2 Dec 2013 de 17h à 18h30  TRANSLATION workshop on WHITMAN : l'Atelier de traduction poétique ARP (VALE EA 4085) recevra Eric Athenot, Professeur à l'Université François Rabelais (Tours) pour une séance consacrée à la traduction d’un poème de Walt Whitman extrait de Leaves of Grass (édition de 1855). Vous pouvez dès à présent télécharger le poème à l’adresse suivante : http://www.vale.paris-sorbonne.fr/FR/arp.php La séance aura lieu à la Maison de la Recherche de Paris-Sorbonne 28 rue Serpente, Métro Odéon, salle D117 (1er étage) Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet

2nd Dec at 19h sharp. THE WHITE REVIEW will be presented and readers from that magazine and Paris Lit Up editors will be presenting the Paris Lit Up magazine and the WR. Authors from these magazines will read and talk.   AT:  Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

2 Dec at from 8pm  SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/ 

3 Dec at 20h30 Showing of Natalia Almada's “EL General”. EL GENERAL is an excellent documentary about Mexican filmmaker Natalia's ancestor, a dictator of Mexico, which won a prize at Sundance. Parisian resident Sarah Riggs said “I heartily recommend this film and suggest you send the screening details to a friend in Paris, and go yourself if you can . . .
in the presence of the filmmaker. Natalia was one of the 8 artists for the Tangier 8 super 8 film poems, working with Peter Gizzi, with the Association Tamaas!” This film will be shown as part of the FESTIVAL VISEUR http://www.viseur.org/pages/programme.html For more on Tamaas or Sarah, see :   www.tamaas.org   &  www.sarahriggs.org AT : Cinéma Action Christine, 4 Rue Christine 75006

3 Dec à 19h Reading in French : Rencontre avec Colette Lambrichs : Frédéric Baal, écrivain et homme de théâtre, dialoguera avec la romancière et lira des extraits d’Éléonore (La Différence). L’auteure fait de Bruxelles un noyau romanesque où se déploient plusieurs récits aux points de vue multiples, gravitant tous autour de la figure d’Éléonore, ancienne comédienne octogénaire, gravement malade. AT : AT : Le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Salle du Foyer, 46 rue Quincampoix 75004

5 dec soirée de lectures à l'occasion de la parution du 7ème numéro de LIGNE 13. Ce sera jeudi, donc (voir invitation jointe), avec Jean-François Bory, Francis Cohen et Virginie Poitrasson. Pour davantage d'informations sur ce numéro : http://lignetreize.blogspot.fr/2013/11/n7-automne-hiver-2013-2014.html

5 Dec at 19h/19h30 PLU open mike night!  Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring contemporary poets and writers.  Come join and share your poetry & writing or just come and enjoy.  Culture Rapide  103, rue Julien Lacroix 75020.

6th Dec : Theater Workshop: Fridays 20h-22h. Friday Actor Training & Performance Workshop Have an interest in Theatre?  Wish to meet an international circle of fluent anglophiles with a passion for theatre?  The workshop focuses on a selection of texts in English and leads towards the creation of an ensemble and production at the end of the year. Participants interviewed.  06 37 66 27 98  wordsaliveo@gmail.com  Try-out 15€

6th Dec 6.30pm Philosophers in the Library A monthly conversation about philosophy in a convivial environment! AT:  Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

6 Dec à 19h FOR KIDS : HAIKU and chat in French about things and the world of poetry ! (4years old and older) Haiku : Théâtre d’objets et poésie pour parler de l’évanescence des choses, à la manière d’un court poème japonais qui tente de saisir l’émotion de l’instant. À partir de 4 ans. Dans un château, plein de toiles d’araignée, vit Bozo, un petit homme tout habillé de bleu. Bozo vit seul. Il regarde la lune au loin. Sur la lune, il pense avoir vu une ombre bouger. Est-ce une ombre, une araignée, un papillon? AT : Le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Salle de spectacle, 46 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris

7 DEC 14h-21h (apéritif à partir de 18h) OPEN STUDIO with Kate Van Houten, Marie Dargent, Monica Infuso, Eiko Hiroki, Daphne Gamble and Noriko Fuse exposition - vente de petits formats at the Atelier de gravure et lithographie Daphne Gamble AT :  50 rue du faubourg du Temple 75011 Paris métro / Goncourt ou République code / 49A11

7 Dec, 16h00, Une lecture/ spectacle de Ronelda Kamfer Ronelda Kamfer, one of the sharpest new voices of South African poetry, will read with Sonia Emmanuel and Denis Hirson, along with Steve Potts on saxophone AT: la bibliothèque de la Place des fêtes, 18 rue Janssen, 75019,

7 Dec à 17h FOR KIDS : HAIKU and chat in French about things and the world of poetry ! (4years old and older) Haiku : Théâtre d’objets et poésie pour parler de l’évanescence des choses, à la manière d’un court poème japonais qui tente de saisir l’émotion de l’instant. À partir de 4 ans. Dans un château, plein de toiles d’araignée, vit Bozo, un petit homme tout habillé de bleu. Bozo vit seul. Il regarde la lune au loin. Sur la lune, il pense avoir vu une ombre bouger. Est-ce une ombre, une araignée, un papillon? AT : Le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Salle de spectacle, 46 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris

Until 8th Dec.  “Au bois lacté”  (“Under Milk Wood”) by Dylan Thomas.  Performed in French. (Under Milk Wood)  Theatre de Poche Montparnasse

8 Dec 14h-19h OPEN STUDIO with Kate Van Houten, Marie Dargent, Monica Infuso, Eiko Hiroki, Daphne Gamble and Noriko Fuse exposition - vente de petits formats at the Atelier de gravure et lithographie Daphne Gamble AT : 50 rue du faubourg du Temple 75011 Paris métro / Goncourt ou République code / 49A11

9th Dec 7pm Hélène Cixous joined by Beverley Bie Brahic for a bilingual reading and discussion. Brahic will be reading from the new translation of Helene Cixous's "Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic" alongside Helene Cixous. The link to the event, with the address is: http://shakespeareandcompany.com/index.php?categories=107:1
 AT:  Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

9 Dec from 8pm  SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/

10 Dec at 19h15  Bilingual reaing with Ivy Writers Paris With the poets Luc Bénazet et Michael Heller  Luc Bénazet : lives in Paris though he is currently in Tangiers on a writing residency with the cipM (the international center for poetry in Marseilles). His most recent book is : La vie des noms (Nous éditions, 2013). He is also the author of Envoi, a collaborative work with Benoît Casas (éditions Héros-Limite, 2012), & nÉcrit (Nous éditions, 2009). His work appears in the literary reviews k.o.s.h.k.o.n.o.n.g. &, in translation, in Slot (out of Sweden) as well as in Ligne 13, MIR and Grumeaux. For more, see: http://www.editions-nous.com/benazet.html Michael Heller has published over 20 volumes of poetry, essays, memoir and fiction. His most recent books are This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010 (2012), Beckmann Variations & other poems (2010), Eschaton (2009), Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen (2012). Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson include the opera, Constellations of Waking (on Walter Benjamin) and This Art Burning.  For more, see http://www.michaelhellerpoetry.com/  RSVP at our FB event invite at: https://www.facebook.com/events/709448632419542/  AT: LE NEXT, 17 rue Tiquetonne,75002 PARIS métro Etienne Marcel/RER Les Halles For more, see: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr  or join our FB group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/101898279922603/

10th to 14th Dec: Theater  "Township Stories" by Grootboom.  Performed in English with French subtitles.  Theatre de la Villette.

11 Dec 14:00 - 17:00 e-Book Conference with Ellen Hampton, Anna Jarota, Bianka Reinhardt and Laurel Zuckerman  Topic: E-Writing, E-Publishing: Risks and Rewards. The literary landscape has been thrown wide open with the advent of e-publishing, a development as exciting as it can be confusing. A panel of writers, agents and publishers with experience in the field will assess changes e-publishing has brought thus far and target areas to watch in the future. The discussion will be followed by workshops to address specific elements of the process. This panel event, co-presented by the American Library in Paris and the Mona Bismarck American Center, will be moderated by Ellen Hampton - writer, historian, lecturer and newly-minted novelist on the e-horizon. The panel will feature: Anna Jarota, director of the Anna Jarota Literary Agency, representing literary and general fiction, crime and thrillers. Bianka Reinhardt, director of international business for Books on Demand, one of the leading European e-publishers.Laurel Zuckerman, author of Sorbonne Confidential, director of Paris Writers News, and acquisitions editor for a small press. To sign up for this workshop at the Mona Bismarck American Center,  please email rosenberg@americanlibraryinparis.org requesting to join. Space is limited to 30 and the price is 10€. For more info, see: http://americanlibraryinparis.org/events-programs/library-events/eventdetail/717/-/e-book-workshop-with-ellen-hampton.html This event will be held at the Mona Bismarck American Center in Paris.

11 Dec : 20h. Bilingual event featuring the American poet Cole Swensen and French poet Nicolas Pesquès as part of the Université Paris Est two-day symposium « Poets & Critics ». This reading is organized by  double change and Maison de la poésie de Paris.  Bios :  Cole Swensen is the author of twelve volumes of poetry and eleven of translation. She teaches lit and creative writing at Brown University. She translates French poets, such as Pierre Alfieri, Suzanne Doppelt, Olivier Cadiot, Jean Frémon, Jean Tortel and many others. She has been the recipient of many prizes and fellowships such as the New American Poetry Award and the PEN translation award. She also writes critical essays on art and poetry and is the founder and publisher of the poetry press La Presse, bringing French poets into English. Among her books, one can find recent poetry collections such as  Such Rich Hour (2001) Ours : poems on the gardens of Andre le Notre (2008) The Glass Age (2007) Gravesend (2012) or the essays Noise that Stays Noise, University of Michigan Press, 2011. She also co-edited the anthology American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (Norton, 2008) In French translation, one finds:  Le nôtre, Corti, 2013 (tr. Nicolas et Maïtreyi Pesquès) L'Âge de verre, éditions Corti, 2010 (tr. Nicolas et Maïtreyi Pesquès) Si riche heure, éditions Corti, 2007 (tr. Nicolas et Maïtreyi Pesquès) Nef, traduction de Noon par Rémi Bouthonnier (Les Petits Matins, 2005) Numen, traduction collective : Royaumont, relue et complétée par Juliette Valéry, (Créaphis, 1994) For more, see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Swensen Nicolas Pesquès, born in 1946, began a massive work in 1980 called « La face nord de Juliau », currently made up of 12 published volumes (published with André Dimanche éditeur, 1988, 1997, 2000, 2008, 2009 and 2012 as well as a volume with Editions du limon,1991 and Flammarion, 2013) Juliology is an extended poetic meditation on a mountain (Juliau) that is visible from the poet’s house in the Ardèche region of south-central France. Focusing in particular on the flowering yellow English broom that covers the mountain in spring, Pesquès intermingles close observation with a philosophical reflection on the roles and potentials of language. - See more at: http://counterpathpress.org/juliology-by-nicolas-pesques#sthash.zuFAhmqb.dpuf He also wrote the poetry collection : Gilles AILLAUD (André Dimanche éditeur, 2001). Nicolas Pesquès has also written essays on critical texts on various artists such as Gilles Aillaud, Pierre Buraglio, Anne Deguelle, Claude Garache, Bernard Moninot, Myonghi, Aurelie Nemours, Gérard Schlosser, Carmela Uranga, Jan Voss, Paul Wallach, etc. 2 sections from « La face nord de Juliau, cinq » were translated into American English by Cole Swensen: Physis (Free Verse Edition, 2006) and Juliology (Counterpath Press, 2008).  La face nord de Juliau, un has also been translated into German, this time by Lisa Spalt (Urs Engeler/ Rough Books, 2012) Nicolas Pesquès has translated, with Maïtreyi poems and books by authors such as Cole Swensen: Si Riche Heure Corti (2007) L'Age de verre Corti (2010)  Le nôtre Corti (2013), Claudia Rankine: Si toi aussi tu m'abandonnes Corti (2010) As well as Lorine Niedecker: Louange du lieu Corti (2012) with Maïtreyi and Abigail Lang AT : Maison de la poésie Passage Molière 157 rue Saint-Martin 75003 Paris Métro : Rambuteau RER : Châtelet-Les Halles Bus : 29, 38, 47, 75 Entrée : 5€  You will find directions and more info on the Poets and Critics blog: http://poetscriticsparisest.blogspot.fr/

12 Dec à 19h : French reading & roundtable discussion with film projection : Hommage à Dominique Rolin :  Dominique Rolin avec Les écrivains Josyane Savigneau, René de Ceccatty et Jean-Luc Outers, proches de Dominique Rolin, évoqueront sa personnalité et son œuvre, accompagnés de lectures de ses textes par la comédienne Marie-Christine Barrault. Le dialogue entre l’auteure et Jean-Luc Outers, L'instinct du bonheur. Dominique Rolin: le dernier entretien, réalisé en 2004, sera projeté en ouverture. Dominique Rolin (1913–2012) reçoit les éloges de Jean Cocteau et Max Jacob à la parution de son premier roman. Elle est l’auteure d’une trentaine de livres dont plusieurs abordent sa relation avec Philippe Sollers. AT : Le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Salle de spectacle, 46 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris tarifs Tarif : 5 € http://www.cwb.fr/programme/hommage-a-dominique-rolin?utm_source=Sarbacane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=28%2F11%2F2013+Newsletter+-+D%E9cembre+2013

11th Dec 3pm Children’s Hour with Kate Stables AT:  Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

12th Dec at 19h30 THEATER "Distant Music" will be performed in English at the Centre Culturel Irlandais.  This is an immersive interactive theatre experience based on James Joyce's short story "The Dead" from Dubliners.  Booking 01 58 52 10 30

12 Dec at 19h/19h30  Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring contemporary poets and writers.  Come join and share your poetry & writing or just come and enjoy.  Culture Rapide  103, rue Julien Lacroix 75020.

13 Dec French soirée on LE GRAND SOIR 40 ans du journal Libération avec : Miossec, Christophe, Baxter Dury, Who Made Who, Discodéine, Superpoze, DJ RKK, Les siestes acoustiques de Bastien Lallemant : Vincent Delerm, Peter Von Poehl, Camélia Jordana, Bastien Lallemant, Les Innocents, Jeanne Cherhal... 40 ans d'information, de reportages, de photos, d'analyses, de tribunes, de convictions, d'impertinence... Depuis 1973, Libération agite les neurones et bouscule les habitudes pour se tourner, aujourd'hui plus que jamais, vers l'avenir. Pour fêter ça avec vous, Libé s'installe au CENTQUATRE le 13 Dec et vous propose un grand concert en point d'orgue. Places : de 10 à 40 € AT : Le 104, Paris http://www.digitick.com/le-grand-soir-40-ans-de-libe-concert-css5-centquatre-pg1-rg5464.html

13th Dec 6.30pm Christmas signing of Paul Meets Bernadette by Rosy Lamb AT:  Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité        

13th Dec at 19h30 Joycian theater! "Distant Music" will be performed in English at the Centre Culturel Irlandais.  This is an immersive interactive theatre experience based on James Joyce's short story "The Dead" from Dubliners.  Booking 01 58 52 10 30

16th Dec 7pm The Cats Meet presents Edwardian Tales of Mystery & Imagination AT:  Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

16  Dec from 8pm  SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/

17 DEC at 7:30 p.m. This month POETS LIVE celebrates Anglophone magazines in Paris with the participation of Belleville Park Pages, Paris Lit Up, The Bastille and Upstairs at Duroc. Contributors to the magazines will read and issues of the publications will be on sale at the book table.  Readers will include Rufo Quintavalle who is launching his new Corrupt Press chapbook in Paris as part of this event. AT: Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Métros:  Tuileries or Concorde. Next POETS LIVE reading will be Jan.28, http://poets-live.com

17 Dec à 19h Reading and discussion around the winner of the Rossel Prize. Autour du Prix Rossel 2013 : Une soirée exceptionnelle avec le lauréat du Prix Rossel 2013, accompagné du parrain de l'édition, l’écrivain David Foenkinos. Ce Prix, communément appelé le « Goncourt Belge », est la distinction littéraire la plus prestigieuse en Belgique francophone. Parmi les auteurs récompensés : François Weyergans , Henry Bauchau ou Jean-Philippe Toussaint. Le nom du lauréat 2013 sera annoncé le 4 Dec. For more , see : http://www.cwb.fr/programme/autour-du-prix-rossel-2013?utm_source=Sarbacane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=28%2F11%2F2013+Newsletter+-+D%E9cembre+2013 AT : Le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Salle de spectacle, 46 rue Quincampoix 75004

17th to 20th Dec. THEATER:  "Rhetorical" by Grootboom.  Performed in English with French subtitles.  

19 Dec at 19h/19h30 Paris Lit Up Christmas Party featuring Rufo Quintavalle reading from his new chapbook moral hazard and the chemical sweats (corrupt press) Further info on this reading here.  For more general info, see Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring contemporary poets and writers.  Come join and share your poetry & writing or just come and enjoy.  BIO: Rufo Quintavalle is the author of four books of poetry, Make Nothing Happen, (2009),  Liquiddity (2011), Dog, cock, ape and viper (2011) and moral hazard and the chemical sweats (2013).  He was formerly the poetry editor for the online journal, nthposition, and served on the editorial board for the Paris-based literary magazine, Upstairs at Duroc.  His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for the Michael Marks award.  From 2011 until 2013 he ran the reading series, Poets Live. AT: Culture Rapide  103, rue Julien Lacroix 75020.

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PART II: WORKSHOPS
Sign up now for the GENEVA WRITERS’ WORKSHOP: The Geneva Writers Conference will take place January 31 to February 2, 2014. Conference Information


THEATER: 7th Dec (17h-19h) and Sunday 8th Dec (15h-19h).  Theatre Workshop in English 7 & 8 Dec   Native & (intermediate) non-native speakers. Creation of an ensemble through exercises on voice, breath and movement to explore excerpts from a text in English.  Exploration des extraits en anglais à travers des exercices de respiration, movement, et improvisation. Natif et non-natifs. Pré-inscription obligatoire. 06 37 66 27 98.  Reservation required wordsaliveo@gmail.com  06 37 66 27 98   Fee 60€  / Students 45€  Native speakers 40€

11 Dec 14:00 - 17:00 e-Book Conference with Ellen Hampton, Anna Jarota, Bianka Reinhardt and Laurel Zuckerman  Topic: E-Writing, E-Publishing: Risks and Rewards. The literary landscape has been thrown wide open with the advent of e-publishing, a development as exciting as it can be confusing. A panel of writers, agents and publishers with experience in the field will assess changes e-publishing has brought thus far and target areas to watch in the future. The discussion will be followed by workshops to address specific elements of the process. This panel event, co-presented by the American Library in Paris and the Mona Bismarck American Center, will be moderated by Ellen Hampton - writer, historian, lecturer and newly-minted novelist on the e-horizon. The panel will feature: Anna Jarota, director of the Anna Jarota Literary Agency, representing literary and general fiction, crime and thrillers. Bianka Reinhardt, director of international business for Books on Demand, one of the leading European e-publishers.Laurel Zuckerman, author of Sorbonne Confidential, director of Paris Writers News, and acquisitions editor for a small press. To sign up for this workshop at the Mona Bismarck American Center, email rosenberg@americanlibraryinparis.org requesting to join. Space is limited to 30 and the price is 10€. For more info, see: http://americanlibraryinparis.org/events-programs/library-events/eventdetail/717/-/e-book-workshop-with-ellen-hampton.html This event will be held at the Mona Bismarck American Center in Paris.

Theater Workshops: ALL Fridays 20h-22h. Friday Actor Training & Performance Workshop Have an interest in Theatre?  Wish to meet an international circle of fluent anglophiles with a passion for theatre?  The workshop focuses on a selection of texts in English and leads towards the creation of an ensemble and production at the end of the year. Participants interviewed.  06 37 66 27 98  wordsaliveo@gmail.com  Try-out 15€

Tuesday Dec 3. from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Akrobatas Workshop with Antonio Meza on STRATEGY and how to keep yourself focused on the present moment to achieve what you want in the future. Strategy: Engage in small steps to achieve your big goals General Public (Non AUP student) is 20euros. http://www.eventbrite.com/e/strategy-engage-in-small-steps-to-achieve-your-big-goals-tickets-9319742601 At: American University of Paris

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Part III: News Reviews and Reviews News:
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Check out Laurel Zuckerman’s “Paris Writers’ News” site! FOR MORE Events, contests for publication or reviews and reflections on some events as well as INTERVIEWS of Paris authors, check out Laurel Zuckerman’s “Paris Writers’ News” site! http://www.laurelzuckerman.com/paris-writer-news/ To see new interviews of authors, check out the direct page for that at: http://www.laurelzuckerman.com/paris-writers-news-interviews-.html including DOZENS OF INTERVIEWS! Exciting and varied list—from French authors, to Anglophones, from nonfiction to travel to poetry and novel writers as well as art critics, historians and others! A great place to get a little insight on writing as it takes place in the City of Lights!

SAND: Submissions Open for Issue 9:  ''It takes a lot of different components to make a great journal. Good designers, good organizers, good editors... and good contributors. Show us what you've got! SAND 9 is now open for submissions. We're looking for your best short fiction, poetry, and art. Check out our submission guidelines at: http://www.sandjournal.com/submissions Or, if you've got the guidelines tattooed to your forehead already, go right to Submittable: https://sandjournal.submittable.com/submit We look forward to perusing your work! Deadline is Dec 15, 2013.''

Paris-Based author, Rufo Quintavalle's, new chapbook moral hazard and the chemical sweats will be published by corrupt press on Dec 6th.  You can hear him read in Amsterdam at the Battalion Gallery on Pazzanistraat on Dec 6th or in Paris on the 19th of Dec as guest reader at the Paris Lit Up Christmas Party. Further details on both readings here and here.  Or purchase a copy direct from the publisher  http://corruptpress.net

SUBMIT BOOK TO FURNITURE PRESS’ CONTEST! The 2014 Furniture Press Poetry Prize will be awarded to the writer that best exemplifies the poetics and particularities of Furniture Press Books’ aesthetics. Elizabeth Robinson will judge this year’s competition. $500 honorarium and a publishing contract to the winner For full guidelines and information on the judge, furniture press and more, see: http://furniturepressbooks.com/fppp2014/

The Dec issue of The Volta is live: In Review features our Books of the Year selections by some of our contributing editors and guests: John Keene, Rae Armantrout, Kazim Ali, Amaranth Borsuk, Laynie Browne, Noah Eli Gordon, Drew Scott Swenhaugen, Caleb Beckwith, me, & Bhanu Kapil,  Evening Will Come features new prose by Kirsten Kaschock, David Kaufman, Jared Stanley, and Johanna Skibsrud They Will Sew The Blue Sail features new poems by Michael Earl Craig, Hannah Brooks-Motl, and Michael Donhauser translated by Rosmarie Waldrop The Conversant: Feliz Molina introduces Avital Ronell’s European Graduate School Lecture; Double Change recording of Pascal Poyet and Lisa Robertson; Rusty Morrison with Craig Santos Perez and Keith Waldrop; Angela Buck introduces Leonard Schwartz with Linh Dinh; John D’Agata and Phillip Lopate (joint interview); Declan Gould with Amber DiPietra & Denise Leto; Tony Trigilio with Leonard Schwartz; Jonathan Stalling with Afaa Weaver; Jeffrey Williams with Rita Felski; Jon Curley with Rachel Hadas; Virginia Konchan with Janice Lee; Jim Goar with Marcus Slease; HL Hix with Jan Conn and Sue Sinclair; Nature Theater of Oklahoma with Philip Bither; and Philip Metres with Vladimir Burich. Medium: new video from Laura Mullen Heir Apparent: a new series from Lyn Hejinian And Evie Shockley Takes Down The Clouds http://www.thevolta.org

READ great reflections on text and image in FRENCH, see the new number of Arborescences du Département d’Études françaises de l’Université de Toronto est heureux de vous annoncer la parution de son troisième numéro, Lire le texte et son espace : outils, méthodes, études, que vous pourrez lire à partir du lien: http://www.erudit.org/revue/arbo/2013/v/n3/index.html Il a été préparé par Caroline Lebrec, Janet Paterson et Antje Ziethen, et propose de nouveaux outils théoriques et de nouvelles études liés à l’espace et la littérature.

A place to go ? The Highlander Pub 8, rue de Nevers 75006.  Located on a narrow street on the left bank just a minute opposite from the Pont Neuf.  Its cozy atmosphere and friendliness will coax you in.  It holds lots of events on a weekly basis including open mics, music jams, pub quizzes and literary events.

READ & SUBMIT WORK to SOMETHING ON PAPER: 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of both Naropa University and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. In celebration, we've launched the online literary/multimedia poetics journal Something on Paper. The inaugural issue features lectures by Lyn Hejinian and Joan Retallack, interviews with Alice Notley and Peter Yeager, a tribute commemorating John Cage’s 100th birthday, a pedagogy article by Joe Amato & Kass Fleisher, and a roundtable discussion on Violence & Community, as well as much much more. Enjoy!  Please also consider submitting critical work: essays, articles, book reviews, etc. Call for work is open until February 1, 2014. www.somethingonpaper.org

NOW OUT : FRENCH REVIEW LIGNE 13 ! Announcing the « parution du septième numéro de LIGNE 13, que Francis Cohen et Sébastien Smirou ont pris, encore une fois, beaucoup de plaisir à réaliser. Au sommaire : Peter Bast, Sébastien Smirou, Jean-Michel Fauquet, Antonino Ferro, Arno Calleja, Virginie Poitrasson,Francis Cohen, John Rickman, et Jean-François Bory. Tous les détails sont disponibles sur : lignetreize.blogspot.fr En espérant vivement que ce volume vous plaira--Sébastien Smirou » Launch event reading on Dec 5th—see listings for info !
                        
SUBMIT : to the Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award. Following upon Stacy’s spirit of creative invention and inventive creation; engaging wit and ingenious playfulness; discovery in construction; and radical appropriations based on classical forms, pastiche, etc. and love: the Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award will be given for a poem with a truly inventive spirit.  The award is $500 / Submission is for 1-10 pages by January 1, 2014 / Publication is in 14 Hills. Website: http://14hills.net/node/725 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/216335301859366/

SUBMIT and SUBSCRIBE to Belleville Park Pages: Released every 2 weeks at the cost of 2euros, the Belleville Park Pages are always excited to receive submissions. We print poems, short stories and essays. Submit work to: bellevilleparkpages@gmail.com with the subject ‘Submission’. Submission Guidelines: - 400 word limit on poems - 1000 word limit on short stories and essays - Pieces must be previously unpublished - Include the information you would like to be printed under: Name, Place, E-mail/Website *The Belleville Park Pages makes note on each publication that authors printed retain all copyrights to their work. To buy a sample copy or to see their blog, check out http://bellevilleparkpages.wordpress.com/buy-the-page/

IN PARIS: where to find some English Language Bookstores, if you are looking to find them, please have a look at this link:  English Language Bookstores website.

PURCHASE NOW FROM 1913 press:
The long-awaited, gorgeous, & multi-form KALA PANI by Monica Mody is available NOW from 1913 Press!: "Monica Mody is a poet of sacrifice: Writing to us from the space behind the sun." -Bhanu Kapil. Extract:
One day, rain fell, rain felt – trees felled no remorse.
Ground was sober. Ground saw stars. Sobriety suited the ground.
Ground to a survival as lights changed. Ground grew movie star glasses.

LAST CHANCE! THE BASTILLE seeks writing and art with a rong point of view for our 3rd issue. We want your Art - Photography - Poetry - Rants - Interviews - Articles - Prose – Stories - Opinion pieces - Documentary work (art, photos or words) – Journalism WRITERS (journalis, poets, ranters, orytellers, visionaries) Write about something you feel rongly about (passionate or angry). Something personal or political, about life or the world. And give us a twi. Be radical - reach down to the root of things. Why should the reader care? Experiment - Break your own mould - push your limits. Don’t do what is familiar and easy for you. Have fun. This could be an article, a rant, an interview, a poem, anything… it could be a mix of prose and other forms. ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHERS  Put your passion into your work. Make it about something personal or political, life or the world. Find something to say. Be radical, get to the root of things, take a side, document, have a rong point of view. Break your own mould - push your limits. Don’t do what is familiar and easy foryou. Experiment and… have fun. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Work  mu not have been published before. Simultaneous submissions ne if you tell us as soon as you get accepted elsewhere. Include a 50 word bio with your submission. Send to themag.paris@gmail.com [1] WORDS Send as an attachment .doc or .rtf [not .docx] Use Perpetua 12. Prose - send us 50 to 2000 words. Poems - send us up to 3 poems of up to 40 lines each. ART, PHOTOS Send as jpeg 300dpi Deadline 15th Dec

BOOKS by Greg Bachar FOR THE HOLIDAYS? Gifts? Why not get a discount on Amazon and support author Greg Bachar? CURIOSISOSITY: This volume contains a selection of poems, stories and experiments. Bachar¹s ³curiosisosities² capture moments in a world where cows replace clouds, magnesium sparks fly from eyes, live wasps are served at dinner parties, the moon cries tears for its first love, the Earth, and winged clocks fly through the air like hummingbirds.  BEANS (& Other Sundry Items From The General Store), 
DUMB BELL & STICKY FOOT (& Other Indulgences), THE AMUSEMENTPARK OF THE MIND--ESSAYS ON THOUGHT, FEELING, EXPERIENCE -- A volume of writings on the likes of Velimir  Khlebnikov, Rene Daumal, Andre Breton, Martin Heidegger, Samuel Beckett, Derek Walcott, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Jean Baudrillard, Jurgen Habermas, Raymond Radiguet, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, Seamus Heaney, John Ashbery, C.K. Williams, John Donne, Robert Herrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Isabelle Eberhardt, Frank Stanford, Atilla Jozsef, Sister Corita Kent, Henri Charriere, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Williams, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, Ralph Ellison and MORE!!! Or read his own THE WRITING MACHINE--WRITINGS ON WRITING (Occasional Ruminations On An Intangible Legerdemain)  A collection of essays on the sleight of hand that fuels Bachar’s own creative writing practices.

CHECK OUT and consider writing for FRANCE REVISITED: edited by Gary Lee Kraut, FRANCE REVISITED is an online magazine that publishes a wide variety of journalistic and creative approaches in exploring life, travel, touring and culture in Paris and throughout France. Written 50% by Gary, 50% by contributors, FRANCE REVISITED presents a fluent mix of information, insights, reviews, personal essays, interviews, commentary, humor, poetry and vignettes, as well as photography and videos. www.francerevisited.com. Like what you read? Want to contribute? Gary likes getting work by people who have a passion for a subject or are particularly creative in their approach to travel and place. Before sending anything, read the site, then see France Revisited's Writer's Guidelines if you are still interested in submitting material:  http://francerevisited.com/contact-2/write-for-us/

Submit to PICAYUNE LITERARY Magazine accepts submissions to Dec 15, annually, in short fiction (1,250 words max), flash fiction (250 words max), nonfiction and creative nonfiction (1,250 words max), poetry (3 per submission), and black & white line art. Submit writing as .doc and art as PDF to: picayunemagazine@yahoo.com or danielrmtz@nmhu.edu. More information at: www.nmhu.edu.

QUERCUS REVIEW PRESS $1,000 prize, book publication, generous royalties. Deadline: Dec 13. Send manuscript and $25 reading fee to Quercus Review Press, Dept. of English, Modesto Junior College, 425 College Ave., Modesto, CA 95350. New and emerging writers especially encouraged to submit. More info: quercusreviewpress.com.



JUST OUT! The Critical Flame! The publication of the Nov/Dec issue of The Critical Flame, which includes a review of August Kleinzahler's collection, The Hotel Oneira.  Patrick Dunagan writes, “Reality comes in and out of focus, approaching hypnagogia, as the subject matter swings from the poet’s residence in San Francisco to his native New Jersey and beyond, crisscrossing time and carrying references to nursery rhymes and Vachel Lindsay.” http://criticalflame.org/reality-out-of-focus-august-kleinzahlers-the-hotel-oneira/

READ then perhaps PROPOSE A TEXT to NEW LINES: CHRISTOPHER KONDRICH writes about Tomas Transtömer's Samurais & Dragon Scales on the newest of the new LINES posts. Don't miss it, read it here: KONDRICH'S LINES  Inspired to write your own? Pitch your own ideas to: info@lostroads.org