16 September 2013

September Rentrée 2013 Readings + Literary Events List for PARIS plus Calls for Writing Work

rentrée 2013 Readings + Events List for PARIS
Although THE LIST is not yet in full RENTREE mode, here are a few events taking place during the forthcoming weeks before OCT gets underway:

Part I) Paris Events and READINGS by date for Sept into start of Oct
 
French celebrate Rugby success, Nov 2011, Photo by JKDick
Part II) News Reviews and Reviews News: publications, calls for work, new books and more!—LOTS of calls for work!

(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for OCT 2013 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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Part I: Week of SEPT 17th through Oct 1st listings of literary events in Paris

15 Sept at 7.30 pm MOVING  PARTS presents an evening of a reading of a cross-cultural screenplay by Thomas Gatus “Bonjour Florida”: A complacent neighborhood goes topsy-turvy as cultures and stereotypes collide when a distant French relative shows up unannounced on a doorstep in Panacea, Florida. A reading with EMMANUEL ULLMANN,  JEREMY COFFMAN, JOLAINE BEAL,  FRANCESCA O'BRIEN, BILL DUNN,  DAVID HOVIS,  KIM TILBURY, PAUL CAVIN,  DANNY RUKAVINA, and STEPHANIE CAMPION AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries

16 Sept 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 Sept. Drinks upstairs at the bar at 7 p.m., Poetry downstairs at 7.30 sharp, please!  POETS LIVE opens their 2013/14 reading season with the poetry of David Barnes, Bibi Jacob and Fiona Sze-Lorrain BIOS: David Barnes is a British psychotherapist, teacher, poet and short-story writer who has lived in Paris since 2003. His prose explores relationships and his poetry ranges from love poetry to humour to polemic. He founded and hosts the hugely popular SpokenWord Paris open mic series - see spokenwordparis.org - and The Other Writers’ Group at Shakespeare and Co. He is the Editor of The Bastille magazine and was the Prose Editor of Strangers in Paris: New Writing Inspired by the City of Light.  He won Shakespeare & Company's short story competition Travel in Words in 2006. He has been published in Upstairs at Duroc, Spot Lit Magazine, 34th Parallel, Retort Magazine and elsewhere  .Bibi Jacob studied literature at King’s College, Cambridge and theatre at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris. Having worked as a diamond messenger, busker, storyteller, tutor and theatre performer, she is now settled in the City of Light as a voice actor. Her writing has appeared in issue.ZERO, The Bastille, Paragram, Belleville Park Pages and on the flashfiction.it website. She regularly performs her work and her Poets Live reading marks the  launch of her chapbook, Glittery City.  Fiona Sze-Lorrain writes and translates in English, Chinese and French.  Born in Singapore, she grew up in a hybrid of cultures and studied in the UK and the US before obtaining her PhD from Paris IV-Sorbonne. Her first collection of poetry, Water the Moon, appeared in 2010 and her latest collection, My Funeral Gondola, came out this spring. In addition to her four books of translation of contemporary Chinese poets and her prose translations of Hai Zi, she has translated Romanian-born French poet Ghérasim Luca and American poet Mark Strand.  She is the co-editor of several anthologies, the co-founder of Cerise Press and a contributing editor to Mãnoa. With Gao Xingjian, she co-authored Silhouette/Shadow: The Cinematic Art of Gao Xingjian. She currently works as an editor at Vif Éditions, Paris.  Also a zheng harpist, she has performed worldwide.  Her CD, In One Take, was released in 2010.  www.fionasze.com AT : Carr’s Pub,1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Métro: Tuileries or Concorde http://poets-live.com

19 September 19 @ 19.30h – PLU Open Mic featuring Valerie Coulton & Ed Smallfield. All the way from Barcelona, our super guest poets this week are Valerie Coulton  and Ed Smallfield. Every Thursday (in English or other languages – when in Rome, speak French). Sign up is continuous all night, first come first served. Rotating hosts JFMcG, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene. AT: the historic home of French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more information see: http://parislitup.com/event/plu-open-mic-featuring-valerie-coulton-ed-smallfield/

19 septembre à 19h Rencontre avec AGNES VANNOUVONG pour la parution de son roman Après l’amour (Mercure de France) Mêlant brillamment romantisme et crudité, douceur et violence, sensualité et sexualité, ce premier roman, ancré dans la culture lesbienne, explore la fulgurance du désir d’une femme. Lorsque la narratrice se sépare de sa compagne de dix ans, elle part à la recherche effrénée du plaisir, de Paris à New York, de Rome à Berlin. Pourtant après l’amour le manque est inéluctable. Dans cette ronde de la séduction, toutes les femmes prolongent l’absence de Paola. Pendant la rencontre la comédienne Layla Metssitane et le comédien Manuel Blanc liront des extraits. A. Vannouvong enseigne les gender studies à l’université de Genève. Elle a publié un essai Jean Genet, les revers du genre (Presses du réel). http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/spip.php?article639 AT : Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07   www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

19-22 September 2013: You are cordially invited to LA SEMAINE DE LA GRANDE BRETAGNE at the Mairie du 16ème which will feature:  - A British Market including WHSmith Paris - Traditional "fish 'n chips" - Exhibits and a drawing contest for kids - Concerts, dancing and music - Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" at Theatre du Ranelagh THURS 19/09  - Networking breakfast Friday 20/09 - Author signings at the WHSmith stand:  Stuart Nimmo - Thursday 19/09 Jean-Loup Chiflet - Friday 20/09  Matthew Cobb - Saturday 21/09 Charles Timoney - Saturday 21/09 Salley Vickers - Sunday 22/09 Rupert Kingfisher - Sunday 22/09 Stephen Clarke - Sunday 22/09 AT: the Mairie du 16ème, Paris. For more info, download the pdf programme at: http://www.mairie16.paris.fr/mairie16/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?document_id=15247&portlet_id=1006

19 Sept à 19h : Thomas Clerc, Didier Faustino, «Le volume intérieur» Jérôme Mauche reçoit Thomas Clerc, écrivain et essayiste, et Didier Faustino, artiste et architecte Loin de problématiques en termes d’intériorité mais nourris d’approches conceptuelles, l’écrivain et essayiste Thomas Clerc et l’architecte et artiste Didier Faustino redessinent et proposent avec invention des formes de vie pratiques et utopiques, individuelles et collectives à la fois. BIOGRAPHIES : Thomas CLERC est écrivain et essayiste. Il est l’auteur de trois remarquables livres Paris, musée du XXIe siècle. Le 10e arrondissement, 2007 ; L’homme qui tua Roland Barthes, 2010, Grand Prix de la nouvelle de l’Académie française ; et Intérieur, 2013, tous parus aux éditions L’Arbalète/Gallimard et qui inscrivent la littérature conceptuelle dans un ensemble plus large et subtil. On lui doit de plus l’édition du cours de Roland Barthes au Collège de France sur le Neutre, Seuil, 2002 ; un essai consacré à Maurice Sachs le désoeuvré, Allia, 2005, ainsi que plus récemment le premier volume de l’édition des Œuvres complètes de Guillaume Dustan, P.O.L, 2013. Il pratique par ailleurs la lecture performée et propose des objets collaboratifs avec de nombreux artistes. Il est maître de conférences à l’Université Paris 10. Didier FAUSTINO Architecte de formation, Didier Fiuza Faustino développe un travail protéiforme mêlant architecture, installation, performance et vidéo. Exposé notamment à la Biennale d’architecture de Venise comme dans de nombreux musées et institutions en France et à l’étranger, il explore les frontières entre espace public et privé, interrogeant le corps dans sa dimension perceptive, sociale et politique. Parmi ses dernières expositions personnelles, on citera Don't Trust Architects, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbonne, 2010 ; Le meilleur des mondes, Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Paris, 2011 ; The Wild Things, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, 2011; Future will be a remake, HEAD, Genève, 2012 ; Memories of Tomorrow, Transpalette, Bourges, 2013. Il a été récemment curator de Unattained Lanscape avec Akiko Miyake et Angela Vettese, Japan Foundation & Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venise, 2013 et de Evento 2009, Bordeaux. Il a récemment signé la scénographie de l’exposition Rodin, la Chair, le Marbre, au Musée Rodin à Paris en 2012. En 2002, il a fondé le Bureau des Mésarchitectures actif entre Paris et Lisbonne. AT : Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, 12 rue Boissy d'Anglas 75 008 PARIS T. 33 (0)1 53 30 88 00, F. 33 (0) 1 40 06 90 78

20th-22nd of September is the inaugural Festival des Écrivains du Monde, with more than 25 amazing writers and events at la BnF, le Louvre, le Centre Culturel Irlandais, La Maison de la Poésie and more.The Festival is all weekend--we hope that you can join! Rencontrez en un seul week-end 30 écrivains de renommée mondiale : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, John Banville, Richard Ford, David Grossman, Ma Jian, Amin Maalouf, Petros Markaris, Catherine Millet, Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie, Edmund White et beaucoup d’autres.A full program in French and English is available at: http://festivaldesecrivainsdumonde.fr/
22 September from 13h00 to 20h00 for the American Library's Fall Open House. Come and meet our staff and take a behind-the-scenes tour of our newly renovated spaces with Director Charles Trueheart, browse the collections, and visit the Children's Library. AAWE, one of the longest-standing American womens' group in Paris, will also be on hand all day to share information on bicultural living. Stay for a special screening of Steven Speilberg's film Hook at 18h00 (popcorn provided), as we celebrate the end of our Summer Reading programs. Bring the family and friends! Non-members are welcome! AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92

23 Sept 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/

24 Sept 17h-20h.  IVY WRITERS PARIS fait sa rentrée: Come celebrate the rentrée with a multilingual poetry reading-goûter-apéro. Check back here for confirmation of the site this fall for IVY’s WELCOME BACK reading of YOUR work + a poem by someone you admire. A set of invited readers as well as an open mic in French or English where you read a few of your new poems and end by reading a poem by someone else. Among the guest readers who will be participating at this opening event, we have Kate Noakes (England), Lisa Pasold (Canada), Anna O (France), Aden Elias (France), Pansy Maurer Alvaez (TBC), and host co-curators Jacob Bromberg and Jennifer K Dick. A reading by many voices as late afternoon falls into dusk, as the first official rentrée month moves towards its close, as the trains coming into the Gare de Lyon from the south carry fewer bikini and towel-toting visitors and gives way to the fall business folks. Be there at 17h to sign up. Readings start at 17h30 and we must liberate the space at 20h sharp. AT: TBC this week (sorry!) Keep your eye on our site, too http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com

24th September - 6-8pm: Signing 6-7pm. Presentation 7-8pm Noreen Riols will present and sign THE SECRET MINISTRY OF AG. & FISH: MY LIFE IN CHURCHILL'S SCHOOL FOR SPIES. ‘My mother thought I was working for the Ministry of Ag. and Fish.’ So begins Noreen Riols’ compelling memoir of her time as a member of Churchill’s ‘secret army’, the Special Operations Executive. It was 1943, just before her eighteenth birthday, Noreen received her call-up papers, and was faced with either working in a munitions factory or joining the Wrens. A typically fashion-conscious young woman, even in wartime, Noreen opted for the Wrens - they had better hats. But when one of her interviewers realized she spoke fluent French, she was directed to a government building on Baker Street. It was SOE headquarters, where she was immediately recruited into F-Section, led by Colonel Maurice Buckmaster. From then until the end of the war, Noreen worked with Buckmaster and her fellow operatives to support the French Resistance fighting for the Allied cause. Sworn to secrecy, Noreen told no one that she spent her days meeting agents returning from behind enemy lines, acting as a decoy, passing on messages in tea rooms and picking up codes in crossword puzzles. Vivid, witty, insightful and often moving, this is the story of one young woman’s secret war, offering readers an authentic and compelling insight into what really went on in Churchill’s ‘secret army’ from one of its last surviving members. Kindly RSVP on our Facebook page or by emailing books(at) whsmith.fr. AT: WHSmith - 248, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris - M°Concorde - www.whsmith.fr
24 Sept 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Robert Wilson presents his biography on Matthew Brady: Portraits of a Nation. AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92

25 Sept 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Harriet Welty Rochefort (Joie de Vivre) and Jamie Cat Callan (Ooh La La) share with us the French way of living. AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92
 

26 septembre à 20h. Double Change invites you to a special event with CLARK COOLIDGE and THURSTON MOORE. Dans le cadre de l’invitation à l’Université Paris Est du poète américain Clark Coolidge (Programme de recherche Poets & Critics), l’association double change et la maison de la poésie de Paris vous invitent à une lecture ainsi qu’une performance musicale de Clark Coolidge (percussions) et de Thurston Moore (guitare). BIOS : Né en 1939 à Providence, Rhode Island, Clark Coolidge est l'auteur d'une quarantaine de livres de poésie dont les plus récents sont 88 Sonnets, Fence Books (décembre 2012) et A Book Beginning What and Ending Away,  Fence Books (mars 2013). Spécialiste de Jack Kerouac, musicien de jazz, Clark Coolidge a composé depuis cinquante ans une œuvre multiforme et radicale, mêlant expérimentations formelles et performances improvisées. Co-fondateur avec Michael Palmer de la revue Joglars (1964-1966), Clark Coolidge a en commun avec celui-ci d'être un poète de l'intergénération qui relie, aux États-Unis, l'École de New York (John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, etc.) au mouvement L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. En français, on peut lire Le Texte du cristal, traduction des 20 premières pages de The Crystal Text par Joseph Guglielmi et Philippe Mikriammos, Les Cahiers de Royaumont, 1989.Polaroïd – traduit et lu par Éric Pesty, 2 CD audio, Éric Pesty Éditeur, 2007.Dépositions smithsoniennes & Sujet à un film, traduction de Guillaume Fayard, Les Petits Matins « Les Grands Soirs », 2009. http://www.ericpestyediteur.com/clarkcoolidge.htm Thurston Moore est musicien. Chanteur et guitariste de Sonic Youth, il a récemment fondé le groupe Chelsea Light Moving qui a sorti son premier album en mars 2013 (Chelsea Light Moving, Matador). Grand connaisseur de poésie américaine, il a collaboré avec les poètes Clark Coolidge et Anne Waldman sur l’album Comes Through in the Call Hold (Fast Speaking Music, 2013). AT : la 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€

26 September @ 19.30h – PLU Open Mic featuring Jo Bell: poet, writer and the Director of National Poetry Day, she is a former archaeologist, her work focuses on the line between past and present while exploring sex, friendship and life as a boat-dweller. Every Thursday (in English or other languages – when in Rome, speak French). Sign up is continuous all night, first come first served. Rotating hosts JFMcG, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene. AT: the historic home of French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more information see: http://parislitup.com/event/plu-open-mic-featuring-jo-bell/

27 septembre à 19h Rencontre avec AUDREY CHENU pour la parution de son récit GirlFight (Presses de la cité) Audrey Chenu est connue par le slam (elle a participé à deux recueils Slam ô féminin et S’lame de fond). Elle livre dans cet ouvrage, co-écrit avec la journaliste Catherine Monroy, un récit de sa vie depuis son enfance dans un cadre familial défaillant qui la pousse à prendre sa vie en main. Le trafic de drogue va l’emmener vers la dureté de la prison (elle a publié un recueil de textes de femmes incarcérées avec elle De l’ombre à la lumière). La rencontre d’un vieux prof qui anime des débats dans la prison lui permettra de se reconstruire et de découvrir sa vocation d’enseignante. http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/spip.php?article644 AT : Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07   www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

28 Sept 19h30 Come to a TRILINGUAL reading and art show opening featuring Italian artist Georgio Fidone, poets Jennifer K Dick (USA), Jacques de Longeville (France) and Susana Sulic (Argentina). Expo continues through Oct 3. AT: la bibliothèque Marguerite Audoux, 10 rue Portefoin, 75003 Paris, m° arts et métiers. More info at: http://quefaire.paris.fr/fiche/61044_une_lecture_dans_le_cadre_de_l_exposition_fidone_avec_jennifer_k_dick_jacques_de_longeville_et_susana_sulic


28 et 29 septembre Violette and Co tient une table de vente au Festival de documentaires féministes Femmes en résistance Informations et programme : resistancesdefemmes.wordpress.com

29 Sept at 7.30 pm MOVING  PARTS presents an evening of playreadings of work by Gwyneth Hughes  "Tricky Business" & "Skin Deep" (2 stage plays) AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries

30 Sept 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/


1 October 2013—IVY Writers Paris invites you to a bilingual reading with Jerome Rothenberg and Yves di Manno BIOS: Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet with over eighty books of poems and twelve assemblages of traditional and avant-garde poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred and Poems for the Millennium. Recent books in French include Yves di Manno’s translation of Techniciens du Sacré and Jean Portante’s translation of Pologne/1931.  His most recent assemblage of his own poems is Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, and he is now working on a global and historical anthology of “outside and subterranean poetry.”. At one point in his life, Rothenberg was the theorist of the deep image group of poets. He has received most of the awards one can think of, fellowships to residencies, etc, and was even elected to the World Academy of Poetry (UNESCO) in 2001. A complete bio may be found at: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/rothenberg/bio.html Yves di Manno est né dans le Rhône en 1954. Il vit et travaille à Paris. Depuis les années 1970, il a collaboré à de nombreuses revues, traduit plusieurs poètes nord-américains (William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, George Oppen, Jerome Rothenberg…) et publié une vingtaine d'ouvrages — parmi lesquels, pour la poésie : Les Célébrations (Bedou, 1980), Champs (Flammarion, 1984-1987), Kambuja (Flammarion, 1992), Partitions (Flammarion, 1995) et Un Pré, chemin vers (Flammarion, 2003). Une nouvelle suite : Terre sienne, paraît en 2012 aux éditions Isabelle Sauvage. Ses récits complets ont été réunis sous le titre de Disparaître (Didier Devillez, 1997). Il est également l'auteur d’un roman fantastique : La Montagne rituelle (Flammarion, 1998), de deux « récits en rêve » : Domicile (Denoël, 2002), Discipline (Ed. Héloïse d’Ormesson, 2005) et de deux traités de poétique active : « endquote » (Flammarion, 1999), Objets d’Amérique (José Corti, 2009). Traducteur sous divers pseudonymes de littérature populaire, responsable de la version française des Techniciens du sacré de Jerome Rothenberg (José Corti, 2008) et de l’édition des Œuvres complètes de Pierre Reverdy, il dirige par ailleurs la collection Poésie/Flammarion, où il a accueilli plus de cent-vingt titres depuis 1994. Il prépare actuellement un nouvel essai de poétique : No man’s land et la troisième édition révisée des Cantos d’Ezra Pound. AT: Location TBA before Sept 25th, so please check back for confirmation or join the IVY email list at ivywritersparis AT gmail DOT com and we will send you  the location and information for forthcoming events.http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com
 1 Oct 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Anthony Flint present his upcoming narrative biography The Raven: The Life of Le Corbusier, Maker of the Modern. AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92

2 October 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Max Bryd talks about his best-selling crime novel "Paris Deadline". AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92


2 octobre à 19h Rencontre avec LÉONORA MIANO pour la parution de son roman La saison de l’ombre (Grasset)  AT : Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07   www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

3 October @ 19:30h – PLU Open Mic featuring Lisa Pasold: poet, novelist, and occasional TV travel show host, her most recent book, Any Bright Horse, was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award in Canada. She divides her time between Paris and New Orleans. Every Thursday (in English or other languages – when in Rome, speak French). Sign up is continuous all night, first come first served. Rotating hosts JFMcG, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene. AT: the historic home of French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more information see: http://parislitup.com/event/plu-open-mic-featuring-jo-bell/

4 octobre à 19h Rencontre avec CATHERINE ACHIN et LAURE BERENI pour la parution de leur ouvrage Dictionnaire genre et science politique (Presses de Sciences Po) AT : Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07   www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

 
5 October 2013 9.am to 6.30pm  BLOOM: New to Paris? The Bloom Progam helps English-speaking newcomers settle into their new life in Paris. Since 1970, the Women of the American Church have sponsored Bloom Where You’re Planted – How to Live in France. These seminars, designed to assist English-speaking newcomers to France, feature speakers and/or workshops on various topics from food and wine tasting to health care and general safety, need-to-know subjects and just plain fun. Bloom helps with understanding cultural differences, creating a new life in Paris and getting connected with friends and organizations throughout Paris and the surrounding areas. This year's program includes: Speakers, including Patricia Wells, and workshops Author signing with Cara Black Bloom Book and a goodies bag. For full programme, see http://bloom.acparis.org/bloom-program/current-program/ AT:  American Church of Paris, 65 quai d'Orsay, 75007 Paris Registration required—forms at: http://bloom.acparis.org/bloom-program/bloom-registration/

5 Oct10h00-19h00 and 6 October 13h00-19h00 Used Book Sale at the American Library of Paris. AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92
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Part III: NEW REVIEWS AND REVIEWS NEWS:

CALLS FOR WORK, NEW BOOKS and MORE!!!

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NONFICTION SOUGHT: 1966—An online journal of creative nonfiction seeks pieces of literary nonfiction with a research component—anything from immersion writing to nature writing to travel writing to memoir with some element of research to ??. To read submission guidelines and our current issue, visit www.1966journal.org.

Paris Sci Fi novelist Barry Kirwan announces that the third book in the Eden Paradox series, Eden's Revenge, is now out on Amazon in ebook, with paperback to follow later in the year.

SLAB (winner of AWP’s 2012 National Directors Prize) wants your on-the-cusp, interesting, and plain-out weird creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and text/image pieces. We love flash too. Reading period: late summer until December 1. All submissions read by mammals, not computers. Samples & more info at slablitmag.org.

THE BROKEN PLATE wants submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Reading period is September 1–October 31. Accepted works will appear in our annual spring issue. Check out our website for guidelines: http://thebrokenplate.org.

9TH ANNUAL Calvino Prize. For short story, short story collection, novel or novella in the fabulist, experimental vein of Italo Calvino. Sponsored by the University of Louisville. Final judge for 2013: Tobias Wolff, acclaimed author of This Boy’s Life, many short stories, and the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor at Stanford University. First prize,  $1,500 plus publication in The Salt Hill Journal. Second prize, $300. For short story, short story collection, novel or novella in the fabulist, experimental vein of Italo Calvino. First place winner invited, expenses paid, to read winning entry at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture held in February at the University of Louisville. Fee: $25. Deadline: October, 15. Submission details: louisville.edu/english.

Submit your books to the 2013 NATIONAL POETRY REVIEW Book Prize: $1,000 plus publication; 2013 Rousseau Prize for Literature: $1,000 plus publication. All entries considered for publication. Last year 7 manuscripts were accepted. TNPR prize deadline: June 30. Rousseau Prize deadline: October 31. Guidelines for TNPR prize at www.nationalpoetryreview.com and for the Rousseau Prize at http://home.comcast.net/~jpdancingbear/rousseauprize.html.

STAGING GROUND MAG announces they have published online our first installment of Translation Caravanserai -- Melina Kameric translated from the Bosnian by Jennifer Zoble; Edmond Amran El Maleh translated from the French by Lucy McNair; and Kim Cheom Seon translated from the Korean by Matt Reeck and Angela Choi. Please check it out -- http://staginggroundmag.com/ Staging Ground Magazine also accepts submissions of translations and original work—to see more, look at their site or request info at:  info@staginggroundmag.com

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/

THE READER BERLIN MANUSCRIPT SERVICES offers to help YOU: Founded in Berlin in 2010, in response to a perceived need for writers to gain insightful feedback on their work and its potential, The Reader Berlin has what all writers seek: a careful and judicious eye. Our aim is to support artists in their creativity, offer them mentoring, honest feedback and advice. Services include manuscript assessment, proof-reading, translation, services for screenwriters and playwrights as well as seminars, creative writing courses and intensive workshops. More info at http://thereaderberlin.com/ or drop us an email at hello@thereaderberlin.com

Naughty Paris for the rentrée? If you have not gotten a copy yet, order Heather Stimmler-Hall’s Naughty Girls Guide to Paris or subscribe to her newsletter, "Secrets of Paris" www.secretsofparis.com which started fifteen years ago and has a loyal following of over 10,000 readers.

SUBMIT EXPERIMENTAL WRITING: THE 1ST ANNUAL Best American Experimental Writing (“BAX”) anthology, to be published in the spring of 2014 by Omnidawn, is open for submissions until November 15. Guest editor: Cole Swensen; series editors: Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani. Submit 9 pages or 3 pieces for $9. For details, visit www.omnidawn.com/bax.

GET INVOLVED IN PARIS LIT UP, or keep track of what they are up to! ABOUT PARIS LIT UP, a site you can check into for MORE on PARIS : Paris Lit Up does not exist.* Or rather, Paris Lit Up isn’t any individual project or person. Paris Lit Up is the space between the independently run projects that trace its outline. Paris Lit Up shines as a constellation of these bright literary stars in the Parisian night. Paris Lit Up lives in the visible and invisible connections between these ventures and the groups that animate them. Paris Lit Up dwells somewhere deep inside each of these projects because they enrich and empower the people around them. Paris Lit Up aims to build this open community while nurturing the goodwill to collectively share and grow together. Paris Lit Up pulses through the rhizomes of shared practices, common spaces and cooperative spirit. Paris Lit Up explodes in the creative potential of the international literary scene in our beloved City of Lights, Paris. Paris Lit Up includes, reviews and lists events for: Barbara Beck – Co-editor of Upstairs at DurocLucy Binnersley – Reviewer for Paris Lit UpJames Bird – Co-editor of Belleville Park PagesWill Cox – Co-editor of Belleville Park PagesMissy Green – Reviewer for Paris Lit UpHelen Cusack O’Keeffe – Co-host of The Paris Writers’ Group and co-editor of PLU MagazineJennifer K. Dick –Curator of Ivy Writers Jason Francis Mc Gimsey –Co-host of PLU Open Mic, co-editor of PLU Magazine and web monkeyKate Noakes – Co-host of PLU Open Mic, host of PLU Writing Workshop and co-editor of PLU MagazineJulie Poole - Co-editor of PLU MagazinePansy Maurer-Alvarez -Host of Poets LiveEmily Ruck Keene – Special contributor to Paris Lit Up, Keene as Mustard and co-host of PLU Open Mic Bruce Sherfield – Founder and coordinator of MegaloManiacsDemian Smith -Founder and editor of Underground Paris Hassle us on Facebook, molest us on Twitter and join the fray with meetup for events, parties, readings and random outings.Got something to contribute ? Got a bone to pick ? Write us at: info@parislitup.com. For more information: http://parislitup.com

OPEN READING PERIOD for POETRY. Steel Toe Books, the hardest-working press in po-biz, is reading full-length poetry manuscripts in September and October. Guidelines at www.steeltoebooks.com/submit.html. Send c/o Tom C. Hunley, Director, English Department, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd. #11086, Bowling Green, KY 42101.

PICAYUNE LITERARY Magazine accepts submissions from September 15 to December 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 Annual Book Award. $1,000 prize, book publication, generous royalties. Deadline: December 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.

SLEET MAGAZINE seeks irregulars, flash, poetry, cnf and the elusive short story.
Please see our site for guidelines and deadlines. www.sleetmagazine.com.

THE WHIRLWIND REVIEW, an online literary journal focusing on the connections between writing and spirituality, is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Emerging and unpublished writers are encouraged to submit. For guidelines go to writingasasacredpath.blogspot.com