Part I) Paris Events and READINGS by date in NOVEMBER 2013
Part II) Writing, and Theater Workshops in Paris this month
Part III) AMAZING News Reviews and Reviews News: publications, CALLS FOR WORK--including for 5 local Paris magazines and sites!
*Note:
event and section III will be updated, so check back!
(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for Dec 2013 or 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
(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for Dec 2013 or 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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PART ONE: READINGS and THEATER events in PARIS this NOVEMBER
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5 to 9 Nov. "Life and Times." Performed in English with French
subtitles. Nature Theater of Olahoma-USA. At Nouveau
Theatre de Montreuil. Reservations. 01 48 70 48 90 They are passionate
performers. Singing, dancing and acting. The show begins as a musical: on
an empty stage, three women perform and sing about a young middle-class
American woman. They are gradually joined on stage by other actors.
6 to 23 Nov. Robert Wilson / Mikhail Baryshnikov
/ Willem Dafoe - "The Old
Woman. Performed in English &
Russian with French subtitles. Theatre de la Ville,
Reservations 01 42 74 22 77
6th Nov 3pm Children’s Hour Bring your children
(2-6 year-olds, siblings welcome too) to the library at Shakespeare and Company
for an hour of music, songs, and stories in English (for all nationalities,
even those who don't speak English). Led by the magic Kate Stables, mum and
singer/songwriter from This is the Kit, this lovely event has become an
institution. There will be instruments to play and a lot of noise to make! Four
euros donation appreciated. AT: Shakespeare and Co Paris, 37 Rue de la
Bucherie 75005 Paris
7 Nov at 19h/19h30 Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring
contemporary poets and writers. Culture Rapide 103, rue Julien Lacroix 75020 The Paris Lit Up Magazine is
available at Shakespeare
& Co.
7th November 7pm Reading of Touched by
Grace by Gary Lucas (with music) We’re delighted to welcome world-class
guitarist and Grammy-nominated songwriter Gary Lucas back to the bookshop to
discuss his new book, Touched by Grace: My Time with Jeff Buckley. He will also
perform a solo set featuring songs from his musical collaborations. AT:
Shakespeare and Co Paris, 37 Rue de la Bucherie 75005 Paris
8-10 Nov : all day the 9-10 and from 10h the 8th : ART Book CONTEMPORARY DAYS Paris show and book fair with Yvon Lambert Gallery. Vernissage vendredi 8 novembre à 19h PLUS Ouverture du vendredi 8 au dimanche 10 novembre de 11h à 19h AT : Topographie de l'art 15, rue de Thorigny - 75003 Paris
8th Nov 6pm Philosophers in the
Library: BUDDHISM This month’s Philosophers in the Library will focus on the influence of
Buddhism in American literature. With an emphasis on writers of the Beat
Generation (many of whom were visitors to the shop), Ben McConnell will discuss
the transmission of Buddhism from east to west through the vein of poetry and
literature AT: Shakespeare and Co Paris, 37 Rue de la Bucherie 75005
Paris
10 Nov at 7.30 pm
MOVING PARTS presents
a reading of a play by George Vance “SEIN KAMPF: The Hitler That Never Was” With The Habsburg Empire on the wane and the
Vienna 1900 Renaissance in full flower, the unformed down-and-out Adolph
struggles to forge his singular persona...An English language play based on documented
but freely interpreted anecdotes from Hitler’s youth in Pre-WW I
fin-de-siècle Vienna. with MICHAEL MARICONDI, ROBBIE NOCK, BETH JERVIS, PIERRE KNOESEN, JOHNNY PALMER, STEPHANIE CAMPION AT: Carr's Pub &
Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries
11 Nov 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/
12 Nov at 19h15 Ivy Writers with Arpine Konyalian Grenier,
Jacques Rébotier and Peter Cockelbergh. BIOS: JACQUES
REBOTIER
(né en 1950) peut être défini comme un créateur inclassable de par ses
multiples activités : écrivain, poète, compositeur, comédien, metteur en
scène. Il est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages, entre autres,
de Litaniques (2000) et Le Dos de la langue (2001) dans la
collection « L’Arbalète » (Gallimard). Son théâtre est publié par Les
solitaires intempestifs : Le Désordre des langages, 1, 2, 3 (1998-1999)
; Vengeance tardive (2001) ; La Vie est courbe (2001) ; Réponse
à la question précédente (2002). « Son style est caractérisé par une
constante proximité des marges et un malin plaisir à transgresser les codes.
Ses créations, interpellations conviendrait mieux, sont tout à la fois point de
vue sur l'état du monde, critique des rapports humains, travail sur la
mécanique des mots, mais toujours parcourues d'une énergie joyeuse. Elles
mêlent lecture-performance, concert-performance, poésie, photographie, montages
vidéo, théâtre-installation... et s'articulent autour d'une écriture exigeante.
Il fonde en 1992 la compagnie VoQue, dont le nom est un condensé de voix,
invocation, équivoque. » Pour plus, voir http://voque-rebotier.blogspot.fr/
Peter Cockelbergh is editor of Pierre
Joris—Cartographies of the In-between (Litteraria Pragensia, 2011),
and translator of Boris Groys's Portrait de l’artiste en
masochiste (Éditions Arkhê, 2013). Current projects include
translation of Joris’ A Nomad Poetics, editing an online anthology
of Deep Image(-related) writings, and co-editing, with Pierre Joris, the
collected essays of Robert Kelly as well as a book on Robert Kelly
(ContraMundum Press, 2013). Early November at the Université Libre de
Bruxelles, Peter will also be co-convening, with Franca Bellarsi, an
international poetry seminar titled, Moving Back and Forth between Poetry
as/and Translation: Nomadic Travels and Travails with Alice Notley
and Pierre Joris. Arpine Konyalian
Grenier’s poetry and translations have appeared in numerous publications including Columbia Poetry Review,
The Iowa Review, Fence, Sulfur and
Envoi. She has authored four
collections of poetry, most recently, The Concession Stand: Exaptation at
the Margins (Otoliths, 2011). The Phenomenology of Giving is a
feature she recently guest edited for Big Bridge. (Note: reading
will begin promptly at 19h30 as the upstairs space is reserved by another
group) AT: LE NEXT, 17 rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris, M°
Etienne Marcel. For more, join our CFB group at: or see http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com
12, 13 14 et 15 Nov à 19h30 American poet
Michelle Noteboom has had a series of poems from her book UNCAGED as translated
by Frederic Forte reworked into a spectacular performance piece in French by
the group Choeur de Scène. Here is the
information about that event: Voici une nouvelle occasion de découvrir la
création 2013 de Chœur en Scène Attention :
peut fournir des indices est une forme courte (55mn) pour
14 chanteurs-comédiens. Elle associe des polyphonies vocales de Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc et Thierry
Machuel à des textes drôles et caustiques contemporains de
Michelle Noteboom
(traduits par Frédéric Forte), dans une mise en scène de Benoît Richter.
Télécharger le Flyer des quatre représentations à Anis Gras. Pour
réserver votre place, contactez Anis Gras au 01 49 12 03 29. Tarifs : 8€ / 5€
En espérant vous voir bientôt, Emmanuèle
Dubost, chef de chœur et directrice artistique Tél : 06 70 79 96 33 AT: Anis Gras, le lieu de l'autre au
55 Avenue Laplace, 94110 Arcueil (à deux minutes du RER B Laplace). http://www.choeurenscene.fr/actualites/actualites
13 Nov at 6:30 p.m. The Young Writers & Translators @ AUP Reading Series Jarrah
Burns, writer and LCA major, will be hosting presentations of fiction, poetry,
and playwriting by Venessa Weller (Masters of Arts in Cultural Translation), Lethokuhle
Msimang, Claudia Galtes, AT: AUP, Grand
Salon, 31 av Bosquet, 75007
14th November 7pm Paris launch of The Last
Kings of Sark by Rosa Rankin-Gee. We’re very excited to be hosting the Paris
launch for a book and an author very close to our hearts. Rosa Rankin-Gee won
the inaugural Paris Literary Prize in 2011 for The Last Kings of Sark,
published this November by Virago. The Last Kings of Sark is a bewitching ode
to youth, summer’s strange haze, the idea of an island, scallop smuggling, and
rosé in the morning. A luminous debut from a compelling new voice in literary
fiction. Rosa Rankin-Gee grew up in Kensal Rise, London, but now lives by the
Parc de Belleville in Paris. In 2010, she was one of Esquire magazine's '75
Brilliant Young Brits'. Rosa runs a night-bird version of a Book Club, where up
to 300 people come to swap books and drink cocktails in the former home of
George Bizet. This is her first novel. AT: Shakespeare and Co Paris, 37 Rue de
la Bucherie 75005 Paris
14 Nov at
19h/19h30 Paris Lit Up Open
Mic featuring contemporary poets and writers. Culture Rapide 103, rue Julien Lacroix 75020 The Paris Lit Up Magazine is
available at Shakespeare
& Co.
14 et 15 Nov à 19h30 Last chances to see
American poet Michelle Noteboom’s piece--Noteboom has had a series of poems
from her book UNCAGED as translated by Frederic Forte reworked into a
spectacular performance piece in French by the group Choeur de Scène. Here is the information about that event:
Voici une nouvelle occasion de découvrir la création 2013 de Chœur en Scène Attention : peut fournir des indices
est une forme courte (55mn) pour 14 chanteurs-comédiens. Elle associe
des polyphonies vocales de Claude Debussy,
Francis Poulenc et Thierry Machuel à des textes drôles et
caustiques contemporains de Michelle Noteboom
(traduits par Frédéric Forte), dans une mise en scène de Benoît Richter.
Télécharger le Flyer des quatre représentations à Anis Gras. Pour
réserver votre place, contactez Anis Gras au 01 49 12 03 29. Tarifs : 8€ / 5€
En espérant vous voir bientôt, Emmanuèle
Dubost, chef de chœur et directrice artistique Tél : 06 70 79 96 33 http://www.choeurenscene.fr/actualites/actualites AT: Anis Gras, le lieu de l'autre au
55 Avenue Laplace, 94110 Arcueil (à deux minutes du RER B Laplace).
15 Nov From 7 to 9
pm Concert American
Songs with Take Three. Dorothy's Gallery Ticketing 01 43 57 08 51
16
nov 18.00/21.00 Exposition
de tous les livres de La Camera Verde. Présentation des 30 livres de la série Cartella d’Artista: Alfredo Anzellini,
Franco Belsole, Umberto Bignardi, Giovanni Cozzani, Alessandro De Francesco,
Romina De Novellis, Gerardo Di Fabrizio, Francesco Forlani, Matteo Di
Giamberardino, Luigi Francini, Massimo Fusaro, Elisabetta Gazziero, Marco
Giovenale, Matias Guerra, Aram Kebabdjian, Olivier Kervern, Andrea Inglese,
Anna Macchi, Franco Mancini, Pierre Martin, Grazia Menna, Raffaella Nappo,
Gianni Nigro, Andrea Pacioni, Marco Perri, Nicola Ponzio, Paolo Mussat Sartor,
Ilaria Scarpa, Zeno Tentella, Francesca Vitale, Caroline Zekri AT :
Galerie Laure Roynette, 20 rue de Thorigny 75003 Paris
16 to 19 Nov. Benjamin Britten / Text by Martin
Crimp. "Written on
skin." Opera in English with
French subtitles. Opéra
Comique. Reservations 0 825 01 01
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18th November 7pm Celebration of The
Cahiers Series (with special guests) The series
just received this wonderful review in the Times Literary Supplement: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1333562.ece The Cahiers Series was launched in 2007 as an initiative linking the
American University of Paris with London’s Sylph Editions. Its goal has been
“to make available new explorations in writing, in translating, and in the
areas linking these two activities”. To date 22 cahiers have been published, by
authors as varied as Muriel Spark, Paul Muldoon, Simon Leys, Gao Xingjian,
László Krasznahorkai, and Elfriede Jelinek. Join us to celebrate the series, in
the company of translator Richard Pevear (author of cahier no.1), architect
Vincen Cornu (no.11), translator into French Bernard Turle (no.19), and poet
Jeffrey Greene and artist Ralph Petty (co-authors of no.20), as well as of the
directors of the series Dan Gunn and Daniel Medin. AT: Shakespeare and Co
Paris, 37 Rue de la Bucherie 75005 Paris
18 to 19 Nov "Hello
Hi There" (Digital
Theatre) by Annie Dorsen. Performed in
English. Théâtre de la Villette 01 40 03 75 75 Hello Hi There was inspired and is
based on the correspondance and exchanges in the 1970s between the philosopher
Michel Foucault et the linguist Noam Chomsky.
18 Nov 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/
19 Nov: Andrew
Davidson, the author of the amazing bestseller The Gargole and
our writer in residence running the AUP Writers Group.
Introduced by Hynd Lalam. AT: the Grand Salon,
AUP 31 av Bosquet, 75007.
19 Nov at 7:30 p.m. POETS LIVE with
Rosarita Cuccoli, Bonny Finberg and George Vance. Drinks at the bar from
whenever you like, poetry starts downstairs at 19:30, sharp, please! Rosarita
Cuccoli was born in Bologna, Italy, in 1967 and has lived in Paris since
1999. She writes both poetry and fiction and publishes in English,
Italian and French. Her first collection of poetry, L’Amore Più Profondo
was published in 1998. Poems from this collection were showcased at an
exhibition in the streets of Camogli, on Italy’s Ligurian coast. In 1999, two
of her poems in Italian were nominated for the Italian literary prize, Premio
Miramare. Her second poetry collection, The Love of a Woman,
prefaced by poet/critic Andrew Parkin, was first presented in 2011 at the
Cambridge Society of Paris. Her novel, La Logica della Solitudine was
published in 2004. Rosarita is a graduate from the universities of Cambridge (Magdalene
College), where she took an M.Phil in International Relations, and Bologna,
where she graduated with honours in Political Science, specializing in
Development Cooperation. She has worked for banks, international organizations
and non-profit associations in different countries. She teaches in France and
writes for various publications. Bonny Finberg, a native New
Yorker, has lived in Europe, India and Nepal. Her work has been translated into
French, Japanese and Hungarian. Her poetry, fiction and reviews have appeared
in numerous publications and e-zines, including Le Purple Journal, Upstairs
at Duroc, Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, The Brooklyn Rail,
Evergreen Review, Ping Pong, Neighborhood, Best American Erotica,
most recently the Unbearable Big Book of Sex as well as Lost and
Found: New York Stories from Mr. Beller’s. Her article on the Three Kings
of Klezmer is included in Jews: A People’s History of the Lower East Side,
vol.2. Her chapbook of short stories, How the Discovery of Sugar Produced
the Romantic Era (2006) is featured in the video 5 Guys Read Finberg. Déjà
Vu, a poetry and photocollage chapbook, appeared in 2011. Her photography
has been exhibited as well as published in print and online art journals. Her
novel, Kali’s Day, is forthcoming and she is working on her second
novel. Born in Ohio, George Vance dictated his first poem to his
mother at 5. Following a long hiatus of prosaic teaching gigs sprinkled with
bardly syncopations, he turned full-time to poetry after tiring of translating
verses posted in Metro cars by the RATP in Paris, where he has lived off and on
for the last 30 years. He has also resided in Vienna, Aachen, Brussels and the
French overseas possession New Caledonia (Kanaky), and now lives in Reims. He
has read at numerous Paris venues and his work has been published in Upstairs
at Duroc, Pharos, the on-line magazines Ekleksopgraphia, Nth
position and Retort, and is a regular contributor to the poetry blog
Rewords. His hybrid poetry volume A Short Circuit (including the
poem series Bent Time) and a chapbook, Xmas Collage, were both
published by corrupt press. Vance continues to work on text/image fusion and
street art experiments. Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris,
Métros: Tuileries or Concorde Next POETS LIVE reading will be Dec.17, http://poets-live.com
21 Nov at 7PM: UPSTAIRS AT DUROC, the
Paris literary journal, invites you to a fiction/nonfiction reading in their
series "Pause on the Landing" with writers ISABELLE SOLAL, LALA DRONA
and MELINDA MAYOR. Bios: Isabelle Solal worked as a lawyer for several years
and is currently a PhD student at INSEAD. She is the author of the novel In the
Past Imperfect and several short stories. She was born in France, raised in the
US, and has also lived in the UK, Belgium and Switzerland. Lala Drona is an
American writer/artist whose current project location is Paris. Her latest
publication of short fiction, “Gnaw,” appears in the horror anthology What Fears Become by Imajin Books. More about Drona can be
found at www.basedonafact.com. Melinda Mayor is a
writer and performer whose work has been featured in the online magazine France
Revisited and on stages from Vancouver to London. As a singer, her voice has
been called “100% musical firepower” (The Muse’s Muse) and she can currently be
heard singing French chansons as a singing tour guide of Montmartre. For more
of Mayor’s work, please visit www.MelindaMayor.com. Reading at: Berkeley Books of Paris, 8 rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006
Paris, Metro Odéon.
21 Nov at
19h/19h30 Paris Lit Up Open
Mic featuring contemporary poets and writers. AT: Culture Rapide 103, rue Julien Lacroix 75020 The Paris Lit Up Magazine is
available at Shakespeare
& Co.
22nd November 7pm Concert with Sam Amidon. Born and raised in
Brattleboro, Vermont, Sam Amidon released his fourth album of radically
re-worked folk songs this year on Nonesuch Records. ‘Bright Sunny South’ has
been called “an interior, wandering journey through your own soul”, by none other
than Sam Amidon himself. The album was produced by Sam Amidon in collaboration
with Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman) and legendary engineer Jerry Boys (Buena
Vista Social Club, Vashti Bunyan, R.E.M.) and recorded in London. Sam Amidon
himself not only sings but also plays banjo, fiddle, acoustic guitar, and piano
on the album. In addition to his solo albums, Sam Amidon has collaborated on
performance pieces with musical polymath Nico Muhly, toured as part of Thomas
Bartlett’s group Doveman and the Brooklyn band Stars Like Fleas, collaborated
with Beth Orton, and embarked on a series of live shows with the guitarist Bill
Frisell. Come along for a beautiful musical interlude on a cold Friday
night…AT: Shakespeare and Co Paris, 37 Rue de la Bucherie 75005 Paris
22 to 23 Nov "A
Piece of Work" (Digital Theatre) by
Annie Dorsen. Performed in English. Théâtre de la
Villette 01 40 03 75 75 "Director Annie Dorsen and her tech-savvy
compatriots have purposefully hijacked the text of “Hamlet,” computerized it,
and then created a set of nightly variable algorithms (programmatic commands)
that reshuffle the words, lines, stage directions and scenes of “Hamlet” into a
new configuration each night." The Seattle
Times
25th November 7pm Simon Sebag Montefiore
on One Night in Winter We’re thrilled to welcome best-selling historian Simon
Sebag Montefiore to speak about his new novel, One Night in Winter. Simon Sebag
Montefiore’s history books are world-wide bestsellers, and are published in
over 40 languages. Catherine the Great & Potemkin was shortlisted for the
Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper, and Marsh Biography Prizes. Stalin: The Court of
the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards.
Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award (UK), the LA Times Book Prize for
Biography (USA), Le Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique (France) and the
Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Austria), and is currently being
developed as a TV mini-series. Jerusalem: The Biography won the Jewish Book of
the Year Prize (USA) and was a number one bestseller in the UK. He is the
presenter of the BBC TV series Jerusalem, Making of a Holy City and Rome,
History of the Eternal City. AT: Shakespeare and Co Paris, 37 Rue de la
Bucherie 75005 Paris
25 Nov 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/
28 Nov at
19h/19h30 Paris Lit Up Open
Mic featuring contemporary poets and writers. Culture Rapide 103, rue Julien Lacroix 75020 The Paris Lit Up Magazine is
available at Shakespeare
& Co.
Until 30 Nov. "39 Marches" by John Buchan and Alfred
Hitchcock. Performed in French. Théâtre des Béliers Parisiens
01 42 23 27 67
Until 8th Dec. "Au bois lacté" ("Under Mil Wood") by Dylan
Thomas. Performed in French. (Under Milk Wood) Theatre de Poche
Montparnasse
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Part
II) Writing, and Theater Workshops in Paris this month or to sign up for:
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SING UP SOON: Please keep an eye out for
enrollment for two exceptional back-to-back summer creative writing programs in
Paris: The WICE Paris Writers Workshop hosted at AUP in late
June and the American University of Paris Program in early
July: Summer Creative Writing Institute, now in its third successful
year.
IN NOVEMBER:
Words Alive
O Theatre in English Classes & Workshops Paris 75001. OPEN TO
NATIVE and NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS. Contact: wordsaliveo@gmail.com 06 37 66 27 98 /
01 77 15 71 90
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
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
Sunday 3rd November 12:30-2:30 pm. Welsh poet Kate Noakes will hold an open writing workshop (in English) at Shakespeare & Company. See link for details. Suggested donation 10 euros.
Sat 9th Nov
(17h-19h) and Sunday 10th Nov (11h-15h). Theatre Workshop in
English Native & non-native speakers. Creation of an ensemble through exercises on
voice, breath and movement to explore excerpts from a text in English. Address: 35, rue St. Roch 75001 Paris M°
Pyramides/Tuileries, Map
Fee Native
speakers 40€ Info 06 37 66 27 98 /
01 77 15 71 90 wordsaliveo@gmail.com For a list of all courses, see www.wordsaliveo.info
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Part III) News Reviews and Reviews News: publications, CALLS FOR WORK, new books and more!
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VOLT would like to read your poetry
submissions. Check out our latest issue and if you feel like your work is a
good fit for our publication, please send 3-5 poems of no more than 10 pages
including a self-addressed stamped envelope to: VOLT c/o English Dept
/ Nichols 362 , Sonoma State University ,
1801 E. Cotati Avenue , Rohnert
Park, CA 94928-3609. For more info see http://www.voltpoetry.com/ or their FB page.
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 »
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/
NEW Magazine ZONE issue one is out! Get yourself a copy at: http://www.zonepoetrymagazine.com/#!product/prd3/1223512891/zone-poetry-magazine-for-shipping-in-europe And then consider submitting work for issue 2: Poems: Please send no more than six poems as an email attachment in Word or .PDF format. Essays should be between 500-3000 words. Essays and literary non-fiction considered. Visuals: Please send all visuals in .PDF format. We have a particular interest in work that incorporates both textual and visual elements Full guidelines at http://www.zonepoetrymagazine.com/#!submissions/cihc
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 Duroc
Lucy Binnersley – Reviewer for Paris Lit Up
James Bird – Co-editor
of Belleville Park Pages
Will Cox – Co-editor of Belleville Park Pages
Missy Green – Reviewer
for Paris Lit Up
Helen Cusack O’Keeffe – Co-host of The Paris Writers’ Group and
co-editor of PLU Magazine
Jennifer K. Dick –Curator of Ivy Writers
Jason Francis Mc
Gimsey –Co-host of PLU Open Mic, co-editor of PLU Magazine and web
monkey
Kate Noakes – Co-host
of PLU Open Mic, host of PLU Writing Workshop and co-editor of PLU
Magazine
Julie Poole -
Co-editor of PLU Magazine
Pansy Maurer-Alvarez -Host of Poets Live
Emily Ruck Keene – Special contributor
to Paris Lit Up, Keene as Mustard and co-host of PLU Open Mic Bruce Sherfield – Founder and coordinator of MegaloManiacs
Demian 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.
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.
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
2013 ALL ACCESS SCREENWRITING
COMPETITION CALL FOR
ENTRIES! Our
eleventh annual All Access Screenwriting
Competition is now open for entries. You can choose to take advantage of an
extraordinary opportunity for talented screenwriters to open the door to
Hollywood and its deal-makers and have your work submitted to participating
companies that have already requested our top three Winners. When we asked
writers what they really wanted from a screenwriting competition the response
was overwhelming, ACCESS TO HOLLYWOOD. We've taken this a step further to give
THREE WINNERS unprecedented levels of industry exposure and access, plus some
cool prizes and cash on top.There are also plenty of other opportunities and
prizes to go around, with five finalist prize packages and random entry prizes.
There's a lot of stuff just waiting to be won. Enter by October 31st and qualify for lower entry fees.
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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
BASTILLE is looking for writing and art with a strong 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 (journalists, poets, ranters, storytellers, visionaries…) Write
about something you feel strongly about (passionate or
angry). Something personal or political, about life or the world. And give us a
twist. 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 strong 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 must not have been published
before. Simultaneous submissions fine 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
December