01 October 2014

Readings, Events, Workshops and Beyond- The Literary Happenings in Paris, October 2014

Literary Paris - OCTOBER 2014

PART I: Reading and events
PART II: Writing and other workshops in Paris
PART III: Calls for work, new book and publication releases, submission requests

PART I: Events


Wednesday 01 October @ 19h30 Evening with an Author, Joan Schenkar                        American Library in Paris                                                                              Author and playwright and part-time Paris resident Joan Schenkar discusses her book The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith, which is considered the definitive biography of the late fiction writer. She will also discuss her plays and other book, Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece. 

Wednesday 1 October @ 19h; WWI: Why Did It Happen?                                                         Shakespeare and Company                                                                                                                   To mark this important centenary year, we’re thrilled to present world-acclaimed historians Margaret Macmillan (The War That Ended Peace) and Paul Ham (1914: The Year the World Ended) for a fascinating discussion on what drove the world to war in 1914.                     




Thursday 2 October @ 20h Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring Boomie Aglietti, AT: Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/

Thursday 2 October @ 19h30
Double Change et l’atelier Michael Woolworth
en collaboration avec les éditions Théâtre Typographique et joca seria
 

vous invitent à une lecture de Dominique QUÉLEN et Anne WALDMAN
 

Atelier Michael Woolworth
Place de la Bastille
 
2, rue de la Roquette
Cour Février
75011 Paris
 
Jeudi 2 octobre
Entrée libre                                                                                                                                            Les textes d’Anne Waldman seront lus par son traducteur Vincent Broqua.                                          A l’occasion de la publication d’Archives, pour un monde menacé (tr. V. Broqua, joca seria, 2014) Anne Waldman fera des lectures performances au Mans (Librairie L’herbe entre les dalles, 8 octobre), à La Roche sur Yon (La Maison Gueffier / Le Grand R, 9 octobre) et au festival Midi Minuit Poésie de la Maison de la Poésie de Nantes (11 octobre). Pour plus d’informations, voir www.jocaseria.fr
Bios…
DOMINIQUE QUÉLEN: né en 62; enseignant à Lille; quelques livres (LoqueCâble à âmes multiplesFinir ses restesDes second & premierLes Dispositions de la loiEnoncés-types...); Collaboration régulière avec le compositeur Aurélien Dumont (EglogCroisées dormantesAbîme apogée...) 
ANNE WALDMAN: Poète, performer, activiste, Anne Waldman a co-fondé en 1974 The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics avec Allen Ginsberg à Naropa University, où elle est aujourd'hui directrice artistique des célèbres « Summer Writing Programs ». Anne Waldman  est l'auteur de plus de quarante livres, entre autres Kill or CureMarriage: A SentenceStructure of the World Compared to a Bubble. Son texte poétique Outrider contient un entretien avec Ernesto Cardenal, et des essais sur Lorine Niedecker et Charles Olson. Manatee/Humanity (Penguin, 2009),The Iovis Trilogy (Coffee House Press, 2011) et Gossamurmur(Penguin, 2013) sont parmi ses livres les plus récents. Anne Waldman  est aussi l'auteur du légendaire Fast Speaking Woman(City Lights, San Francisco, 1975), traduit en français sous le titre Femme qui parle vite (Maelstrom, 2008). Son site internet est 
http://www.annewaldman.org/ 
et sa bibliographie exhaustive peut être trouvée à 
http://www.annewaldman.org/publications/. 


Saturday 4 October 14 (Nuit Blanche) 7h-19h; admission free
Performance created by Amanda Coogan at 8pm 
CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
Take part in an artistic happening !
For Nuit Blanche 2014, the CCI has commissioned a new work by Amanda Coogan. Echoing the artist’s work for the Liverpool Biennial 2004, in which she filmed local people head banging to Beethoven, Amanda invites Parisians to dance to Maurice Ravel's iconic “Boléro”. An artistic happening not to be missed, email assistant@centreculturelirlandais.com to take part!
*Amanda’s exhibition Corpus and our historical exhibition Hospice and Charity are open all night*
Screening: Occupy Wall Street
Drop-in any time to this special night-long screening of six experimental documentaries by our filmmaker-in-residence Donal Foreman. Occupy Wall Street charts the protest movement that began on 17 September 2011 in Zuccotti Park, New York City; the OWS slogan “We are the 99%” refers to income inequality and wealth distribution in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population. Foreman’s enquiring images and sound fragments capture the protesters and the authorities alike.

Saturday 4 October @ 18h à 2h de matin dans le cadre de la manifestation A L'ORIGINE (peurs et délices)
organisée par la Mairie du 19éme et la Cie des Treizième.
Nuit Blanche
Ancien Lycée Jean Quarré - 12 rue Henri Ribière 
75019 Paris - Métro Place des Fêtes (ligne11)
entrée libre

avec performances, concerts, lectures, installations, films
programme complet http://lestreiziemes.free.fr

Concordan(s)e, un pari original, des créations de duos inattendus.
20.45 h.
. Cécile Loyer et Violaine Schwartz "L'hippocampe mais l'hipoccampe"
« Cécile Loyer et Violaine Schwartz expérimentent des jeux de langage et de mémoire jusqu’à la surchauffe. 
On pourra découvrir les charges émotionnelles et suggestives des gestes et des mots, en situation de mise à l’épreuve ludique. »
23.00 h.
. Hélène Iratchet et Pauline Klein "Socle"
« C’est comme si nous n’y croyions pas tout à fait, à ce corps qui minaude, qui séduit, qui se met en scène. 
On a voulu le masquer, l’humilier un peu, jouer avec ce langage qui s’écoute, ressembler à des femmes qui l’assumeraient en se trompant d’objet, 
se déguiser comme des adultes, et mimer la vie qu’un corps aurait s’il était trop conscient de lui même. »
Jean François Munnier, directeur festival concordan(s)e
Port 06 07 64 17 40 / mail jeff.munnier@free.fr
association indisciplinaire(s) 117 rue Saint-Maur 75011 Paris

Monday 6 October @ 20h30 Spoken Word Open Mic
Theme: I WISH WE’D STOLEN THAT DOG. You have to include this phrase somewhere in what you read.
Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up 8pm to 9.30pm in the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground.

Monday 6 October @ 19h; Global Book Night
Shakespeare and Company
Join us for a 'Global Book Night' to launch 'Booktober', a month-long campaign to raise funds and awareness for global literacy. Created and pioneered by children's literacy charity Room to Read, Booktober 2014 will be the charity's third month-long campaign, with exciting literary events taking place all over the world throughout the month of October. Join us upstairs at Shakespeare and Company from 7-9pm for an evening of readings from across the world, from countries where Room to Read is most active. There will also be special themed snacks and drinks, and one or two other exciting surprises. Discover new authors and learn more about this great charity---and help us kick off Booktober in style!

Wednesday 8 October @ 19h30; Evening with an Author, Nancy Green
American Library in Paris
Americans living in Paris probably think we know just about all the stories and figures and even legends of the last century. But what about the names that usually aren't in bold? In The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941, Nancy Green explores the lesser known and forgotten Americans who are just as key in the formation of the American Colony, as those earlier folks referred to themselves. She even recounts a bit about the history of the American Library in Paris and how it was viewed in its early days.                                                 The Wall Street Journal praised the book, writing, "Ms. Green's thorough and perceptive study tells the 'untold story' of Americans on the other side of the Seine, from the wealthy businessmen and American heiresses who came over in the last decades of the 19th century to the less-glamourous American doughboys who stayed on following World War I."
Thursday 9 October @ 20hParis Lit Up Open Mic featuring Marilyn McCabe, AT: Culture Rapide 103 rue Julien Lacroix 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/

Thursday 9 October @ 19h30
CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
Admission free; reservation recommended; in English
Regard sur l’Irlande: Polly Devlin: Writer-in-residence Polly Devlin is a writer, broadcaster and filmmaker. Her first book All of Us There is now a Virago Modern Classic; her last book was A Year in the Life of an English Meadow. In 1993 she received an OBE for services to literature. She is currently an adjunct Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. Born in a remote part of Northern Ireland, Polly Devlin will talk about the complexities of identity.


Thursday 9 October @ 12h30 Bistrot Littéraire: Les Écritures de Manuel Antonio Periera
Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
Salle du Foyer 46 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
Tarif: 5 (Sandwich et boisson)
Le temps d’un déjeuner, rencontrez l’auteur Manuel Antonio Pereira, à l’occasion des représentations de son spectacle Permafrost qui se joue à la Maison des métallos du 07 au 19 octobre. 
Le travail de cet écrivain belge se déploie au travers de multiples écritures scéniques. Son ambition est de placer toujours l'exigence littéraire au centre de ses écrits, qu'ils soient mis au service du théâtre, de la danse ou d'autres recherches (travaux à partir d'ateliers avec des sans abris...).
Les textes de Pereira abordent souvent le monde des "sans mots" : personnages s'exprimant peu ou avec difficultés, étrangers qui ne maîtrisent pas la langue d'accueil, ouvriers frustes plus familiers du langage des machines que celui des hommes, enfants dans un stade "pré-logique" du langage, individus taiseux, presque autistes, inaptes à la socialité, chez qui pourtant quelque chose d'inexorable cherche à se dire... Leur réalité, ils la vivent d'abord, et peinent toujours à la dire. La langue ici est écrite à revers, comme si l'on retroussait l'écorce des êtres.
Loin des cloisonnements dont les différentes disciplines font souvent l'objet, l'auteur prouve que la modernité d'un texte, quel qu'il soit, est d'abord liée à la force de sa recherche littéraire. Il nous montre combien, par ce chemin, le texte théâtral se libère toujours plus, s'ouvre infiniment. Les frontières sont ténues et l’histoire littéraire elle-même est une preuve de cette porosité. 
Un comédien du spectacle lira des extraits des œuvres.
Sa pièce Permafrost (Espace 34, 2010) est lauréate du premier prix des Metteurs en scène en 2012. 

Sunday 12 October @ 19h30- Moving Parts Script Reading; Gary Holmes’ “Diary of a Nobody” adapted from the book by George Grossmith
Carr’s Pub and Restaurant; 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris; Metro : Tuileries


Monday 13 October @ 20h30 Spoken Word Open Mic
Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up 8pm to 9.30pm in the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground.

Tuesday 14 October @ 19h30; Panel Discussion: On Writing About French Food, Alexander Lobrano and Clotilde Dusoulier
American Library in Paris
Food writers Alexander Lobrano and Clotilde Dusoulier will discuss their latest respective books, Hungry for France and Edible French: Tasty Expressions and Cultural Bites. This panel discussion will explore writing about food in France, reviewing restaurants and the different food movements in France now, picking up the thread from Patricia Wells and Ann Mah's event last season.
Tuesday 14 October @ 19h30 POETS LIVE presents a evening of poetry and music, with a book launch and a CD launch, with Patrick Williamson, Joe Horgan, Adrian Boyle.  Drinks at the bar from whenever you like, poetry starts downstairs at 19h30                                                                                                                               Patrick Williamson is an English poet who currently lives near Paris. He has published a dozen books of translations and poetry, and recently branched out into music and filmpoems (Exile for FIFE 2014, as part of the Festival franco-anglaise de poèsie, and Afterwords, set to music by Mauro Coceano). His poetry is also published in French, Italian, Bulgarian and Georgian. He is the editor and translator of The Parley Tree, An Anthology of Poets from French-speaking Africa and the Arab World (Arc Publications, 2012). His most recent poetry collections: Nel Santuario (bilingual English-Italian, Samuele Editore, 2013) and Gifted (Corrupt Press, 2014).                                                                                                 Joseph Horgan was born in Birmingham, England of Irish immigrant parents. He is a poet, author, reviewer and journalist. Amongst other acknowledgements he is a past winner of The Patrick Kavanagh Prize and the recipient of an Arts Council Bursary. The author of three critically acclaimed poetry collections and a prose work that was chosen to be broadcast on Irish radio his current work, Men Without Names, is a collaborative work of poetry and traditional Irish music about the experience of Irish emigration. He has written all of the text for the CD.                                                Adrian Boyle is a traditional Irish musician from Bray in County Wicklow. Reared within the tradition itself he was taught to play music by his father. A respected session musician he is a multi-instrumentalist, playing flute, whistle and various percussion instruments. He also plays, on the CD, an accordion that was passed down to him by his father. He has either composed, arranged or co-arranged all of the music on the CD.  Adrian and Joseph would also like to fully acknowledge that Men Without Names has included the work of a number of other musicians and performers.                                                                                                    Una Fitzgerald and Kitty Sisson will be performing at with Joseph and Adrian.                                 At Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris.  Métros: Tuileries or Concorde. http://poets-live.com December preview: Alice Notley
Wednesday 15 October @ 18h; The Bard-en-Seine Readings                                                                             Shakespeare and Company                                                                                                                                Throughout 2014, in honour of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, we’re hosting the Bard-en-Seine Readings. The goal is simple: to revisit and celebrate some of Shakespeare’s most loved plays. So, once a month, we will be hosting informal read-throughs in the library, which will be recorded and sent out as podcasts in this very newsletter.                                                                                                                                        For October, the play will be Hamlet and the reading will take place on Wednesday 15th at 6pm, in the library.                                                                                                                                                                           If you’d like to take part, please email Milly Unwin at milly@shakespeareandcompany.com, and tell her whether you’d prefer a larger or a smaller role. Parts will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis, and we’ll let you know a week in advance of the reading whether you have a role. No preparation necessary, and we’ll provide the scripts. Please note that, due to space restrictions, the Bard-en-Seine Readings will only be open to those taking part.

Wednesday 15 October @ 20hFestival Francophonie Métissée: Ecritures du Sénégal
Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
Salle du Foyer 46 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
La littérature sénégalaise est l'une des plus importantes de l'Afrique francophone. Au sein d’un exceptionnel corpus, découvre ce pays des lettres avec trois de ses représentants parmi les plus emblématiques : Aminata SowFall, Nafissatou Dia Diouf et FelwineSarr.
La comédienne Solo Gomez lira des extraits des œuvres. 
Aminata SowFall, pionnière de la littérature africaine francophone et figure de proue de la modernisation culturelle de son pays, est une observatrice de la société sénégalaise, dont elle se fait la portraitiste, en ancrant son œuvre dans le quotidien de ses concitoyens.
Ecrivain, universitaire et musicien, Felwine Sarr appartient à la nouvelle lignée d’intellectuels qui tendent à changer la société sénégalaise. Empreinte de spiritualité, son œuvre déploie une écriture singulière et nourrie de réflexions philosophiques.
Tout à tout littéraire, Nafissatou Dia Diouf passe aisément de la nouvelle à la poésie, avec des incursions dans la littérature jeunesse et les chroniques de société. Teintés de réalisme et d’humour, certains de ses textes sont des satires de la société sénégalaise contemporaine et de l’homo senegalensis en situation de travail.
Soirée animée par la journaliste Catherine Pont-Humbert.
C'est par le chant que Solo Gomez pénètre dans le monde du théâtre. En 1997, elle chante et joue dans la pièce de Koltes Dans la solitude des champs de coton, mise en scène par Frédéric Dussennes.A cette occasion, elle travaille avec Vincent Goesthals, l'actuel directeur du théâtre du Peuple à Bussang. Cette collaboration sera renouvelée sur plusieurs de ses créations.
Solo Gomez travaille actuellement à la mise en scène d'un conte pour adolescents qu’elle a écrit et qui sera joué en novembre 2014 en France et en juin 2015 à Saint Louis du Sénégal.
Elle anime également des ateliers théâtre et conte pour les enfants à partir de 6 ans.
En collaboration et avec le soutien de l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, avec l’aide du département Francophonie de Wallonie-Bruxelles International, de la Délégation générale Wallonie-Bruxelles et du Ministère français de la Culture et de la Communication. En partenariat avec TV5MONDEAfrica Vivre et Africa N°1.

Thursday 16 October @ 20hParis Lit Up Open Mic featuring Megan Bullick, AT: Culture Rapide 103 rue Julien Lacroix 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/

Thursday 16 October @ 18h30 The American University of Paris (AUP) presents Dan Gunn, presentation of THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL BECKETT VOLUME III.
Grand Salon, 31 avenue Bosquet 75007

Friday 17 Saturday 18 October @ 19h30
HotForTheatre presentsI ALICE I
7€ (5€ for students and unemployed), reservation recommended, in English
Running time: 65 mins (approx.)
CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
Written and directed by Amy Conroy
With Clare Barrett, Amy Conroy
Alice and Alice are coming out … finally.
This stirring piece of documentary theatre is an unflinching and acutely personal love story that spans six decades. Two exceptional, opinionated women were spotted winking at each other in Crumlin Shopping Centre. Now they are, reluctantly, in a show. Defying stereotype, they’re here to share with you something they’ve never dared before. A fresh, human and hilarious piece from defiant new company HotForTheatre, I
Alice I explores the monumental journey of a most unlikely couple. It will seduce you, it will move you, it will touch you … in all the right places.

Friday 17 October @ 19h; Philosophers in the Library: The Politics of Style
Shakespeare and Company
What is literary style? In what sense can it be said to be political? In this talk, Daniel Hartley will give a brief overview of the history of the concept of style and will explain why and how it became central to the work of three Marxist literary critics: Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson. He will provide an overview of the politico-philosophical problems that style raises (e.g., the advent of novelty, transindividual experience and historical temporality) and will share with the audience some of the concepts he himself has developed for the political analysis of literary styles. 

                                                                                                                    Daniel Hartley is Lecturer in English and American Literature and Culture at the University of Giessen (Germany). His book, The Politics of Style: Marxist Poetics in and beyond Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson, will be published by Brill in 2015.

Saturday 18-26 October - Exhibition: VERNISSAGE
Susan Cantrick is an American visual artist who began her work at WICE. She will be showing at the annual Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, opening October 18th--to see a sample piece by Cantrick and to read her bio and past show history as well as an artist statement in French, see http://www.realitesnouvelles.org/exposants/2009.php?id=658&artiste=cantrick-susan.
For complete information on the event and all of the artists showing, see:  ahttp://www.realitesnouvelles.org/ and for a closer look at Réalités Nouvelles and what they are about, keep up with their blog at http://realitesnouvelles.blogspot.fr/ AT: the Parc Floral de Vincennes on the edge of paris. M° Vincennes.

Monday 20 October @ 20h30- Spoken Word Open Mic
Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up 8pm to 9.30pm in the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground.

Monday 20 October @ 19h; Discussion with Bonnie Greer
Shakespeare and Company
We’re delighted to present the wonderful Bonnie Greer, who will be discussing her new memoir, A Parallel Life, and the search for an authentic voice over the course of her career.
Bonnie Greer is an award-winning playwright and has written more than a dozen plays for BBC Radio, a short film for BBC2, a documentary for BBC television, two novels, and a biography of the writer and social activist Langston Hughes. She has also turned her hand to acting, playing Joan of Arc on the Paris stage. Bonnie Greer has lived in the United Kingdom since 1986 and was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2010 for her contribution to the arts and, the following year, she was named one of the UK's Top 300 Public Intellectuals. A regular contributor to Sky News Paper Review, BBC2's The Review Show and Radio 4's Any Questions, she also writes occasionally for The London Evening Standard, the Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph.                                                                                                                                              A Parallel Life is the first volume of Bonnie Greer’s emotive, outspoken, and inspiring memoirs. It tells the story of a young African-American girl born into the black working class, growing up in a culture of racism and limited opportunity in 1960s Chicago—and ultimately receiving an award from the Queen for her contribution to the arts in the UK.
Tuesday 21 October @19h30 Ivy Writers Paris invites you to a special spectacular bilingual reading with American author Julie Carr and French poet Leslie Kaplan. The authors will read from published work but also will be sharing new translations on the night!
At : Delaville Café (1er étage) 34 bvd bonne nouvelle 75010 Paris M° Bonne nouvelle (ligne 8 ou 9)

BIOS:  Julie Carr is the author of six books of poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta, 2010), RAG (Omnidawn, 2014), and the forthcoming Think Tank (Solid Objects, 2015). She is also the author of Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry (Dalkey Archive, 2013), and the co-editor of Active Romanticism: The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice, forthcoming from University of Alabama Press (2015). Her co-translations (with Jennifer Pap) of Apollinaire and Leslie Kaplan have been published in Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere and a chapbook of selections from Kaplan's "Excess-The Factory" has recently been released by Commune Editions. Carr was a 2011-12 National Endowment of the Arts fellow and is an associate professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Her work has been anthologized widely, including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. She has been the recipient of various awards including The Sawtooth Poetry Award, and The National Poetry Series. She lives in Denver and is a co-founder of Counterpath Press (http://counterpathpress.org/)and Counterpath Gallery. Leslie Kaplan est née à New-York en 1943, elle a été élevée à Paris dans une famille américaine, elle écrit en français. Après des études de philosophie, d'histoire et de psychologie, elle travaille deux ans en usine et participe au mouvement de Mai 68. Elle publie depuis 1982 (L'Excès-l'usine, Hachette/P.O.L, repris en 1987 aux éditions P.O.L), des récits et des romans (Le Pont de Brooklyn, Le Psychanalyste, Depuis maintenant-Miss Nobody knowsMillefeuille...), des essais (Les Outils), des pièces de théâtre (Toute ma vie j'ai été une femme, Louise, elle est folle, Déplace le ciel). Site de l'auteur : lesliekaplan.net
For more information see the IVY blog at http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/  or join IVY’s FB group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/101898279922603/ 


Thursday 23 October @ 20h Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring Chris Newens, AT: Culture Rapide 103 rue Julien Lacroix 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/

Saturday 25 October @ 17h - Les Rendez-vous de la Librairie presenté “Vera” de Jean-Pierre Orban
Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
Librairie Wallonie-Bruxelles 46 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
Un samedi par mois, la Librairie vous invite à rencontrer un auteur dont l’ouvrage est récemment paru. 
Au retour de Rome, quand j’ai aperçu la silhouette d’Augusto dans l’immense hall de la gare Victoria où il était venu m’accueillir, j’ai eu honte. Le train nous avait ramenés. Je ne peux le dire qu’ainsi. Au sens propre. Ce n’était plus nous qui nous emportions. Qui nous lancions vers l’avant comme à l’aller, les cheveux au vent, penchés par la fenêtre, la poussière me battant le visage, venue, on aurait dit, du sol de l’Éden. Le train nous ramenait. Tels des corps que l’on détachait de la terre offerte. On nous reconduisait dans le pays où nous vivions. Mais c’était quoi la vie ? Et c’était où ?
Londres, 1930 : Vera vit à Little Italy avec ses parents, Ada et Augusto, immigrés italiens. Rapidement la jeune fille se laisse enrôler dans une organisation à la gloire de Mussolini. Elle croit naïvement que l’idéologie fasciste lui forgera une identité. Mais l’arrivée de la guerre chamboule ses espérances. Écartelée entre sa langue maternelle et celle du pays d’adoption, Vera se laissera emporter par d’autres dérives. Puis elle croira enfin venu le temps de construire le récit de sa vie et de l’Histoire. De trouver sa vérité, elle dont le prénom signifie «vraie», et de la transmettre…
Peuplé de personnages décrits à l’encre noire, ce roman bouleversant nous parle d’identité et de racines. Et de l’espoir, parfois déçu, de les dépasser.
Vera est le premier roman de Jean-Pierre Orban, qui a écrit pour le théâtre et la jeunesse. Il vit entre Bruxelles et Paris.

Sunday 26 October @ 19h30- Moving Parts Script Reading; Elisabeth Piermé-Boï’s “A chacun son arc-en-ciel”
(scénario en français)  
Carr’s Pub and Restaurant; 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris; Metro : Tuileries


Monday 27 October @20h30 Spoken Word Open Mic
Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up 8pm to 9.30pm in the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground.

Tuesday 28 October @ 19h30; Evening with an Author: Mimi Thorisson
American Library in Paris
Many people dream of leaving city life to live in a French village and raising a family surrounded by vineyards and fields. Blogger and food writer Mimi Thorisson did just that when she moved from Paris with her photographer husband, Oddur Thorisson, and their family of 7 children and 14 dogs to Médoc in the southwest region of France. Mimi started to blog about her life in Médoc, of which food and cooking played a big part. Her widely-read blog Manger was winner of the 2013 Saveur Best Food Blog - Best Regional Cuisine Blog. She has a cooking show on Cuisine+ and featured in many magazines including Elle, Bon Appetit, Vanity Fair, and Glamour, with recent features in the French Elle (July 2014) on "BARBECUE D'ÉTÉ CHEZ MIMI THORISSON."                                                                                               She will be talking about her first cookbook, A Kitchen in France: A Year of Cooking in my Farmhouse, along with her husband Oddur, who was the photographer for the book.
Wednesday 29 October @ 19h30; Evening with an Author: Emmanuel Carrère                                 American Library in Paris                                                                                                                                      On the occasion of his award-winning book’s translation into English, celebrated French writer Emmanuel Carrère speaks (in English) about Edward Limonov, the man at the center of this marvel of a book: a portrait of postwar Russia through a personal odyssey that is more improbable than fiction.
Wednesday 29 October @ 19h La Bande Dessinée Est Une Sport De Combat (Conférence-débat)
Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
Salle de Cinéma 46 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
Animée par Erwin Dejasse, historien de l’art et théoricien de la bande dessinée, Thierry Van Hasselt, auteur et cofondateur des éditions Frémok, et Anne-Françoise Rouche, fondatrice et directrice artistique de La “S” Grand Atelier.
De nouveaux horizons se sont ouverts à la bande dessinée qui ambitionne plus que jamais de se redéfinir au-delà des frontières qui lui ont été assignées. En partant d’une approche historique de la bande dessinée dans l’art brut et outsider, Erwin Dejasse exposera les jalons de cette rencontre entre deux territoires aux frontières élastiques.
Thierry Van Hasselt présentera les pratiques de bandes dessinées du collectif Frémok, sa volonté de questionner la notion d’auteur, plus particulièrement à travers le projet Match de Catch.
Anne-Françoise Rouche rendra compte de l’aventure de Match de Catch à Vielsalm, de ses nombreuses retombées, interrogera les nombreux questionnements qu’elle suscite et les enjeux de reconnaissance des artistes déficients mentaux.
Thursday 30 October @ 20hParis Lit Up Open Mic Halloween Bananza, AT: Culture Rapide 103 rue Julien Lacroix 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com
Thursday 30 October @ 19h The Creative Writing Program at AUP invites you to
An Evening Celebrating The Plume Anthology of Poetry
Daniel Lawless (Editor), Marilyn Hacker, Claire Malroux, Emmanuel Moses, Molly Lou Freeman, and Jeffrey Greene
October 30, 7 p.m. Grand Salon, 31 avenue Bosquet 75007

Daniel Lawless is the founder and editor of PLUME: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry (www.plumepoetry.com).  He will be speaking about poetry and publishing with university students at AUP on Oct. 29th at 3:30 p.m. in an open class format: Grenelle G21.
Marilyn Hacker’s most recent books are Names, Essays on Departure, and Desesperanto, and an essay collection, Unauthorized Voices. Her translations from the French include Marie Etienne’s King of a Hundred Horsemen, which received the 2009 American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, Emmanuel Moses’ He and I, and Rachida Madani’s Tales of a Severed. For her own work, she is a past recipient of the Lenore Marshall Award for Winter Numbers, the Poets’ Prize for Selected Poems, the National Book Award for Presentation Piece, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American PEN Voelcker Award for poetry, and the Argana International Poetry Prize from Morocco’s Bayt as-Sh’ir. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Paris, and is an editor of the journal Siècle 21. Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2013 will be published by W. W. Norton in the winter of 2014. 
Claire Malroux is the author of a dozen collections of poems, including Ni si lointain and La Femme sans paroles, both published by Le Castor astral, and also two innovative hybrids. Chambre avec vue sur l’éternité, traces the encounter of two poets – Emily Dickinson and Claire Malroux.  Neither a biography of the former nor a memoir of the latter, it is a work of the imagination that reenacts the fascination the American poet has for her French “correspondent,” Traces, sillons takes the form of a journal of the poet’s process, as she reflects on books read or remembered, on translating some of those books, and on the emergence of new poems, also given, sometimes in multiple versions, in the text.
Emmanuel Moses was born in Casablanca in 1959. He spent his childhood in Jerusalem and moved to Paris in 1986 where he has been living since. He is a writer and translator, working between Hebrew, German, English, and French. Amongst the authors he has translated are S.Y. Agnon, Yehuda Amichaï, and Raymond Carver. He is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and fiction, including most recently L'animal, Le rêve passe, and He and I (translated by Marilyn Hacker).
Molly Lou Freeman teaches at the International School of Paris and was a recent lecturer in poetry for the Creative Writing Departments at NYU and Columbia University.  Molly Lou received honors in Poetry from Brown University and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop (M.F.A) where she won an Academy of American Poets Award. She has twice been awarded poetry grants from the French national literary endowment (CNL). She is currently writing a novel and translating into French the poetry of New York Poet Geoffrey Nutter as well as the late poems of Barbara Guest.  Her poetry has been published widely.
Jeffrey Greene is the AUP Creative Writing Coordinator.  His forthcoming book in 2015 is based on the cult of wild edibles.  He is the author four collections of poetry, a memoir, and two nature books.  His most recent book is Shades of the Other Shore, Cahier Series, is a multi-genre exploration with the artist and AUP professor Ralph Petty.



PART II: Workshops

Saturday 4 October @ 16h-18h Paris Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop, AT: Le Barbouquin, 1 rue Dénoyez 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/

Sunday 5 October @ 18h30-20h30 The Other Writers’ Group:
Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005. An excellent feedback workshop for 6 euros.  Join us afterwards for happy hour at The Gentleman, 1 bis rue Hautefeuille, 75006, behind place St Michel.

Sunday 5 October @ 12h30-14h30Paris Write Up – A Workshop to Enliven Your Creative Genius with Shannon Cain, AT: Shakespeare and Company (upstairs library), 37 rue de la Bûcherie 75005. For more info: http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/

Saturday 11 October @ 16h-18hParis Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop, AT: Le Barbouquin, 1 rue Dénoyez 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/

Saturday 11 October @ 14h-16h; Autofiction Writing Workshop with Shannon Cain
American Library in Paris
In this two-hour workshop with fiction writer Shannon Cain, participants will explore autofiction, through presentation by Ms. Cain, followed by group discussion, a writing exercise a discussion of a text that will be assigned in advance.  To take part in the workshop, please RSVP by email to programs manager Grant Rosenberg at rosenberg@americanlibraryinparis.org. Non-members can attend by purchasing a 15 € day pass.
Sunday 12 October @ 18h30-20h30 The Other Writers’ Group:
Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005. An excellent feedback workshop for
6 euros.  Join us afterwards for happy hour at The Gentleman, 1 bis rue Hautefeuille, 75006, behind place St Michel.


Saturday 18 October @ 16h-18hParis Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop, AT: Le Barbouquin, 1 rue Dénoyez 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/

Sunday 19 October @ 18h30-20h30 The Other Writers’ Group:
Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005. An excellent feedback workshop for 6 euros.  Join us afterwards for happy hour at The Gentleman, 1 bis rue Hautefeuille, 75006, behind place St Michel.

Saturday 25 October @ 16h-18h Paris Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop, AT: Le Barbouquin, 1 rue Dénoyez 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/

Sunday 26 October @ 18h30-20h30 The Other Writers’ Group:
Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005. An excellent feedback workshop for 6 euros.  Join us afterwards for happy hour at The Gentleman, 1 bis rue Hautefeuille, 75006, behind place St Michel.


PART III: Reviews, Releases, Submission Requests 

Call for Submissions!
Paris Lit Up Press, an independent publishing collective based in the City of Light, is looking for innovative creative expressions of any sort. Prose, poetry, spoken word, visual artwork, audio, video, you name it: if you can dream up a way to “publish” your work, we want to hear about it. There are no submission fees and, although we are not exclusively Paris-centric, we do love the chance to sit and chat at cafés with our writers. For more info: http://press.parislitup.com

Paris Lit Up Community Events Calendar
Reading in Paris? Promoting your new book? Does your band rock? Want to promote your event? Add your own event to the Paris Lit Up community calendar! With over 100 visitors per day, our free, open community calendar is the best way to get the word out. For more info: http://parislitup.com/events)

Paris Lit Up Magazine n°2 (2014)
Back with a boom, Paris Lit Up Magazine n°2 is much more than a simple repetition. Now with 200 full-color pages, a stunning semi-transparent dust jacket and over 100 contributors, this independent publication is truly a testament to grassroots DIY publications. It is available in both print as well as 2 digital versions, including a new multimedia ibook format [coming soon] that includes special video content. Poetry, short-stories, flash fiction, photography, artwork, interviews and even comic books: Paris Lit Up Magazine n°2 has something for every connoisseur of contemporary writing.
Order online now at http://press.parislitup.com/ or purchase from Shakespeare and Company, Les Mots de la Bouche, or any PLU open mic event!

#43 The Journalavailable now - has Andy Hickmott's critical faculties challenged by collections from Tim Allen, Pansy Maurerz-Alvarez, Kate Noakes and Tom Watts; while Emma Lee & myself struggle to make unified sense of collections by Diana S Adams, John Barron, Bibi Jacob, Mark Russell, Alan Baker, James Byrne, A.C. Evans & Rupert M Loydell, Gavin Goodwin, Chrys Salt, Todd Swift, Adam Williams; a coffee table book by Kevin Reid & George Szirtes; and more collections from Gareth Farmer, Dylan Harris, Patrick Lodge & D.E.Oprava. Don't anyone dare accuse us of a 'lack of commitment'.
Poetry being The Journal's raison d'être there is of course new work in #43 from MA C Bevan, R G Bishop, Robin Brumby, Ian Clarke, Daniel Roy Connelly, Jim Conwell, David Cooke, Seth Crook, John Daniel, Gram Joel Davis, Clive Donovan, Frank Dullaghan, Ann Egan, Marilyn Hammick, Andy Hickmott, Richard Hughes, Khalid Khan, Noel King, Allan Johnston, Emma Lee, David Mac, Alwyn Marriage, Darren Millard, Paul Murphy, Tendai R. Mwanaka, Emyr Payne, Andrew Pidoux, Terry Quinn,
Gordon Scapens, AM Spence, Elaine Taylor, J.S.Watts and Gareth Writer-Davies.
Time to take out/renew the subscription?
UK only - copies available for £4.00 [incl. p&p UK] annual subscription (3 issues) £11.00
(all cheques in UK currency please and made payable to 'Sam Smith'. Or through PayPal.)


Moving Parts Call for Original Plays
Have an original play that you would like to hear read?
Contact Stephanie now to book a reading of YOUR play
Bookings being taken for Winter 2014-2015                                                                                                                     Check the website for the latest schedule : www.movingparts.org.uk                                                            or send an e-mail to movingpartsparis@gmail.com                                                                             

Recent Release of The Bastille!                                                                                                                        THE BASTILLE is an upstart literary magazine published in Paris. It is the voice of the community of poets and storytellers that is SpokenWord Paris.                                                                                                                             In Paris you can get it at SpokenWord or from Shakespeare & Company. All 3 beautiful back issues are available for €5 – email themag.paris at gmail.com or ask at SpokenWord.

The bi-monthly publication, Belleville Park Pages, calls for writers!                                                 Submission Mission: The Pages are focused on supporting the growth of writers from around the world. We publish all forms: poetry, short stories, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, etc. Submissions will be considered for both print and online publication. Submit your work to: words@bellevilleparkpages.com     
Stop by http://www.bellevilleparkpages.com for more information and to find a Pages vendor near you!
The Montmartre Dionysia is looking for plays for the third edition of its biannual English-language theatre festival in Paris!
Montmartre Dionysia III: Of honeyed words but evil mind
Festival running through the 1st - 6th of December 2014
Submit your 12-20 min play together with a short bio by the 21st of October to:
More info about the festival & competition guidelines at http://www.montmartredionysia.com/
Actors! 7.30 pm on the 28th of October is the festival's casting day, at a venue TBA. Save the date.

Open call from the Poetry Brothel:
For its Parisian event, The Poetry Brothel is looking for a batch of poetry whores: male and female, emerging and established, local and international. Are you a poet? Do you enjoy reading poetry in your bedroom at home? Have you ever put on a costume and changed your name? Would you like a glass of absinthe right now?! If so, please send five poems (no longer than two pages each) , your professional bio, a Poetry Brothel "character" bio (thepoetrybrothel.com/meet.html), and a photo of yourself to The Madame at thepoetrybrothel@gmail.com. We'll be soon announcing the date and venue but we can say already that the Paris Poetry Brothel will occur during the weekend that goes from November 14th to 16th. You'll be paid by the clients for private readings that you give. Perks include free booze for those of drinking age and professional photography sessions. Serious inquiries only.  

About The Poetry Brothel:
The Poetry Brothel is a unique and immersive poetry event that takes poetry outside classrooms and lecture halls and places it in the lush interiors of a bordello. Based in concept on the fin-de-siecle bordellos in New Orleans and Paris, many of which functioned as safe havens for fledgling, avant-garde artists, The Poetry Brothel's "Madame" presents a rotating cast of poets as "whores," each operating within a carefully constructed character, who impart their work in public readings, spontaneous eruptions of poetry, and most distinctly, as purveyors of private, one-on-one poetry readings in back rooms. For a small fee, all of the "poetry whores" are available for these sequestered readings at any time during the event. Of course, any true brothel need a good cover; The Poetry Brothel's is an immersive cabaret, offering a full bar, live jazz, burlesque dancers, painters, and fortune-tellers, with newly integrated themes, performances and installations at each event. Central to this experience is the creation of character, which for poet and audience function as disguise and as freeing device, enabling The Poetry Brothel to be a place of uninhibited creative expression in which the poets and audience can be themselves in private. Past guest readers have included Paul Muldoon, Mark Doty, Jerome Rothenberg, Dorianne Laux, Dorothea Lasky and Ariana Reines, among dozens of others.

NEW RELEASE from KEVIN VARRONE :: Furniture Press Books presents BOX SCORE : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Furniture Press is happy to release Kevin Varrone's Box Score : An Autobiography, which is limited to 150 copies, each signed and numbered by the author, and with cover images/collages created by artist Randel Plowman. Shipping is free on this title.
As an added bonus, the first 20 book purchases (from the website) come with a signed frameable Giclée print of one of the twenty original collages by Randel Plowman which were commissioned specifically for Box Score.

You’re invited to the Online Release of BlazeVOX14, an online journal of voice!
BlazeVOX [books] presents innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Our books push at the frontiers of what is possible with our innovative poetry, fiction and select non-fiction and literary criticism. Our fundamental mission is to disseminate poetry, through print and digital media, both within academic spheres and to society at large. We seek to publish the innovative works of the greatest minds writing poetry today, from the most respected senior poets to extraordinarily promising young writers. We select for publication only the highest quality of writing on all levels regardless of commercial viability. Our outlets of publication strive to enrich cultural and intellectual life, and foster regional pride and accomplishments. BlazeVOX consciously acquires a collection of titles providing focus, continuity, and a basis for the development of future publications. BlazeVOX is committed to the dissemination of knowledge.

To explore the publication and the just released Fall 2014 edition, please visit http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/journal/.