WRITING and WRITERS in PARIS FRANCE:
A List of Literature events, reading series and
open mikes, & some local Paris publications
for Fall 2017
Publications out of Paris in
English
AUP: used to have a publication, so check in with them to see if that is ongoing.
Upstairs at Duroc:
Currently
run by Barbara Beck. They often seek editorial help and readers if you are
interested. https://wice.wildapricot.org/creative-writing-literature
Bellevue Park Pages:
Comes out
every 2 weeks, costs 2euros. I am not certain they are still in business. See:
The Bastille:
Will be
accepting work at some point this year. Comes out from the Spoken Word Paris
group. Keep your eye on: https://spokenwordparis.org/b/call-for-submissions/
Paris Lit Up:
Recently accepting
work for issue 5—art & texts. Query if you want to try to slip something
into their hands just under the gun, or watch for calls for issue 6 this spring. http://parislitup.com/paris-lit-up-magazine/
and see their FB community page for more.
Regular Monthly events:
bilingual (Eng-French)
Ivy Writers Paris:
Monthly
events with 2+ authors. Free, venue changes so check blog at http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/. Dates: 3 Oct
(George Vance, Bremner Duthie, Donald Truman and Jason Stoneking for PLU), 17
Oct (Laura Mullen and Vincent Broqua), 21 Nov (Ostachevsky and Marie Borel), 5
Dec 2017 (Engish-Catalan-French Reading for “Parentheses” English Lit mag from
Barcelona, Spain) then 23 Jan (Elena
Rivera, Margo Berdeshevsky and TBConfirmed Matthieu Brosseau), 13 Feb (Lily
Robert-Foley and , 20 march, and events in April and May have not had their
dates set. Join the FB group or community page, or check in for exact addresses
(moves venues) and info just before the events online.
Double Change:
longest
running bilingual series in Paris. Like Ivy, they move venues. Join their
emailing list or check in online with them at: http://doublechange.org/ I also posted
details for their next event near the bottom of the list—young writers’ festival with many
readers.
Regular Weekly events in
English:
Spoken Word Paris:
Monday
night open mike with featured authors. 20h sign up, goes til around 11pm. Au
Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. https://spokenwordparis.org/ for full info.
Open Secret: SW2:
Wednesday
night open mike with featured authors. 20h30 sign up, goes til around 11:30pm. May
be on hiatus this year.
Paris Lit Up:
Thursday night open mike for text and music, with
featured authors. 8pm sign up, goes til around 11:30pm. AT: Culture Rapide,
103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020 http://parislitup.com/paris-lit-up-open-mic/
Poets-Live
Contrary to
their ads, they are NOT the oldest running Anglophone series in Paris, but they
are the best space for Anglophone events as they feature 3 authors a night for
their readings. The oldest series was “Live Poets” by John Kliphan. After his
passing Pansy Maurer Alvarez got this new series underway, reversing the title.
Last Sept it was handed over the Malik who is a fabulous new organizer out of
New York, graduate of the LIU Brooklyn MFA Program. He runs events that happen
almost monthly. Keep your eye on forthcoming events at https://www.facebook.com/poets.live/
New series:
Run by Moe Seagar, this jazz-infused series invites authors in to perform and read. I do not have their info, but Moe can often be found at one of the open mikes to give you the low down.
Moving Paris, Paris:
PLAY readings in English or French at CITY 27, 27 cité industrielle, 75011 Paris, M° Voltaire (take rue Camille Desmoulins next to “Simply” store
and then the 1st left): Arrive at 19h10, doors close before the performed readings start at
19h30. This series functions like a workshop, asking for feedback on the play
after the event. They also are a place you can offer to have one of YOUR plays
performed. Look on their website if you want to propose one.
Dates this fall: 8 Oct Christopher Lord, La Situation Administrative (in
French) 22nd
Oct.Keith Crawford "Space Station Zeta" (in English), 5th
Nov. Anni Walsh "Distant Shores" (in English)
19th Nov. Hilary Kaiser title tba (in
English) 3rd Dec. Ken Mackenzie "Was Abraham
Bluffing?" (in English) http://www.stefcampion.com/Movpart/MPfuture.html
The Writers’ Group
Free, open
workshop run by Spoken Word, Paris. 6.30pm-8.30pm every Sunday at Shakespeare & Company, 37
rue de la Bûcherie, 75005. Free.
Bookstores which host events
(get on their mailings for schedules):
Shakespeare & Co:
37 Rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris https://shakespeareandcompany.com/ go to site and « sign up for
newsletter » to get updates on events, as the site is not always up to
date. They also host free or 5e or so “workshops” on site which you can drop in
to try out.
Berkeley Books of Paris:
8 rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris M° Odéon. Does
not update the site often, but see their FB page and they will soon have an
events schedule up there and with the Academy of American Poetry which is
hosting a series of events this fall. I will read for them on the 3rd
of Dec if you are interested. http://berkeleybooksofparis.org/index.html
WH Smiths
248 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris https://whsmith.fr/ sometimes host events (they suggest
you follow their FB or twitter page for events, not the site)
Violette & Co
(French, hosts Women Writers
events) 102
rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny: www.violetteandco.com/
Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles,
127-129,
rue Saint-Martin 75004 Paris 01 53 01 96 96 (Belgian French, hosts readings and
dialogues with authors) http://www.cwb.fr/programme/filtre/lettres
Libraries and Cultural Centers
with events, see their online calendars:
American Library in Paris
10 Rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris (often has 2-3 author events, some workshops
and events for kids, too, if you are writing for children or young audiences as
well): https://americanlibraryinparis.org/
The Irish Cultural Center
5 Rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, Author/book, film and art events: you are often
asked to pre-reserve. http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/agenda/
The Canadian Cultural Center in
Paris
5 Rue de Constantine, 75007 Paris, Events:
cinema, literature, other: http://www.canada-culture.org/programmation-au-centre_program-in-center-en.html
3 Specific OCTOBER events I want to draw your
attention to :
FESTIVAL JEUNES ÉCRIVAINS
With readings and expos in English &
French : (France, Grande-Bretagne, USA…) 14 et 15 octobre 2017 Double Change, la galerie éof et la Poetry
Foundation vous invitent les à la première édition du et à l’exposition
« Objets poétiques » avec Fatimah Asghar, Nicolas Attal, Sumita Chakraborty, Cortney Lamar
Charleston, Valérian Guillaume, Roy G. Guzmán , Anna Mezey, Caroline Parfait, Samuel Poisson, Lucie Rico, Karen Sandhu, Woosung Sohn, Anne-Lise Solani, Alexandra Sollogoub, Stéphanie Vivier, Emily Jungmin Yoon , Guillaume Wavelet. Le festival est accompagné de
l’exposition « Objets poétiques » (livres, projections,
affiches, films…), constituée par les étudiants de l’atelier « Objets
poétiques » (2016-2017) du master de création littéraire de Paris 8 et
avec le concours de la Poetry Foundation. Gallery
opens at 17h les deux jours du festival. Readings start at : samedi 14 octobre à 19h et dimanche 15 octobre à 18h AT : Galerie éof, 15 rue Saint Fiacre 75002 Paris (Métros Grands boulevards)
IVY WRITERS PARIS
Laura Mullen and Vincent Broqua reading, the 17th Oct 2017 at
19h30. Meet at the bar at Delaville Café for a drink from 19h on, then the
reading happens and after lots of us stay for dinner. It is a great way to meet
authors as well as hear them. AT:
DELAVILLE CAFÉ, 34 bvd bonne nouvelle, M° Bonne Nouvelle, 75010 Paris.
BIOS for the authors: Poet
Laura Mullen was born in Los Angeles in 1958. She earned her
BA at the University of California-Berkeley and MFA from the Iowa Writers’
Workshop. Her collections of poetry include Complicated
Grief (2015), Enduring Freedom (2012), Dark Archive (2011), Murmur (2007), Subject (2005), After I Was Dead (1999), The Tales of Horror (1999), and The Surface (1991), which was a
National Poetry Series selection. Known for writing book-length and hybrid
texts, Mullen’s work has been praised for its wild invention and play. Her
poems are included in anthologies such as American
Hybrid (2009), The
Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (2012), and I’ll Drown my Book: Conceptual Writing by Women
(2012), among others. The
composer Jason Eckardt’s setting of her poem “The Distance (This)” was released
as Undersong by Mode records in 2011. For
more see: http://www.lauramullen.biz/
or https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/laura-mullen
Vincent Broqua is Professeur
de littérature et arts nord-américains at the University of Paris 8. He has written articles on authors, musicians, and artists from the
early twentieth century until now (Samuel Beckett, Caroline Bergvall, Jen
Bervin, John Cage, Stacy Doris, Alice Notley, Gertrude Stein, Rosmarie Waldrop
…). His
poetry publications include Récupérer (Petits
Matins), recuperer.lu (le
site miroir de Récupérer), Même = Same (Contrat
maint), Given (roman pour s.) (Contrat
maint), A partir de rien :
esthétique, poétique et politique de l’infime (Michel
Houdiard). He is also a translator from English to French, for example of the
following volumes : Anne Waldman, Archives,
pour un monde menacé (Joca Seria), Thalia Field, L’amateur d’oiseau, côté jardin avec
Olivier Brossard et Abigail Lang (Presses du Réel), David Antin, Ce qu’être d’avant-garde veut dire avec
Olivier Brossard et Abigail Lang (Presses du Réel). He
is currently writing a book on minimal aesthetics and poetics and preparing a
future publication on how avant-garde poets and poets of the late twentieth and
early twenty-first century read Shakespeare and why that may matter. He is the
cofounder with Olivier Brossard of the reading series and webjournal Double Change. With Olivier Brossard
he runs the research programme Poets and Critics at Paris Est
2010–2013. Which is now housed
at Paris 7—see http://www.poetscritics.org/poets-and-critics-program/
for information on that. With
Jean-Jacques Poucel, coedited an issue of Formes
Poétiques Contemporaines on creative criticism.
IRISH POETRY FILMS TALK:
20 Oct 2017: The filmmaker Oonagh Kearney http://www.oonaghkearney.com will talk about the poems she has filmed and
her collaboration with the poet Doireann
Ní Ghríofa http://doireannnighriofa.com L’Atelier POEM (EA Prismes), en
collaboration avec Pôle Irlande et le Centre Culturel Irlandais, a le
plaisir de vous inviter à sa première séance de l’année le 20 octobre
prochain à 17h30, (Salle à préciser) l’Institut du Monde
Anglophone, 5 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris Marc Porée & Clíona Ní
Ríordáin INFO : cliona.ni-riordain@univ-paris3.fr You are also cordially
invited to check into other events by this group at : They can follow the news of the
atelier (and get the dates,times, etc.) on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/atelierPOEM/
