31 March 2014

APRIL SHOWERS bring more literary events plus CALLS FOR WORK and workshops to PARIS, France!

READINGS LISTING FOR APRIL 2014 in PARIS plus calls for work and LOTS of writing workshops!

PART I: READINGS AND ART EVENTS listed by date in April 2014

PART II: WRITING WORKSHOPS IN PARIS and sign up info for June and July 2014 workshops in Paris

PART III: CALLS FOR WORK, NEW BOOKS and REVIEWS: where to send YOUR work!

Part I: April 2014 listing of events by date:

1 avril / 12h00 - . Hélène Iratchet et Pauline Klein "Socle" en partenariat avec le festival Hors limites et dans le cadre de « Concordan(s)e#8 » Concordan(s)e, un pari original, des créations de duos inatendus. Chorégraphes et écrivains, qui ne se connaissent pas au départ, se retrouvent sur scène pour nous dévoiler une chorégraphie et un texte inédits. information sur www.concordanse.com Pour plus d ‘infos sur Concordanse, vous pouvez aussi contacter Jean François Munnier, directeur festival concordan(s)e. Email jeff.munnier@free.fr Tonight’s show is at : Université Paris 13, La chaufferie . Villetaneuse

2 avril / 16h00 - . Fanny de Chaillé et Pierre Alferi "Répète" en partenariat avec le festival Hors limites et dans le cadre de « Concordan(s)e#8 » Concordan(s)e, un pari original, des créations de duos inatendus. Chorégraphes et écrivains, qui ne se connaissent pas au départ, se retrouvent sur scène pour nous dévoiler une chorégraphie et un texte inédits. information sur www.concordanse.com Pour plus d ‘infos sur Concordanse, vous pouvez aussi contacter Jean François Munnier, directeur festival concordan(s)e. Email jeff.munnier@free.fr Tonight’s show is at : Bibliothèque André Malraux . Les Lilas

3 April @20h - Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring WINONA LIN Last heard at the PLU Poetry and Jazz night, it is a honour to welcome back our guest for this week, Winona Linn. Winona is a Canadian poet, performer, teacher and spoken word artist. Linn was the 2011 poet laureate of the Federal Green Party of Canada, and wrote and performed poems on a variety of issues for the duration of the 2011 federal election. In the spring of 2013, a collection of Linn’s poems was published by Paisley Press out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. This collection, entitled “Stand Tall,” was a collaboration with visual artist Sidney Robichaud and are available for sale across Canada. Currently, Winona Linn lives in Paris, France where she teaches English-language poetry to children. See her perform here. at Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. Details at http://parislitup.com/event/plu-open-mic-featuring-winona-linn/

3 avril / 19h30 - . Fanny de Chaillé et Pierre Alferi "Répète" dans le cadre de « Concordan(s)e#8 » Concordan(s)e, un pari original, des créations de duos inatendus. Chorégraphes et écrivains, qui ne se connaissent pas au départ, se retrouvent sur scène pour nous dévoiler une chorégraphie et un texte inédits. information sur www.concordanse.com Pour plus d ‘infos sur Concordanse, vous pouvez aussi contacter Jean François Munnier, directeur festival concordan(s)e. Email jeff.munnier@free.fr Tonight’s show is at : La maison rouge . Paris

4 avril à 17h : Dans le cadre de l'atelier transversal POEM (PRISMES EA 4398), nous aurons
le plaisir d'accueillir Jacques Darras pour une communication intitulée : "Blake inouï" AT : en salle 12 de l'Institut du Monde Anglophone, 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, Paris

4 avril à partir de 19h : A l'occasion de la parution de Littoral 12 (Flammarion) La librairie Michèle Ignazi a le plaisir de vous inviter à une rencontre avec Anne CalasAT : La Librairie Michèle Ignazi 17, rue de Jouy 75004 Paris 01 42 71 17 00 métro : Saint-Paul ou Pont-Marie

4th April 4:30pm CONCERT Join us in the library for beautiful music amid the books…“Lily's a real talent. The voice sticks out…and those lyrics are ambitious and evocative.” – Dave Ruby Howe, Triple J Unearthed Radio review. Lily Louise is a singer/songwriter from the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. Drawing inspiration from artists ranging from Joni Mitchell to Jake Bugg, Lily delivers catchy, often haunting melodies and deceptively simple philosophies by way of her whimsical voice and guitar. Her debut album 'Falling and the Leaves that Followed', recorded and released in late 2011 when she was just 15, was named number 1 on the Top Ten EPs of 2011 by online independent music magazine Tomatrax. She has supported Australian greats such as Deborah Conway and Pete Murray, is a Talent Development Project Graduate, has gained airplay on Australian radio stations and has 5-star reviews on Triple J Unearthed Independent music charts. Get ready for “breath-takingly beautiful indie folk”! AT: Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

5 April 10h-19h: ANNUAL BOOK SALE AT THE AMERICAN LIBRARY of PARIS: Support the Library and pick up some new books for yourself and the bookworms in your life.AT: American Library in Paris, 10 rue du General Camou, 75007 Paris For more info: http://americanlibraryinparis.org/

5 avril à 20h30 Spectacle : LA GERMINATION SOUTERRAINE DES SOUFFLES (Ainsi des bribes, opus 3) Textes : Jacques DARRAS, Homère, Dante ; Voix Frédérique WOLF-MICHAUX ; Electro-acoustique Jean-Marc FOUSSAT. SUMMARY : Le principe de la collection Ainsi des Bribes est de proposer à des poètes contemporains de choisir deux poètes disparus. La comédienne-chanteuse et le musicien choisissent des textes des trois auteurs et créent un espace poétique et musical où ces oeuvres s’interpellent et résonnent en dialogue. Après Claude Ber, Sylvia Plath et Paul Celan, premier Opus, avec le pianiste et compositeur Stéphane Leach, puis Sophie Loizeau, Marina Tsvétaïeva et Stéphane Mallarmé, Opus 2, avec le flûtiste Jérôme Bourdellon, cette soirée présente des textes de Jacques Darras, le Chant XI de l’Odyssée d’Homère et des extraits des chant 1, 2, 27, 28, 30, 31 du Paradis de Dante avec à la voix parlée et chantée Frédérique Wolf-Michaux et à l'électro-acoustique Jean-Marc Foussat. AT : Maison de la Poésie de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, 10 Place Pierre Bérégovoy, 78280 Guyancourt- RÉSERVATION: 01 39 30 08 90

5 avril à 18h30 Rencontre avec des membres du groupe La Barbe pour la parution de La Barbe. Cinq ans d’activisme féministe (iXe) “Au patriarcat, les grands hommes reconnaissants !” — “Bravo Messieurs !” —”Femmes savantes, femmes barbantes !” Sous cette forme d’interpellation ironique et décalée, des militantes d’un autre genre, chœur de citoyennes affublées de barbes postiches, investissent depuis 2008 les lieux de pouvoir. Le but est clair : ridiculiser, en le rendant visible, l’entre-soi masculin qui s’y perpétue. Ce livre rassemble l’ensemble de leurs actions – textes et images joliment mises en page – appuyées par des réactions et des chiffres éloquents. Né en France, le groupe a essaimé jusqu’au Mexique et en Australie ! http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/spip.php?article692 AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne - 75011 Paris, Tél. : 01 43 72 16 07, See thier blog : http://10ans-violette.over-blog.com/

5 avril / 18h30 - . Hélène Iratchet et Pauline Klein "Socle" dans le cadre de la journée de l'édition en danse et dans le cadre de « Concordan(s)e#8 » Concordan(s)e, un pari original, des créations de duos inatendus. Chorégraphes et écrivains, qui ne se connaissent pas au départ, se retrouvent sur scène pour nous dévoiler une chorégraphie et un texte inédits. information sur www.concordanse.com Pour plus d ‘infos sur Concordanse, vous pouvez aussi contacter Jean François Munnier, directeur festival concordan(s)e. Email jeff.munnier@free.fr Tonight’s show is at : La Briqueterie / CDC du val-de-Marne . Vitry-sur-Seine

6^th April 13h-19h: ANNUAL BOOK SALE day 2 AT THE AMERICAN LIBRARY of PARIS: Support the Library and pick up some new books for yourself and the bookworms in your life.AT: American Library in Paris, 10 rue du General Camou, 75007 Paris For more info: http://americanlibraryinparis.org/

6 avril / 15h00 - . Fanny de Chaillé et Pierre Alferi "Répète" dans le cadre de « Concordan(s)e#8 » Concordan(s)e, un pari original, des créations de duos inatendus. Chorégraphes et écrivains, qui ne se connaissent pas au départ, se retrouvent sur scène pour nous dévoiler une chorégraphie et un texte inédits. information sur www.concordanse.com Pour plus d ‘infos sur Concordanse, vous pouvez aussi contacter Jean François Munnier, directeur festival concordan(s)e. Email jeff.munnier@free.fr Tonight’s show is at : Cneai . Chatou

7^th April at 19h00—IVY WRITERS PARIS is back with a bilingual reading starring visiting NYC author Elena Rivera and French poet, translator and cinéaste Stéphane Bouquet. Rivera is the translator for Bernard Noël, and Bouquet translates into French from both Italian and English, thus it will be a real treat to speak with these authors about their writing and translation work in a QandA session following the reading of their own poetry. Meet for drinks at bar around 19h15 then we will all head upstairs for the reading. Feel free to stay for dinner after in this gorgeous café-restaurant! For more info see our website http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr or keep up with us by joining our FB group. AT : Delaville Café (upstairs in the "Salon Margery"), 34, Boulevard Bonne nouvelle, 75010 PARIS.

7 April 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/

8 April at 7:30 p.m. POETS LIVE An evening of poetry and dance with Marion McCready, Afric McGlinchey and Romual Kaboré Drinks upstairs at the bar from whenever you like, poetry starts downstairs at 19:30.BIOS: Marion McCready lives in Argyll, Scotland. Her poetry pamphlet collection, Vintage Sea, was published by Calder Wood Press (2011). She won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013 and won the Melita Hume Poetry Prize (2013). Her first full – length collection, Tree Language, will be published in the Spring 2014 by Eyewear Publishing. Her website can be found here -http://sorlil.wix.com/mmccready and she blogs here - http://sorlily.blogspot.co.uk/ Afric McGlinchey’s début collection, The lucky star of hidden things, based partly on her upbringing in Zimbabwe, was published in 2012 by Salmon. Published translations of her work have appeared in Irish, Spanish and Italian. She has been invited to read and give talks at festivals in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe and Italy as well as Ireland. A Pushcart nominee, Afric received the Hennessy Emerging Poetry Award for 2010 and the Northern Liberties Poetry Award for 2012 and was placed and commended in a number of other competitions. Afric lives in West Cork, Ireland. http://www.africmcglinchey.com/ Romual Kaboré was born in Burkina Faso in 1989 and studied dance at CDC la Termitière in Ouagadougou. Since 2012 he has been a member of La Compagnie Herman Diephuis, performing in “Objet principal du voyage.” In 2013 be began a collaboration with Oliver Tarpaga and Bernice Lee, called “Let Me Be” and is working on “Encore et corps” with Boukson Séré and Sergio Argiolas. He was awarded a Ville de Paris/Institut Français international residency in 2014 and is presently working on the choreography of his first piece, “Romual sans D.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO_D1haLEd8 http://romualkabore.blogspot.fr/p/biographie.html at Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Métros: Tuileries or Concorde. Next POETS LIVE reading will be May 13, http://poets-live.com

9th April 3:00pm Children’s Hour – music, rhythm, and stories for kids. 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. Due to space restrictions, we ask that you try and email Kate at katestables@gmail.com to confirm your place, and also that each child is accompanied by only one adult where possible. Thanks, all! AT: Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

9 April at 19h: An evening with David Lebovitz. David Lebovitz presents his latest book My Paris Kitchen, which features over 100 of his favorite recipes that he makes in his kitchen in Paris. AT: American Library in Paris, 10 rue du General Camou, 75007 Paris For more info: http://americanlibraryinparis.org/

9 avril à 19h DANS LE CADRE DES DIX ANS DE VIOLETTE AND CO Table-ronde “Transgression et littérature” préparée et animée par Anne Delabre, journaliste, auteure de Le cinéma français et l’homosexualité en collaboration avec Didier Roth-Bettoni (Danger public, 2009) avec les participents : Chloé Delaume, romancière, performeuse, éditrice. Claudine Galea, dramaturge, romancière pour la jeunesse et pour adultes. Sylvie Gracia, romancière et éditrice au Rouergue (La Brune et collection jeunesse). Caroline Lamarche, romancière, poétesse et dramaturge Anne Larue, chercheuse, romancière, professeure de littérature comparée à l’université Paris 13 Yves Pagès, romancier, éditeur, directeur des Éditions Verticales. Emmanuel Pierrat, avocat au barreau de Paris, spécialisé dans le droit de l’édition, auteur, éditeur, traducteur.À l’heure où les tabous sur la sexualité, l’intime ou la mort semblent dépassés, comment la fiction française contemporaine peut-elle encore questionner l’ordre établi et s’affranchir de la norme ? Soixante après la censure exercée sur les écrits de Violette Leduc et à l’heure où les polémiques sur certains ouvrages destinés à la jeunesse se multiplient, que recouvre aujourd’hui la notion de transgression en littérature ? A partir d’échanges avec des auteur(e)s, éditeurs, avocat spécialisé, nous dresserons un état des lieux de la situation actuelle en France concernant cette question. AT : la mairie du XIème, place Léon Blum

10 avril – 19h00-20h00 Les Jeudis de l’Oulipo : soirée thèmatique « Genoux ». Rendez-vous réguliers, les jeudis de l'Oulipo, chers aux amateurs de jeux de l'esprit et de littérature potentielle, continuent d'explorer des thèmes d'actualité, proposant lectures et créations originales. AT : Le BNF site François-Mitterrand – Grand auditorium, Quai François-Mauriac - Paris 13^e

10 avril : Jean Max Colard et gérard Macé are the invited readers for Jérôme Mauche’s series Poésie Plat-forme at La Fondation Entreprise Richard. For complete info, see : http://www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com/Conferences/8-poesie-plate-forme

10 April @20h - Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring FLORA DONAHUE-HIBBERD Our guest this week is terrific singer-songwriter Flora Donahue-Hibberd. Currently living in Paris, Flora Hibberd is was born in 1995 in East London. We are thrilled to welcome her to the stage for an extended at Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix,75020. Details at http://parislitup.com/event/plu-open-mic-featuring-flora-donahue-hibberd/

10th April 6:00pm Throughout 2014, in honour of the 450^th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, we’re hosting the Bard-en-Seine Readings for participants. 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 newsletter (see below for February’s reading of Romeo and Juliet), so you’ll all be able to share in the theatrical fun. For April, the play will be King Lear and the reading will take place on Thursday 10th 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. AT: Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

11 AVRIL, 20H. 1hr long show : Soirée for the new online lit review NUMERO ZERO : performance {comment c’est, un livre claro (texte) + Olivier Mellano (guitare) + Bruno Blairet (voix) commencer ::: un livre} « Tu commences un livre. C’est une façon de parler, mais attention, ce n’est pas encore une manière d’écrire. Tu as commencé un livre. Tu es sur le seuil et tu ne vois rien, sinon du papier, du papier qui se dresse et ressemble à un mur, que tu te promets de traverser… » Comment commence un livre ? Dans le bruit et la fureur ? Dans un crépitement à peine audible ? Qui commence le livre ? Autant de questions auxquelles s’efforceront de répondre (ou pas) l’écrivain Claro, le musicien Olivier Mellano et le comédien Bruno Blairet. L’un lit, l’autre parle, le troisième joue: nul secret de fabrication, aucune recette, juste la mise en orbite d’éclats épars qui se forgent une nécessité. NUMÉRO ZÉRO est une revue expérimentale à ciel ouvert qui s’intéresse à l’écriture comme processus de travail, en amont de sa formalisation définitive et sous toutes ses formes. C’est un laboratoire de création qui invite des écrivains et des artistes à participer pendant un an à des rencontres publiques mensuelles, à un site internet, à une édition papier, et à prendre en charge une rubrique dans chacun de ces formats. Durée: 1h, La performance sera suivie d’une dégustation de vins en partenariat avec R2Vins. AT : LABORATOIRES D'AUBERVILLIERS (only 500 meters from Paris, so really not in the suburbs J ) 41, rue Lécuyer, 93300 Aubervilliers +33(0)1 53 56 15 90 METRO line 7 sortie Aubervilliers-Pintin 4 chemins. (take the sortie ave de la république, côté des numéros pairs) https://www.facebook.com/BALNUMEROZERO

12 avril à 15h : Lecture publique d’un choix de textes écrits pendant l’atelier d’écriture de Catherine Bédarida. CB, écrivain et journaliste (Le Monde, Mouvement), organise des ateliers d’écriture créative avec des institutions culturelles et associatives. See section II if you want to participate as a writing student in her workshop. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne - 75011 Paris, Tél. : 01 43 72 16 07, See thier blog : http://10ans-violette.over-blog.com/

13^th April at 7.30 pm The following reading of Anne Walsh’s "Benchmarks" & "On Angels' Wheels" (radioplay) has been organised by Moving Parts AT : Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Métros: Tuileries.

14th April 7:00pm As part of a series of events marking the centenary of the outbreak of WW1, we’re delighted to welcome John Baxter on his latest book, Paris at the End of the World. This is an unconventional book about the Great War. It concentrates on what happened behind the lines in Paris—the city's social life between1914 and 1918; the show business, crime, drugs, and the sex life of both soldiers and civilians. In particular, it draws attention to those millions of soldiers who never fired a shot. Among them was John Baxter's paternal grandfather, an astonished and sometimes scandalized stranger in a Europe nothing like his native Australia. “The most original and unexpectedly beguiling account of the Great War I have ever read. John Baxter is one of the master storytellers of our age [and] he has been able to re-create not only the all-to-familiar Hell of the trenches but also the Heaven of sex and food and hedonism that was Paris at the twilight of its golden age. A revelation, an adventure, a joy to read.” —Kevin Jackson, author of Constellation of Genius: 1922; Modernism Year One John Baxter has lived in Paris for more than twenty years. An acclaimed film biographer and critic, he is the author of four bestselling memoirs about life in France: The Perfect Meal, The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, Immovable Feast: A Paris Christmas, and We’ll Always have Paris. As part of a series of events marking the centenary of the outbreak of WW1, we’re delighted to welcome John Baxter on his latest book, Paris at the End of the World.This is an unconventional book about the Great War. It concentrates on what happened behind the lines in Paris—the city's social life between1914 and 1918; the show business, crime, drugs, and the sex life of both soldiers and civilians. In particular, it draws attention to those millions of soldiers who never fired a shot. Among them was John Baxter's paternal grandfather, an astonished and sometimes scandalized stranger in a Europe nothing like his native Australia. AT: Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

14 April 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/

16 avril à 19h Vernissage de l’exposition de ADAM.M “We are from a good family” Cette exposition est la mise en lumière de la création d’une entité familiale inédite qui s’est développée dans l’œil de la photographe au fil de sa mutation personnelle. C’est l’histoire d’une femme qui interroge son identité de genre au travers de sa rencontre amoureuse, et qui donne naissance à une descendance libre, multiple, passionnée, en questionnement. Une descendance qui crée à son tour sa propre famille, élargissant le cercle des sentiments et des possibles... Représentation d’une famille aussi réelle que fantasmée. (exposition du 16 avril au 11 mai) http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/spip.php?article694 AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne - 75011 Paris, Tél. : 01 43 72 16 07, See thier blog : http://10ans-violette.over-blog.com/

17th April 7:00pm This April Shakespeare and Co is excited to be launching a new reading and discussion series called The Art of Criticism, hosted by the critic and writer Lauren Elkin. These events will feature working literary critics sharing their philosophies, methods, and complaints, and to further the conversation about what criticism is and what it is for. For our first event we welcome Lila Azam Zanganeh, whose fearless, triumphant first book, The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness, shreds the straitjacket of conventional literary criticism, tackling the subject of happiness in the celebrated author's work from an array of different angles - literary commentary, biography, memoir, glossary, even an invented interview between herself and Nabokov. Lila Azam Zanganeh was born in Paris to Iranian parents. After studying literature and philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she moved to the United States to teach literature, cinema, and Romance languages at Harvard University. In 2002, she began contributing literary articles, interviews, and essays to a host of American and European publications, among which The New York Times, The Paris Review, Le Monde, and La Repubblica. She was the recipient of the 2011 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, awarded each year by the Center for Fiction. She writes and lives in New York City. AT: Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

17 April @20h - Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring JAMES LOKS Making a very rare appearance on any stage anywhere, but gracing ours this week is James Loks, who lives with his fiancé in Paris. He is a staff writer at ArtSlant and his poetry and prose have appeared in Uncommon guide books, PLU, Issue Zero, La Bastille, Navigator, New York V.2, and CORE, to name the most recent. He has had one very small book published called “l’enregistrement”.” at Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix,75020. Details at http://parislitup.com/event/plu-open-mic-featuring-james-loks/

19 avril à 20H30 Thomas Delclaud en concert avec l'association "Piano à Coeur" avec la violoniste Italienne Giulia Buccarella (de l’association Stainer) qui aura lieu au temple du Luxembourg, 58, rue madame, 75006 Paris M 4 Saint-Sulpice ou RER B Luxembourg

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21 April 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/

23 avril à 19h Rencontre avec ELIANE VIENNOT pour la parution de son livre Non, le masculin ne l’emporte pas sur le féminin ! Utilisant de nombreux exemples, l’historienne E. Viennot fait le récit du long effort des grammairiens pour masculiniser la langue française et les vive résistances qu’il a suscité. La domination du genre masculin sur le genre féminin initiée au XVIIè siècle ne s’est en effet imposé qu’à la fin du XIXè siècle avec l’instruction obligatoire. Depuis, des générations d’écolières et d’écoliers répètent inlassablement que “le masculin l’emporte sur le féminin”, se préparant ainsi à occuper des places différentes et hiérarchisées dans la société. Un essai instructif et salutaire ! AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne - 75011 Paris, Tél. : 01 43 72 16 07, See thier blog : http://10ans-violette.over-blog.com/

24th April 7:00pm What should Lolita look like? Why did Dmitri Nabokov, the writer’s only child and sole surviving heir, contravene his father’s wishes that the last unfinished novel, The Original of Laura, be destroyed? Join the conversation on Nabokov’s legacy with participants Yuri Leving (Editor of the Nabokov Online Journal), Lara Delage-Toriel (President of the French Vladimir Nabokov Society), and Samuel Schuman (Past President of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, the author of Nabokov’s Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2014)), during the European book launch of Lolita – The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design. Eds. John Bertram and Yuri Leving (New York: Print, 2013), and Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov’s Last Novel, The Original of Laura. Ed. Yuri Leving (McGill Queens University Press, 2013). The winner of the 2013 Nabokov Online Journal Best Book Award will be announced during this event. Promotional video: http://www.nabokovonline.com/news.html AT: Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

24 April@20h - Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring DAVID B. GOLDSTEIN. David B. Goldstein‘s poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies throughout North America, including The Paris Review, The Malahat Review, filling Station, CV2, Epoch, Harp & Altar, Jubilat, 6×6, and Octopus. His first chapbook, Been Raw Diction, was published by Dusie Press in 2006. As a literary critic, food writer, and translator, he has published on a wide range of subjects, including Shakespeare, contemporary poetry, translation, cannibalism, philosophies of food, and the politics of Martha Stewart. His first book of criticism, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England, is due out this fall. His translations from Italian poetry appear in The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, among other publications. Goldstein lives with his family in Toronto, Ontario where he is Associate Professor of English at York University. Laws of Rest is his first book of poetry. at Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix,75020. Details at http://parislitup.com/event/plu-open-mic-featuring-david-goldstein/

25 avril à 19h Rencontre avec CHANTAL AKERMAN pour la parution de Chantal Akerman, cinéaste de notre temps (Magic Cinéma) et autour de son récit Ma mère rit (Mercure de France) Le Magic Cinéma propose une rétrospective de la cinéaste belge Chantal Akerman en sa présence (voir “Partenariat” à la fin de cette newsletter). A cette occasion, elle viendra à Violette and Co parler du livre qui retrace sa carrière, et de son roman autobiographique Ma mère rit (Mercure de France) paru à l’automne dernier. Cinéaste exigeante qui a créé une œuvre “engagée, méditative et intensément personnelle” depuis 1968, C. Akerman a aussi embrassé d’autres arts dont la littérature. Ma mère rit est l’autoportrait écrit à vif dans la brûlure et l’intensité du quotidien ; il retrace en parallèle la fin de sa relation avec son amante de New York et le rapport avec sa mère malade en Belgique. C’est une magnifique plongée dans le cœur, le rire, les joies et les blessures de Chantal Akerman. Lecture par l’auteure. http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/spip.php?article698 AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne - 75011 Paris, Tél. : 01 43 72 16 07, See thier blog : http://10ans-violette.over-blog.com/

27^th April at 7.30 pm The following reading of David Coburn and Nathan Rippy’s "Entre Deux Mondes" (screenplay) has been organised by Moving Parts AT : Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Métros: Tuileries.

28 April 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/

30th April 7:00pm Join us in the library for an evening of theatrical playreading entertainment…What connects a group of frustrated underground activists, a team of screenwriters searching for inspiration for a TV series, and an unseen government fighting a threat to their national security? One name: George Kaplan. This play in three movements spans politics, myth, and conspiracy theory as it examines the influence of Hollywood on our global geopolitics and how Hitchcock might have been implicated in an international plot. It touches on digital warfare and the manipulation of the common consciousness, the role of coffee (and beer) in meetings, and a chicken that may have the power to save the human race. George Kaplan is a thrilling comedy by prize-winning French writer Frédéric Sonntag, translated into English by Vanessa Ackerman and Stephanie Street thanks to a grant by the Société Beaumarchais and with support from HighTide Festival. AT: Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

PART II : WRITING WORKSHOPS IN PARIS in APRIL plus REGISTRATION INFO for Paris’ 2 BIG SUMMER 2014 WRITING WORKSHOPS:

SATURDAYS at 16h : Paris Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop (5, 12, 19 and 26 April) at Cafe Apparemment , 18 Rue des Coutures Saint-Gervais, 75003, Details at http://parislitup.com/event/plu-drop-in-writing-workshop-16/

SATURDAYS at 12pm The Other Writers’ Group New time!! 12pm-2pm every Saturday (5, 12, 18 and 25 April) at Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005. This is a drop-in feedback workshop running almost every Saturday since February 2005 at Shakespeare & Company. It’s also the heart of the SpokenWord Paris scene, where a lot of the writers at SpokenWord get together and workshop their poems, stories and novels. Run by me, David Barnes (the founder) and Bruce Sherfield. Every Saturday 12pm-2pm Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Métro St Michel Charge for participating 6 euros Bring 10 copies of anything you want feedback on. Up to 3 or 4 pages of prose, or 1 or 2 poems. (Cheap photocopies can be done nearby at Mistral Photo, 40 bis rue St Jacques.) For more info: http://spokenwordparis.org/the-other-writers-group/

SUNDAY 6 April @12h30 - Paris Lit Up Writing Workshop with Annie Brechin as guest host - theme - TAKING A WORD FOR A WALK at Shakespeare and Company, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005. Details at http://parislitup.com/event/plu-writing-workshop-2/

12 avril : atelier de 11h à 13h. Lecture à 15h : Dernier atelier d’écriture de la saison animé par CATHERINE BÉDARIDA suivi par une Lecture publique d’un choix de textes écrits pendant l’atelier Catherine Bédarida, écrivain et journaliste (Le Monde, Mouvement) organise des ateliers d’écriture créative avec des institutions culturelles et associatives. L’atelier à Violette and Co, qui reprend pour une nouvelle saison, offre un lieu solidaire pour écrire en toute liberté quelque soit son expérience. En partant de thèmes variés et de pistes de réflexion en lien avec les questions de genre, de minorités sexuelles et adossés à l’expérience littéraire féministe, l’atelier permet d’explorer et d’inventer ses propres mots. Horaires : un samedi sur deux, de 11h à 13h. L’inscription ponctuelle en cours d’année est possible. Tarif : 20 € par atelier. Renseignements et inscriptions : catherine.bedarida@leboutdelalangue.com

AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne - 75011 Paris, Tél. : 01 43 72 16 07, blog : http://10ans-violette.over-blog.com/

MAY WORKSHOP : WRITING FOOD (sign up NOW !) May 5, 12, 19, 26 with Seb Emina, author of The Breakfast Bible (Bloomsbury) and editor of The London Review of Breakfasts. Course Description: For writers of all levels. Eating and drinking is something we all have in common, which is why it’s so difficult to write about it well. Yet food comprises some of the most wonderful scenes in literature, from Proust’s madeleines to Camus’s black pudding, while the finest writing in many a newspaper is found in its restaurant review section. In this four-part course you’ll explore the secrets of great food writing in both its fictional and non-fictional settings, and produce several short pieces of your own. You’ll look at how to make food and drink on the page speak to all the senses, without forgetting about the wider story that a meal can so deftly tell. This course will be helpful to both those looking to get started in food writing, as well as those who want to enhance their fiction.Instructor: Seb Emina is author of The Breakfast Bible (Bloomsbury) and editor of The London Review of Breakfasts. His writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines and books internationally, including the Financial Times, the Guardian, Esquire and the Gentlewoman. The Breakfast Bible was one of the Guardian’s food books of 2013 and has been featured in the New York Times, BBC Breakfast, the Times Literary Supplement, KCRW/NPR’s Good Food show, the Observer Magazine and many others. Recent speaking appearances include Shakespeare & Company and the Cheltenham Literature Festival. He is currently based in Paris. Full info and to register on WICE site at : http://www.wice-paris.org/coursesbydate?eventId=804547&EventViewMode=EventDetails NOTE: YOU MUST pre-register! AT: WICE 10 rue Tiphaine 75015 Paris; Métro: La Motte-Picquet-Grenelle (Course WY051 - €125.00)

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION (by 30 April) = GREAT PRICE for the JUNE 23-28 PWW with WICE: http://pariswritersworkshop.org/ Master class courses will be taught by distinguished authors in novel (full), non-fiction, short story and screenwriting.** The PWW program will include stimulating panels on literary trends and readings with faculty.• Fine-tune your writing with our award winning faculty • Work in an intensive and friendly environment • Receive step-by-step information on how to get published • Meet literary agents. PWW welcomes new and established writers. * Please note that the event kicks-off Monday, June 23 in the early evening with a Welcome Reception and mandatory Registration. Classes begin Tuesday morning, June 24 and run through Saturday, June 28. ** Early Bird Deadline April 30, 2014!

Sign up now for JUNE SHORT STORY WORKSHOP with Nahid Rachlin. This Writing WORKSHOP is part of the above listed 2014 Paris Writer’s Workshop with WICE in PARIS, FRANCE being housed at the American University in Paris June 23-28: Nahid Rachlin: website: http://www.nahidrachlin.com Teaching Short Story Writing (five days, three hours each session, half an hour private consultation with each student.) For more details click on Workshop registration-Nahid Rachlin. ***Early bird rate is available-scholarship will be available soon. For more, see the conference website: http://pariswritersworkshop.org/ For further questions, telephone: from inside France 01 45 66 75 50 or outside of France +33 1 45 66 75 50 Email general Inquiries to: wice@wice-paris.org and PWW Inquiries to: pww@wice-paris.org

SIGN UP NOW FOR PARIS’ JULY SUMMER WORKSHOPS At the AUP Summer Creative Writing Institute! from July 2 to July 23 with two workshops: Writing Fiction and Crafting Personal Narrative. Here is the link: http://www.aup.edu/academics/summer/three-week-summer-session/literature-creative-writing This is the 3rd edition of the Summer Creative Writing Institute at the American University of Paris. With two workshop choices as well as weekly readings by internationally recognized authors, combined classes for guest speakers and Paris literary field trips, and, always one of the best parts, a final student reading and party. Summers are packed with literary events at Shakespeare & Co, Spoken Word, and other venues. The Summer Creative Writing Institute faculty has decades of experience in teaching writing at excellent institutions and the American University of Paris is the home for the prestigious Center for Writers & Translators, a Master of Arts in Cultural Translation, and a large Department of Comparative Literature, offering a major in Literature and the Creative Arts and a minor in Creative Writing. Soon opening an MFA program. Please contact Jeffrey Greene with any questions.

Part III: NEWS REVIEWS AND REVIEWS NEWS—CALLS FOR WORK, announcements about new publications and more!

GET A WICE SCHOLARSHIP FOR the JUNE 2014 Paris Writers’ WORKSHOP: For the 2014 Paris Writers’ Workshop Awards, WICE is pleased to announce the funding of two half-tuition scholarships: one for The Art of Non-Fiction Writing and one for The Essentials of Screenplay Writing.To be considered for a scholarship, registrants should submit no more than 10 pages of prose or screenplay writing in accordance with the Manuscript Submission Guidelines. Submissions must be emailed to WICE no later than May 31, 2014.

YOU HAVE AN ART PROJECT? LE 104 is considering residents: so SUBMIT The CENTQUATRE is a partner of the INRAP project, (the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research), which aims to explore and strengthen the relationships between European citizens with archeology, particularly through art projects. CENTQUATRE invites artists of all disciplines who are interested in the link between art and archeology, to apply for a residency in its building. One of the artist residencies themes is the materiality of the invisible: The starting point is the idea that all that is visible expresses what is invisible: be it a photograph, a house, a fragment, a day in my life, an artwork, a car in the street. And, similarly, all that is material stresses its immateriality: be it a ruin, a beam of light, a polished surface, a movie, a church. This is the tension of the materiality of the invisible and of the working processes of artists and archaeologists.what will be offered Artists whose projects will be selected will be offered:- a space for artistic residence in a surface area related to the project - a duration of residence depending on the project - a budget including artistic fees, means of production, possibly travel to places of excavation and / or work with a NEARCH partner - technical assistance within a limit and equipment depending on availability for the production of the final work - an on-site accommodation possibility in individual cases and priority for artists from abroad - the presentation of the works in September 2015 at CENTQUATRE and June 2016 at the JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMY (Maastricht, Netherlands). Deadline: APPLICATION DEADLINE : April 30^th 2014, midnight (please note that their website says March 3àth but in fact it is APRIL) http://www.104.fr/centquatre/projets/accueil_artistique/nearch/nearch-en.html

SEND RADIO PLAYS to: The Parislab, which is a monthly radio show broadcast on World Radio Paris, that performs and records radio dramas and spoken word tales live with professional actors, in front of a Paris audience. We see scripts and narrative tales for upcoming episodes. Here are some upcoming/suggested topics : Strong women. The one that got away. Can we go back home? Facing fears. Insomnia . Strong Women. Failure. Sex and Chocolate. For guidelines and to submit scripts email theparislab AT gmail.com

OUT NOW : Cyrille Martinez’s book « Musique rapide et lente » aux éditions Buchet-Chastel dans la collection Qui vive.

GREAT NEWS! The winner of the 2014 Frost Place Chapbook Contest Sponsored by Bull City Press is The Greenhouse by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet of Oakland, California. In addition to The Greenhouse, selected by David Baker, the editors at Bull City Press have selected Beneath the Ice Fish Souls Look Alike by Emilia Phillips of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for publication. Visit the revamped http://bullcitypress.com for other books by Jill Osier, Anne Keefe, Katie Bowler, Michael McFee, and Ellen Bush, as well as an anthology of emerging writers edited by Matthew Olzmann and Ross White.

Félicitations! Le dernier livre-objet de Jacques Rebotier « 22, placards ! » réalisé par les éditions Aencrages & Co a reçu le Prix littéraires des lycéens et apprentis en Île-de-France au Salon du livre de Paris. Les huit livres lauréats seront disponibles dans le 471 lycées de la région Île-de-France. Une réédition de 22, placards ! est sous presse. Découvrir le palmarès complet 2014 sur : http://prixlitteraire.iledefrance.fr/fil-d-actu/palmares-20132014

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SEND POETRY! ACCENTS PUBLISHING 2014 Poetry Chapbook Contest. Two winners—1 selected by independent judge Patty Paine, and 1 by founding editor Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. $300 prize, publication of perfect-bound chapbook and 30 copies. All entries are considered for publication. Send manuscript plus $15 reading fee by April 30. www.accents-publishing.com.

SUBMIT genre-bending work NOW: We are now accepting submissions for Rivet: The Journal of Writing That Risks, the new online literary magazine from Red Bridge Press. Rivet seeks genre-bending work that takes risks with form, content, or both; revels in the unexpected; and rewards with imagination and insight. We welcome submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid pieces by established and emerging authors. Send us your most powerful, strange, and wonderful work! (And please spread the word by forwarding this announcement to your writer friends.)-- Liana Holmberg, Editor in Chief & Publisher Red Bridge Press
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Read Write Submit! CHECK IT OUT! The new Versal website is now live! After many years of prep and reflection, this site is FABULOUS! Check it out, sign up for the Versal Monthly newsletter on the "about" page, get info on the FEB 2014 event JOURNAL PORN taking place in Seattle, WA for AWP and prepare your own work for submission by subscribing and reading previous issues!!! http://www.versaljournal.org

GET YOUR COPY! The essay collection from the conference on American experimental poetry held at the University of Toulouse-Mirail which includes papers by American, British and French writers, has been published as a special bi-lingual issue of Anglophonia/Caliban entitled "Tailor-Made Traditions: The Poetics of US Experimental Verse, from H.D. to Michael Heller." More information is available at the website: http://w3.pum.univ-tlse2.fr/~no-35-Traditions-sur-mesure~.html

WICE and YOU in PARIS? Looking for writing activities in Paris? WICE has creative writing courses, a Lit Mag (called UPSTAIRS AT DUROC) art classes, walking tours and MORE. Check out what they are up to at http://www.wice-paris.org/creative-writing-literature For more on Upstairs at Duroc, see their site at: http://upstairsatduroc.org/

THAD RUTKOWSKI’s novel available on DISCOUNT: If you don’t already have Thad Rutkowski’s novel Tetched, the book is now available at a discount. The Kindle edition is available for $4.95 or less on the following sites: Amazon Kindle, Nook, Google Play, Kobo and Sony Reader Store. As well, the book will be featured on the e-book fan site eBookSoda.com on April 7. “Don’t let Tetched’s fits-and-starts fragments fool you. Rutkowski’s novel has the depth and complexity required to engage the reader utterly in a seamless, forward-moving narrative. … If the narrator is ‘touched,’ it’s because nobody touches him at all as a child.” —Chronogram magazine. For more onThad Rutkowski, see : www.thaddeusrutkowski.com

READ collect then SUBMIT poetry NEXT FALL: to Marthe Reed’s a chapbook press, including her own Philip Whalen's Tulip and Megan Burns' i always wanted to start over. The remainder of the 2014 spring run includes host by Lori Anderson Moseman and Nesting Instinct by Jesse Nissim. Next up will feature chapbooks by Maria Damon and Metta Sama. Marthe Reed publishes innovative writing by women (cis- trans, queer, straight, all any other more) and will post in autumn for an open reading period. Purchase or keep up on the press at: http://nous-zot.blogspot.com/

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2014-2015 GUEST BLOGGER was LOUISE COOPER

One of the newest editions to the Ivy Writers Paris team, Louise Cooper, has stepped up to the challenge of maintaining Paris’ monthly calendar of literary events and calls for work. Lou is a recent graduate of the Oakland University School of Music, Theatre and Dance in Detroit, MI where she pursued a BA in Theatre. She spent the last year backpacking through Europe and teaching in India before settling down in Paris. An au pair by day, in her spare time she hopes to explore written word as a new medium and delve into the artistic happenings here in Paris!