Literary Paris
Calendar February 2015
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
Monday 2 February @ 19h: Shakespeare and Company presents...Paris Launch of Music & Literature no. 5
To
mark the French release of its fifth issue, Music
& Literature Magazine is pleased to present an evening of live chamber
music, presentations, and readings celebrating the careers of Finnish composer
Kaija Saariaho, Norwegian writer Stig Sæterbakken, and Chinese author Can Xue.
This event features a musical program performed by Ms. Saariaho’s longtime
collaborator, flutist Camilla Hoitenga, and convenes several of the volume’s
contributors, includes conductors Susanna Mälkki and Clément Mao-Takacs; author
and actress Florence Delay; stage director Aleksi Barrière; editor and critic
Audun Lindholm. Daniel Medin, the co-editor of Music & Literature,
will moderate.
Recently acclaimed by
NPR as one of the bravest and most exciting literary
magazines to appear in recent years, Music & Literature is
devoted to publishing excellent literature on and by under-represented artists
from around the world.
Shakespeare and Co.
37 rue de la Bucherie
Monday 2 Februrary; 20h30; Spoken
Word Open Mic; Theme: ILLUSIONS/DELUSIONS (
those little white lies) Guest storyteller: Kathleen Ragan, editor of folk
tale anthologies ”Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sisters” and
”Outfoxing Fear”
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.
Wednesday 4
February @ 19h; Shakespeare and Company presents... Daniel Mendelsohn on An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and An
Epic ; We’re delighted
that Daniel Mendelsohn will be treating us to a reading from his upcoming book,
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and An Epic.
Daniel Mendelsohn, the
author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six
Million, is an award-winning writer, critic and translator. His essays,
reviews and articles appear in many publications, most frequently in The New
Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and the New York Times Book
Review, where he is a columnist for “Bookends.” Formerly the weekly book
critic for New York magazine, he is presently a Contributing Editor at Travel
+ Leisure. His books include Waiting for the Barbarians, How
Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken, and The Elusive Embrace.
Shakespeare and Co.
37 rue de la Bucherie
Wednesday 4
February @ 19h30; Evening with an
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates, discussing his book-in-progress; Visiting Fellow Ta-Nehisi
Coates, reads from and discusses his new book which will be released next
October. It is his attempt to talk to his teenage son about the killings of
Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Michael Brown. Ta-Nehisi
Coates is a national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he writes
about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of the memoir The
Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood. He
is the Library's Visiting Fellow for most of January and part of early
February. He lives in Harlem.
(10 euro suggested
donation)
American Library in Paris; 10
rue du Général Camou, 75007
Wednesday 4 February;
20h; Spoken
Word 2: Open Secret; Hosted by David Sirois; Bistrot
82, 82 rue des Martyrs, Montmartre. Metro Pigalle or Abbesses
Thursday 5 February @ 20h – 23h55
PLU Open Mic featuring Jane Ormerod
Every Thursday: if you would like to read, dance, sing or
otherwise express yourself, sign up is open and free to all starting at
8pm-ish. We go until we drop – which means all night long! In any language. Or
no language at all. No limits. Extreme poetry. Explosive prose. Nudity
encouraged.
Jane Ormerod is the author of Welcome to the Museum of
Cattle (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms
Press, 2009), the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books, 2008), and the
spoken word CD Nashville Invades Manhattan. She is a founding editor at great
weather for MEDIA, an independent press focusing on edgy and experimental
poetry and prose. Originally from the south coast of England, Jane now lives in
New York City and performs across the United States and beyond. Culture
Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, Paris, Ile-de-france 75020 France. For more
info: http://parislitup.com/
Sunday 8 February;
19h30; Moving Parts Script Reading: “Past
Times” and “A Long Way to Tipperary” by Anne Walsh
Carr’s Pub and
Restaurant; 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris; Metro : Tuileries
Monday 9 February @
19h; Shakespeare and Company presents...Dimitry Léger
on God Loves Haiti; God
Loves Haiti depicts the
lives of three characters, seamlessly alternating between the before and after
of 2010’s devastating earthquake. Haiti is portrayed in all of its complexity—its
prideful past as the first nation established by a successful slave revolt, its
entangled politics with France and the United States, and its efforts to rise
from the ruins to build anew.
Dimitry Elias
Léger was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised between there and
Brooklyn. He is a former staff writer at the Miami Herald, Fortune magazine,
and the Source magazine, and also a contributor to the New York
Times, Newsweek, and the Face magazine in the UK. In 2010, he
worked as an advisor to the United Nations’ disaster recovery operations in
Haiti after the earthquake.
Shakespeare and Co.
37 rue de la Bucherie
Monday 9 Februrary; 20h30; Spoken
Word Open Mic; Theme: Friends/Lovers
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 10
February @ 20h; POETS LIVE PRESENTS: WHAT ACTING CAN BRING TO A TEXT with G.
Louise Cooper and Zorro Maplestone
An offering of monologues from different time periods and around the
world, all of which engage with the natural poetics of language in innovative
or confrontational ways so as to bridge the gap between poetry and theatre and
see what each can learn from the other. The particular difference between
drama and poetry that Lou and Zorro will explore is the idea of the moment of
creation.
BIOS:
Raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, G.Louise Cooper began her work in the theatre in community
productions at the age of thirteen. Continuing from there she attended Oakland
University in Rochester, Michigan where she took a BA in Theatre. In her time
at university Lou’s acting work varied from the locally-shot Oz: The Great and
Powerful to students films to a four-year run of The Diary of Anne Frank at the
regional JET theatre. Her training has also included a course in Meisner
Technique at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. Simply out of a
love for the city Lou has moved to Paris where she hopes to remain, exploring
theatrical and artistic opportunities and eventually take a Masters in Drama
Therapy.
A bilingual Franco-Australian from a multinational family of artists, Zorro Maplestone has grown up treading
the boards, acting in his first theatre production at 6 years old and
continuing throughout his education. While studying theatre from 2011-2013 at
the Monash University Academy of Performing Arts and directing and starring in
4 major productions with the Monash Shakespeare Company and Monash Uni Student
Theatre, Zorro founded interactive theatre company Moosehand Productions in
2012 with friends, producing and directing 3 successful seasons of performances
around Melbourne during 2013. Since January 2014, Zorro has left Melbourne to
go seek further artistic opportunities in Paris, most recently with Paris Lit
Up, a multilingual artistic association promoting international voices in
Paris.
Berkeley
Books of Paris, 8, rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris; Métro: Odéon
Tuesday 10
February; 19h30; Panel Discussion: What We Write About When We Write About
Paris; What do we write about when
we write about Paris? English-language novels set in Paris are a veritable
genre of literature until themselves going back a century. This means there are
pitfalls and cliches to avoid, and perhaps even embrace, as one pens a story
set in the city of Light. How can one write about Paris without being too
self-conscious? How appealing are novels with the French capital as its
backdrop, aside from plot itself? Four authors who have set their stories in
Paris will speak about the literary and pragmatic issues at stake.
This panel
discussion features four permanent and part-time Paris residents— David
Benjamin, Meg Bortin, Debra Finerman, and E.J. Simon—answering the question of
how to write well about Paris, this city so often evoked in fiction.
American Library in Paris; 10
rue du Général Camou, 75007
Wednesday 11
February; 20h; Spoken Word 2: Open Secret; Hosted by David Sirois; Bistrot 82, 82 rue des Martyrs, Montmartre. Metro Pigalle or Abbesses
Wednesday 11 February @
19h30; Evenings with an Author:
Vincent Giroud, Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music; Author Vincent Giroud joins us
to talk about his book in a rare discussion with the subject's son, Ivan
Nabokoff.
Composer
and cultural official Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) led an unusual life even for a
composer who was also a high-level diplomat. Nabokov was for nearly three
decades an outstanding and far-sighted player in international cultural
exchanges during the Cold War, much admired by some of the most distinguished
minds of his century for the range of his interests and the breadth of his
vision.
Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music follows Nabokov's life
through its fascinating details: a privileged Russian childhood before the
Revolution; exile, first to Germany, then to France; the beginnings of a
promising musical career, launched under the aegis of Diaghilev and his Ballets
Russes with Ode in 1928; his
twelve-year "American exile" during which he occupied several
academic positions; his return to Europe after the war to participate in the
denazification of Germany; his involvement in anti-Stalinist causes in the
first years of the Cold War; his participation in the Congress for Cultural
Freedom; his role as cultural adviser to the Mayor of Berlin and director of
the Berlin Festival in the early 1960s; the resumption of his American academic
and musical career in the late 1960s and 1970s. Nabokov is unique not only in
that he was involved on a high level in international cultural politics, but
also in that his life intersected at all times with a vast array of people
within, and also well beyond, the confines of classical music.
Drawing
on a vast array of primary sources, Vincent Giroud's first-ever biography of
Nabokov will be of interest readers interested in twentieth-century music,
Russian music, Russian emigration, and the Cold War, particularly in its
cultural aspects. Musicians and musicologists interested in Nabokov as a
composer, or in twentieth century Russian composers in general, will find in
the book information not available anywhere else (Oxford University Press).
American Library in Paris; 10
rue du Général Camou, 75007
Thursday 12 February @ 20h – 23h55 – PLU
Open Mic featuring Ken Parsons
Every Thursday: if you would like to read, dance, sing or
otherwise express yourself, sign up is open and free to all starting at
8pm-ish. We go until we drop – which means all night long! In any language. Or
no language at all. No limits. Extreme poetry. Explosive prose. Nudity
encouraged.
Ken Parsons Maestro of the Underground. He is a Celtic
Harper, singer, writer, poet and allround entertainer. What can you expect?
Beautiful harp songs, deadly witty short poems and crafted original songs in
every posible style, funny, moving, thought provoking. He also plays many
traditional songs, chansons and covers from an extensive and incredibly diverse
repertoire. From folk through crooners and pop to gothic punk and comedy songs.
In fitting bardic tradition he also works as a translator in five languages and
sings in many more. Culture Rapide, 103
rue Julien Lacroix, Paris, Ile-de-france 75020 France. For more info: http://parislitup.com/
Saturday 14 February @ 16h –
St. Libertine’s Poetry Art Orgy: A bilingual celebration of poetry, art, music
and love
Tired of celebrating the platonic idea of Love on February 14th?
Want to love 2, 3, 10 people at once? Join Paris Lit Up as we celebrate St.
Libertine’s Day 2015 – an evening of creative art and love inspired
by the Bacchanalian orgies of old.
Back at the autonomous artistic squat Hangar 56, and together with
Slamburger et Haiku, we’re launching ourselves headlong into a night of
hedonistic debauchery, celebrating the themes love and sex, kisses and orgies,
and all forms of creativity and artistic exchange.
On stage you’ll find romantic encounters where creative
disciplines of all kinds meet, touch and caress each other. Free collaborations
between visual artists and poets, dancers and graffiti artists, actors and
musicians, rappers and sculptors: all forms of diversity and plurality of
creation will form a unique artistic orgy.
The evening will feature artworks by the unique brushstrokes
of Jb, Zel,
Seyar,
IchdeRib, Gaït, 36.15, Anne Cazaubon, H31, Camille Oneur, La Faille,
Beaucrew and
Groove! These innovative artists will be presenting works that
inspire love letters and poems by both French and Anglo writers.
Also, be on the lookout for the poetry prostitutes from The Poetry Brothel – you may have
the chance to satisfy your deepest poetic desires! Hanger 56, 56 avenue Parmentier, 75011. For more info: http://parislitup.com/st-libertines-poetry-art-orgy/
Monday 16 February
@ 19h; Shakespeare and Company presents...Jonathan Beckman on How to Ruin a Queen; Please join us for an evening of scandalous French history with
Jonathan Beckman, who will be speaking about his much-acclaimed How To Ruin
a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair. This is a tale
of political machinations and extravagance on an enormous scale; of
kidnappings, prison breaks and assassination attempts; of hapless French police
disguised as colliers, reams of lesbian pornography and a duel fought with
poisoned pigs. It is a detective story, a courtroom drama, a tragicomic farce,
and a study of credulity and self-deception in the Age of Enlightenment. Jonathan Beckman is senior editor of Literary
Review. He has degrees in English from the University of Cambridge and
Intellectual and Cultural History from Queen Mary, University of London. In
2010, he won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction.
Shakespeare and Co.
37 rue de la Bucherie
Monday 16 Februrary; 20h30; Spoken
Word Open Mic; Theme: WAR OF THE SEXES (Feminism
uprising) Hosted by Merve (SpokenWord Istanbul) Guest poet Antonia Klimenko
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 17 February
@ 19h30; Evening with Jake Lamar: Brothers in Exile; Join author and playwright
Jake Lamar on Tuesday 17 February for an interactive conversation, exploring
the creative process behind his play Brothers in Exile - the focus of
this year's Black History
Month Exhibit.
While
inspired by real people and real events, this work of the imagination centers
around friendship and rivalry, ambition and talent, as well as commitment and
betrayal.
Brothers in
Exile is set during a critical era in the middle of the
twentieth century, a time when visions of race and colonialism, of capitalism
and Communism, of human equality itself, were undergoing a seismic
transformation. In few places were the political, literary, and even physical,
stakes higher than in Paris. At the center of the story are these three great
writers, Wright, Baldwin and Himes, caught up in the furious whirlpool of
history.
Hear
about the sparks that fueled the project, the surprises along the way, the
critical role research played in enabling the protagonists to express
themselves on stage - in their own words - and how the play has been received
thus far.
American Library in Paris; 10
rue du Général Camou, 75007
Wednesday 18
February; 20h; Spoken Word 2: Open Secret; Hosted by David Sirois; Bistrot 82, 82 rue des Martyrs, Montmartre. Metro Pigalle or Abbesses
Wednesday 18 February @
19h30; Evenings with an Author: Jonathan Beckman, How to Ruin a Queen; Jonathan Beckman, whose How to
Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that
Shook the French Throne, was shortlisted for the Library's 2014 Book
Award, speaks about this book and the history around it. The Telegraph called
Beckman’s book a “rock-solid piece of scholarship, glistening with wit and
insight.” About the author: Jonathan Beckman is the author of How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the
Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne, published
by John Murray in the UK and Da Capo Press in the USA. It won the Royal Society
of Literature/Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction. Jonathan has degrees in English
for the University of Cambridge and Intellectual and Cultural History from
Queen Mary, University of London, and is senior editor of Literary Review.
American Library in Paris; 10
rue du Général Camou, 75007
Thursday 19 February @ 20h-23h55
– PLU Open Mic featuring Dónall Dempsey
Every Thursday: if you would like to read, dance, sing or
otherwise express yourself, sign up is open and free to all starting at
8pm-ish. We go until we drop – which means all night long! In any language. Or
no language at all. No limits. Extreme poetry. Explosive prose. Nudity
encouraged.
Dónall Dempsey is an Irish poet who writes from London and
Southeast United Kingdom. He lives alone in London without even a cat! Dónall
has read with John Cooper Clarke and Paul Durcan on Irish television and has
made two radio programmes for RTE. As the RTE GUIDE so succinctly put it: “the
only way to read a Dónall Dempsey poem is to have it performed by the author.”
SONATA FOR POET AND COMPOSER was a radio collaboration performed by Dónall and
the composer Jolyon Jackson. Dónall had stopped writing and performing for many
a long year, but a recent head injury and paralysis caused him to confront this
lapse and resume the mantle of poet. I guess if that’s what it took then that’s
what it took. He is now manfully working his way through both paralysis and
poetry and hopes to get out of one and enter the realm of the other. Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix,
Paris, Ile-de-france 75020 France. For more info: http://parislitup.com/
Thursday 19
February @ 19h; Shakespeare and Company presents...Philosophers in the Library presents…Razmig Keucheyan
on The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today
Left
Hemisphere offers
the first global cartography of the expanding intellectual field of critical
contemporary thought. More than thirty authors, along with the intellectual
currents of every continent, are presented in a clear and succinct manner. A
history of critical thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is also
provided, helping situate current thinkers in a broader historical and
sociological perspective. As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for
alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical
movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial battlefield,
where the outcome of the crisis will in part be decided, is that of theory.
Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have
produced important and innovative ideas. The endeavour to transform the world
without falling into the catastrophic traps of the past has been a common
element uniting these new approaches.
Join Razmig
Keucheyan as he presents a panoramic account of the world’s leading writers
and thinkers.
Shakespeare and Co.
37 rue de la Bucherie
Sunday 22 February;
19h30; Moving Parts Script Reading: “First
Came the Frost” by Peter Vickers
Carr’s Pub and
Restaurant; 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris; Metro : Tuileries
Monday 23 February; 20h30; Spoken
Word Open Mic; Theme: DANCE Guest Maria D’Arcy
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 24 February @
16h-17h30; A Visit to Papa’s Places: a seminar on Ernest Hemingway’s
residences, Nancy Sindelar; A
Visit to Papa’s Places takes audiences on a visual tour of the places Ernest Hemingway
lived and worked. Audiences will visit Oak Park, Illinois, Paris, France,
Chamby, Switzerland, Key West, Florida, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba and
Ketchum, Idaho and consider the impact these places had on the life and work of
the legendary author.
Copies
of Nancy's book, Influencing Hemingway: People and Places That Shaped His
Life and Work, will be for sale at the event.
To
take part in the seminar, in the Library conference room, please RSVP by email
to programs manager Grant Rosenberg at rosenberg@americanlibraryinparis.org.
Non-members can attend by purchasing a 15 € day pass.
American Library in Paris; 10
rue du Général Camou, 75007
Tuesday 24 February @ 19h30; A
Panel Discussion: Jessica Levine and April Eberhardt- A Novelist and an Agent
Speak; Author
Jessica Levine and agent April Eberhardt will talk about their relationship as
writer and agent and how it relates to publishing. It promises to be an evening
that is a practical guide to getting further in one's writing and hopefully
finding a path to publication, as well as just an interesting conversation
about one writer's experience in finding and agent and having her book, The
Geometry of Love, find success.
They
will explore how publishing and the author-agent relathionship has changed from
years past and how social media and other factors play a role.
American Library in Paris; 10
rue du Général Camou, 75007
Wednesday 25
February; 20h; Spoken Word 2: Open Secret; Hosted by David Sirois; Bistrot 82, 82 rue des Martyrs, Montmartre. Metro Pigalle or Abbesses
PART II:
WORKSHOPS
Saturday 7 February @ 15h – 17h
– PLU Slam Poetry Workshop
We’ve got six months until the 12th Grand Slam National in Paris,
and this year Paris Lit Up would like to take our participation one step
further by having our own slam team competing. The PLU Slam Team will be
coordinated by Megan Bullock. The first meeting will be held on Saturday,
January 24th from 3-5pm at Le Centquatre–Paris located 5 rue Curial, Paris
75019. Workshops will then be held every other Saturday until June. Come with a
slam, original or not. Since slams are just as much about the delivery as the
text, the workshops will focus on both production/editing and expression/performance.
Anyone who has interest in slam or spoken word poetry is invited to the
workshops, though the ultimate goal is to form a PLU slam team to perform at
the 2015 Grand Slam. Donations of 3€ to support the team will be gladly
accepted. Le Centquatre-Paris, 5 rue
Curial, Paris, Ile-de-france 75019. For more info: http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/plu-slam-workshop/
Sunday 8 February @ 18h30-20h30; The Other Writers’ Group
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.
Shakespeare
& Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie,
75005
Saturday 14 February@ 15h – 17h
– Paris Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop
Are you a writer? Have you written something that needs fresh
eyes? Want some feedback on your work? Paris Lit Up has weekly Drop-in Writing
Workshop. This feedback workshop is for any writer – poetry or prose – looking
for eagle-eye editing and constructive group criticism of their work. Simply
bring up to 2 poems or 5 pages of prose (in multiple copies,
double-spaced, 12 pt. font) and our expert workshop hosts will guide the group
through a careful reading and discussion of it. All participants will be
encouraged to share their opinions on how the work reads, what thoughts it
provokes, and to comment on it. The workshop is held every other Saturday
afternoon at L’Autre Café, 62 rue
Jean-Pierre Timbaud (métro Parmentier). For more info:
http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops
Sunday 15 February @ 18h30-20h30; The Other Writers’ Group
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.
Shakespeare
& Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie,
75005
Saturday 21 February @ 15h-17h – PLU Slam Poetry Workshop
We’ve got six months until the 12th Grand Slam National in Paris,
and this year Paris Lit Up would like to take our participation one step
further by having our own slam team competing. The PLU Slam Team will be
coordinated by Megan Bullock. The first meeting will be held on Saturday,
January 24th from 3-5pm at Le Centquatre–Paris located 5 rue Curial, Paris
75019. Workshops will then be held every other Saturday until June. Come with a
slam, original or not. Since slams are just as much about the delivery as the
text, the workshops will focus on both production/editing and
expression/performance. Anyone who has interest in slam or spoken word poetry
is invited to the workshops, though the ultimate goal is to form a PLU slam
team to perform at the 2015 Grand Slam. Donations of 3€ to support the team
will be gladly accepted. Le
Centquatre-Paris, 5 rue Curial, Paris, Ile-de-france 75019. For more info:
http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/plu-slam-workshop/
Sunday 22 February @ 18h30-20h30; The Other Writers’ Group
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.
Shakespeare
& Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie,
75005
Saturday 28 February@ 15h-17h – Paris Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop
Are you a writer? Have you written something that needs fresh
eyes? Want some feedback on your work? Paris Lit Up has weekly Drop-in Writing
Workshop. This feedback workshop is for any writer – poetry or prose – looking
for eagle-eye editing and constructive group criticism of their work. Simply
bring up to 2 poems or 5 pages of prose (in multiple copies,
double-spaced, 12 pt. font) and our expert workshop hosts will guide the group
through a careful reading and discussion of it. All participants will be
encouraged to share their opinions on how the work reads, what thoughts it provokes,
and to comment on it. The workshop is held every other Saturday afternoon at L’Autre Café, 62 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud
(métro Parmentier). For more info: http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops
PART III:
REVIEWS, RELEASES, SUBMISSIONS
For its Parisian event on March 6th, 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.
The Poetry
Brothel in Paris is looking for Poetry Whores
About The Poetry
Brothel: The Poetry Brothel is a unique poetry event that takes
poetry outside classrooms and lecture halls and places it in the lush interiors
of a bordello. The clients in the audience can approach the
"poetry whores" and for a small fee have a sequestered reading
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.
Pour son événement Parisien le 6 Mars, le Bordel de La Poésie
recherche des Poètes: hommes et femmes, émergents et établis, d’ici et
d’ailleurs. Êtes-vous un poète? Aimez-vous lire de la poésie au lit? Avez-vous
déjà mis un costume et pris un nom de scène? Avez-vous envie d’un verre
d’absinthe là maintenant tout de suite? Si c’est le cas, envoyez 5 poèmes (de
deux pages maximum chacun), votre biographie professionnelle, la biographie de
votre “personnage” Poetry Brothel (thepoetrybrothel.com/meet.html)
et une photo de vous à lebordelpoetique@gmail.com. Vous serez
payés par les clients pour les lectures privées que vous donnerez.
A propos du
Poetry Brothel Paris: Le Bordel de la Poésie est un événement littéraire unique
qui emporte la poésie loin des salles de classe et de conférence pour l’emmener
au coeur des intérieurs luxuriants d’un bordel. Les clients parmi l'audience
peuvent se rapprocher des “Putains de Poètes” et, pour une somme modique,
s’offrir une lecture privée à n’importe quel moment de l’événement. Bien sûr,
tout bordel qui se respecte a besoin d’une bonne couverture: le Poetry Brothel
est un cabaret immersif et vous propose un bar bien garni, du jazz live, des
danseurs burlesques, des peintres et diseuses de bonne aventure, ainsi que de
nouveaux thèmes, performances et installations à chaque événement.
Pour plus d'info:
Paris Lit Up n°3 – Call for
submissions
Open from 1st February to 15th March 2015
New forms, bright colors, strange shapes. Paris Lit Up n°3 wants
to get lost in your imagination. The third issue of our internationally
celebrated magazine is officially open for submissions through our
new submissions database. As before, we welcome your words, art, photos,
critical thinking, interviews, essays, comics, cartoons, translations and
academic tirades – even your collection of porcelain zebras would look great on
our shelf. If it can be put on a page… we want it!
Just tell us something we haven’t heard before. Show us something
we haven’t seen before. There are no rules or limits at this establishment. We
don’t count your words or impose themes; surprise us with your creative
prowess! Deadline: 15th March 2015.
Editors: Emily Ruck Keene, Zorro Maplestone, Jason
Francis Mc Gimsey, Helen Cusack
O’Keeffe, Lauren Purlee. Guest Editors: Jennifer K. Dick, Pansy Maurer-Alvarez. For more info:
http://parislitup.com/paris-lit-up-n3-call-for-submissions/
Paris Lit Up
Shorts Contest – Deadline February 28th – 1000€ prize
Paris Lit Up is
after your best shorts. Short stories, that is. We’re holding a writing
contest, shortlisted by our team of rabid avid readers and judged by the
esteemed novelist Shannon Cain. We’re looking for stories on absolutely
anything: any style, any genre, and any topic. Anything goes – as long as you
wrote it.
You can send as many entries as you like but each story
costs 10 euros to submit. Minimum word count is 2000, maximum 8000, and we’re
asking if you could send your submissions in doubled-spaced, 12 pt. Times New
Roman. This is to avoid any bias against entries written in Comic Sans. We’ll
be reading blind so, to make our lives easier and the competition fairer, the
document you submit should only include a title and a story – no mention
of the author on the pages. Just put your name in the submission notes. Also,
you should send it in .docx, .doc, .odt or .txt formats, otherwise we might not
be able to read them, which would be a waste of ten euros and a good story.
The grand prize is not only a wallet-pleasing 1000 euros,
but the winning entry will also be published, along with the 4 runners-up, by Paris Lit Up Press. The deadline for
submissions is February 28th, 2015 at 12h Paris time. The 20 story shortlist
will be announced on April 31st, 2015. The winner and runner ups will be
announced on May 15th, 2015.
Our shortlist judge Shannon Cain has taught fiction writing
at the University of Leipzig, the University of Arizona, Gotham Writers’ Workshop,
Arizona State University, and most recently as a core faculty member in the MFA
program at Bennington College. In 2012 she organized The Santa Rita
Writers’ Workshop. Her first book, The Necessity of
Certain Behaviors, won the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the
largest cash award in the U.S. for an unpublished collection of stories. Her
work also has been awarded the O. Henry Prize, two Pushcarts, and a fellowship
from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts. In 2014, the French government
awarded her a 3-year Skills and Talents visa in the arts. In 2013 and
2014, Shannon’s
current and former clients published six books; placed twenty-three stories
or poems in literary journals; won four national writing contests, were
accepted into two MFA programs, and completed one postgraduate fellowship.
Submit HERE:
http://press.parislitup.com/shorts/
Paris Lit Up
Roman Writing Retreat – Application deadline 15 February
– Only Paris is worthy of Rome,
only Rome is worthy of
Paris.
Paris Lit Up is proud to present our first ever Roman
Writing Retreat to be held on June 8th through 14th, 2015. Join us as
we escape the city for this 6-day writing holiday in the picturesque Italian
countryside. Set at the independently owned and operated La Preta Nera country
home, 11 applicants will spend one week honing their writing skills
through daily group feedback workshops and 3 master classes
including our featured author and writing coach, Shannon Cain.
La Preta Nera
is a charming traditional house in the heart of the historic center of Giuliano
di Roma, in Ciociaria. The original medieval village was built on top of
the crater of an extinct volcano and the guesthouse is named after the
basaltic stone from the lava flows throughout the area. Like most of
the houses in the village, La Preta Nera was built using black basaltic
stones, still visible today. Just 90km south of Rome and 30km from the
beach, in an area of rolling hills and valleys, La Preta Nera is the
perfect place to spend a writing holiday in a natural environment, in
contact with the inhabitants of this small village and surrounded by beautiful
countryside and enchanting woods.
For more info: http://parislitup.com/paris-lit-up-roman-writing-retreat/
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!
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