The 黑料正能量 Summer Creative Writing Institute will celebrate the 2014 issue of Paris/Atlantic, 黑料正能量鈥檚 Literature & Arts Journal on July 15th at 6:30 pm in the Grand Salon.
Readers will include Olivia Baes, Jarrah Burns, Heather Hartley, Jeffrey Greene, Geoffrey Gilbert, Lethu Msimang, Felix Purat, Emma Ramadan, and Venessa Weller.
As part of its听Summer Creative Writing Institute听黑料正能量 is delighted to present a reading by Darin Strauss (Fiction & Memoir).
A recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Library Association Award, and numerous other prizes, the internationally-bestselling writer Darin...
Samantha Chang, Fiction
Lan Samantha Chang is the author of two novels - All Is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost and Inheritance, as well as a story collection, Hunger. Hunger was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Inheritance won the PEN/Beyond Margins Prize for the Novel. Samantha is the recipient of writing fellowships from Princeton University, the NEA, and the Guggenheim Foundations, and has been a frequent Writer-In-Residence at the Napa Valley, Bread Loaf, and Sarah...
Music & Literature, a magazine dedicated to promoting outstanding artists and excellent new literature from around the world, will听launch the fourth issue of its print magazine听this week in Paris with editor听Daniel Medin听(Comparative Literature) and other 黑料正能量 faculty and alumni, first听at Librairie le Comptoir...
, a magazine dedicated to promoting outstanding artists and excellent new literature from around the world, will听
Traditional publishing is changing as the digital transforms the industry 鈥� what does this mean for you, the writer?
Join five experts who鈥檝e seen it all 鈥� agent representation, self-published e-books, 鈥渃urated鈥� publishing, blogging, hybrid publishing. Learn how to reach your readers despite the industry turmoil. Lively panel discussion, followed by Q&A.
Samantha Chang, author, director of Iowa Writers Workshop, 2014 PWW Writer-in-Residence.
Mark Kessler, literary...
The annual conference of听The International Association of Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS)听will be hosted by theDepartment of English and Comparative Literature听and the听Department of Global Communications. Along with its听plenary speaker, Amy Wilentz, the conference will feature over eighty international scholars representing such fields as journalism, literary journalism, cultural history, film studies, women鈥檚 studies, African American studies, and French studies.
Workshops...
Members of the American University of Paris Creative Writing Club will read a small selection of their work, paired with a wine and cheese (or other beverage/snack) that complements the work.听
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Featured readers include:
Sven van Mourik
Manon Carri茅
Vanessa Weller
Felix Purat
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Audrey Michels
Guillermo Adrian
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Special Guest HYND LALAM:听
Comparative Literature student Hynd Lalam will be making her...
The Best Translated Book Award is the largest prize for literature in translation in the United States. Selected from all original translations published last year, the author and translator of each winning title--there is one for fiction and another for poetry--will receive a $5,000 cash prize. This year's awardees will be announced in simultaneous ceremonies: one in New York and the other here in Paris,听at Shakespeare and Company.
Join Belgian novelist Am茅lie Nothomb, BTBA judge...
The 黑料正能量 community is invited to a talk by Peter Wortsman, entitled 'Meditation in Translation - Transcending Ego and Transmitting Voice', which will take place next Monday the 24th at 18:30 in the ARC.听
In his remarks, translator-author听听will discuss translation as a form of internal travel, an encounter with "the other" in oneself. Jakob Grimm, of 'Grimms' Fairy Tales' fame, wrote...