THE 20TH PARIS WRITERS WORKSHOP July 1st to 11th , 2008

For more than a century, writers and aspiring writers have been drawn to Paris, the city which inspired Henry James, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, James Baldwin and Gertrude Stein, the city whose magic inspired their literary creations.

For twenty of those years, the Paris Writers' Workshop, France's oldest continuing creative writing workshop, has been part of that process and of those hopes. For two weeks in July 2008, the Workshop will offer to a hundred people the chance to enjoy intensive writing tuition and discussion in English in the heart of historic Montparnasse.

In workshops devoted to Short Fiction, Literary Non-Fiction, Poetry and the Novel, writers fine-tune their work under the guidance of distinguished authors who bring to the process a hard practical experience of the craft. In parallel with these intensive courses, 3-day courses will deal with Romance fiction, Fantasy, Crime Fiction, Celebrity Biography, Translation and Screenwriting.

In addition, readings, walks around literary Paris and informal evening gatherings encourage the spirit of creative collaboration which has always been an integral part of the Paris literary experience.