Join us in Paris this Spring May 12 - 17, 2024. Personal Narrative Workshop with Jeanne McCulloch and Karen Karbo
Now in our 11th year, the Todos Santos Writers Workshop spreads its wings from Baja to the Seine this spring, launching our second annual Paris workshop May 12 - 17. (more about TSWW here).
Our Parisian HQ is a sublime loft in the heart of the Marais, an historic district bustling with shops, cafés, and local color.
Limited to 10 participants, and led by Jeanne McCulloch and Karen Karbo, the workshop is devoted to personal narrative writing—this includes memoir/personal essay, as well as fiction based on personal experience—the term du jour for the latter being “auto fiction” but we avoid such buzz words or slogans, as everyone’s work is different, their goals are different, and we’re here to meet you where you are in your project.
The workshop will feature instrruction, individual attention, literary discussion, exchange of ideas, and comràderie, all designed to push your work forward with optimal feedback in an inspring setting.
OVERVIEW:
Workshop meets daily at TSWW’s Paris HQ, beginning Sunday morning May 12 from 9:30 AM - 1 PM. Coffee, tea, and croissants will be in plentiful supply.
Evening Apéro and Craft: Guest speakers -- American writers living and working in France -- will join us on two evenings for drinks and bites. Please feel free to invite along a plus one (or two).
Monday May 13, 6:00 - 7::30PM Tom Lutz, founder and longtime editor the Los Angeles Review of Books, author of fiction and non-fiction books including Born Slippy: A Novel (2020); And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life in Transit (2017); Drinking Mare’s Milk on the Roof of the World: Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar (2016); and Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums (2008), among others.
Wednesday May 15, 6:00 - 7::30PM Laurie Winer, a founding editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, a theater critic for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, author of Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical.
Jeanne and Karen will both hold individual conferences with each participant on the final day, May 17.
For more information, contact us at todoswrite@gmail.com
À bientôt!
Tuition
$2000 Last date to apply: April 25.
Early Bird Discount: $1800 until April 1 Extended to April 15
A deposit of $1000 will be required to secure your place in the workshop with full tuition due prior to arrival at TSWW Paris. Payments may be made via PayPal (please include the fee) or Zelle to todoswrite@gmail.com Credit Card payments may be made by pre-arranged phone call.
Note: Although TSWW does not provide lodging in Paris, we are happy to offer recommendations.