The Todos Santos Writers Workshop spreads its wings from Baja to the Seine each spring for our Todos Paris Workshop. (More about TSWW here). Our session begins Sunday night May 24 with a Welcome Reception, 5 - 7PM. Classes begin next morning, Monday May 25, and continue daily through Saturday May 30.

A look back at our previous years:

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 6 participants and led by Jeanne McCulloch (memoir) and Karen Karbo (fiction), the two classes featured instruction, individual attention, literary discussion, exchange of ideas, and comràderie, all designed to push the work forward with optimal, supportive feedback in an inspiring setting.

FACULTY

• In addition to being a memoirist, JEANNE McCULLOCH served as managing editor of The Paris Review for ten years and is a member of the distntguished literary journal's board of directors.
• KAREN KARBO is the author of fourteen award-winning novels, memoirs and works of non-fiction including the best-selling “Kick Ass Women” series.

OVERVIEW:
Workshops meet daily at TSWW’s Paris HQ from 9:30 AM - 1 PM. Coffee, tea, and croissants are in plentiful supply.

Jeanne and Karen both hold individual conferences with each participant on the final day of the session.

Evening Apéro & Craft: Guest speakers are American writers living and working in France who join us on two evenings for drinks and bites. Please feel free to invite along a plus one (or two).

Some of our past guest speakers:

Paris-based author JAKE LAMAR is the author of a memoir, seven novels, numerous essays, reviews and short stories, and a play.

His most recent work, Viper's Dream, is both a crime novel and an audio drama, set in the jazz world of Harlem between 1936 and 1961. He grew up in the Bronx, New York, graduated from Harvard University, and spent six years writing for Time magazine. Moving to Paris in 1993, he teaches creative writing at one of France's top universities, Sciences Po. More at https://jakelamar.com

DANA THOMAS - Paris-based contributor to The New York Times, author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, Fashionopolis Young Readers Edition, Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, and the New York Times bestseller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, all published by Penguin Press.

She hosts the award-winning podcast “The Green Dream,” focused on sustainability and human rights. She wrote the screenplay for Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, a feature documentary directed by Luca Guadagnino, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020. More at https://www.danathomas.com

Novelist SAMUÉL LOPEZ BARRANTES and designer/photographer AUGUSTA SAGNELLI are the husband and wife team behind the publishing imprint they co-founded, Kingdom Anywhere. They discussed the art of indie publishing. Their story is compelling and inspiring to anyone who fears that the publishing industry in general, and books in particular, is languishing in our digital age. Check out their websites: https://www.samuellopezbarrantes.com
and www.augustasagnelli.com.

On the last day of our Srping 2025  session, we opened the champagne to toast one of our own Todos Paris workshop participants, SHONDA BUCHANAN. Her book The Lost Songs of Nina Simone is coming out the very week of our workshop. We raised our glasses, and Shonda read some of her  remarkable poems to celebrate. https://shondabuchanan.com/books

For more information, contact us at todoswrite@gmail.com or click here.

À bientôt!