Agent Consultations
Agent Consultations
The Paris Writers Workshop will offer a limited number of one-on-one consultations with our agent/publisher guests, Jonathan Lloyd of Curtis Brown Ltd., formerly of HarperCollins UK, Elizabeth Sheinkman, also of Curtis Brown, and Patrick Janson-Smith, London-based former publisher of Doubleday/Transworld and now head of the newly-formed Blue Door, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Consultations are scheduled for Sunday, July 6, between the hours of 10 am – 12 pm and 1 – 4 pm. Please be on time, since priorities will be strictly observed.
The price for a 15 minute private discussion is Euros 75 for PWW participants and Euros 150 for all others.
Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis and cannot be transferred. Space is limited. To register, complete the provided form and send this form with your payment (see below), a single page synopsis, and a 1000 word excerpt of your manuscript, consecutive from the beginning, to:
WICE/Paris Writers Workshop
Agent Consultations
20, boulevard de Montparnasse
75015 Paris, France
Cancellation Policy
**Consultation Cancellation Policy: For cancellations made before June 2, 2008, your fee will be refunded. No refunds will apply to cancellations made on or after June 2, 2008.
Twentieth Annual Paris Writers Workshop
previous stop press
British novelist to judge first Paris Prize
British writer Matt Thorne has agreed to judge the first $5000 Paris prize for fiction. Born in 1974, Matt grew up in Bristol, graduated from Cambridge University, and published six novels before he turned thirty. Tourist, (1998) attacked the negative effects of tourism on a seaside town. Eight Minutes Idle (1999) drew on his experiences working in a call centre, and won an Encore Award, while his 2004 novel Cherry was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His critical study of the rock musician Prince will be published in 2010.
A regular critic for national newspapers, Matt has written screenplays and plays for radio, and several books for young adults, including the 39 Castles series, about a group of high-spirited children in medieval England.
Photo: Caroline Forbes
Another PWW success story!
Natalia Sarkissian (PWW 2007) writes: "Congratulations on your lovely new website. I would love to attend PWW this year, but as a result of last year's short-story workshop with Manette Ansay I was awarded a merit scholarship by Vermont College, where I am currently enrolled! I can safely say it is all thanks to you and your wonderful program that my life has taken a new and unexpected turn."
The Organisers
Meet Marcia and John, the people who made this year's PWW happen.
Marcia Lèbre
Marcia Mead Lèbre, who has lived in France since 1973, is a poet, translator, and teacher.... She attended her first Paris Writers Workshop in 1992 as a beginning writer and discovered her vocation as a poet. After participating in several more PWW's, she returned to graduate school and earned a M.F.A. at Bennington College She has directed the Paris Writers Workshop since 1998.
John Baxter
John Baxter was born in Australia but has written and taught in London, Dublin, Los Angeles and, for the last 18 years, in Paris. He is the author of more than 40 books, including We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light, A Pound of Paper; Confessions of a Book Addict, the forthcoming Immoveable Feast; A Paris Christmas, and biographies of Robert DeNiro, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allen.
