Literary Walks
Paris Writers Workshop participants will have the option to choose between the two proposed Literary Walks: Writers of the Left Bank or Saint Germain des Près on Monday, June 28th from 4 to 6 pm.
Writers of the Left Bank concentrates on the highpoints of the Latin Quarter associated with the writers of the 1920s and the Beat Generation. Hotels, bars, jazz clubs, and bookstores they frequented. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein, Sylvia Beach, Sartre and many others who made Paris their home.
St Germain des Près captures the essence of the Left Bank: the ancient abbey church of Saint Germain, charming streets lined with bookstores and literary cafés, old squares, artists' studios, the famous Paris Fine Arts School, and the hotel where Oscar Wilde died. The walk includes the beautiful church of Saint Sulpice, its mysterious gnomon, and the Rose Line, all mentioned in The DaVinci Code.
Mission Statement
The Paris Writers Workshop is committed to providing inspiration and high-level instruction on craft to writers of all skill levels in a supportive environment. The PWW celebrates the diversity of voices within its community of writers.
The Paris Writers' Workshop is organized by WICE, a non-profit, organization founded in 1978 that offers innovative, educational courses and programs for the Anglophone community in Paris.
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The Director
Meet the person who makes 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.
