Erin Byrne - Writer

It's easy to stay in our well-worn writing paths but as Fernand Pouillon writes, "creation happens when boldness is released."

This seven-week workshop will encourage the idea that our best writing happens when we overcome timidity and gather our courage to leap into the void. Together, in this supportive environment, we will focus on taking risks in our writing and learn techniques to create authentic work described by Pouillon as unique, sound, untainted, springing from the heart, the intelligence, the sensibility.

Following the leaps of Victor Hugo, Michael Chabon, Ray Bradbury, Gabriel Garcia Márquez and other daring writers, we'll work together to take our writing to a new place. We will focus on the use of instinct and spontaneity in our writing and throughout the seven weeks, each writer will complete several new works which at the conclusion of this workshop will be ready for that final plunge of submitting for publication.

Create the work you've been poised to write. All levels are welcome from beginning writer to published author.

Erin Byrne's work has won numerous awards including five Solas Awards and has appeared in Everywhere magazine, World Hum, Brave New Traveler, Traveler's Tales, and many other publications. New essays will be included in the anthology Best Travel Writing 2011 and the upcoming issue of Crab Creek Review. Her award-winning piece The Rarest of Editions is about George Whitman of Shakespeare and Company. Erin is currently working on Wings From Victory, a collection of essays about Paris, Changes in Solange, a novel of the French Revolution, and Siesta, a screenplay to be filmed in Spain. A complete list of awards and links to Erin's work can be found at www.e-byrne.com.

Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, Paris
Tues or Wed evenings 19:00-21:00 (7:00-9:00)
September 13 - October 26, 2011
90 euros.

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