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Our list of guest artists expands ....
join us for
The Paris Writers Retreat, April 19 - 23
featuring:
International bestselling author Peter Nichols
Nichols will speak about his new book and other journeys in
narrative nonfiction
and fiction. Nichols books include Evolution's Captain (Harper); A Voyage for
Madmen (Harper); Sea Change: Alone Across the
Atlantic in a Wooden Boat
(Viking/Penguin), and the forthcoming Oil & Ice: A Story of Arctic
Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynasty (Penguin, Sept. 2010). He has
taught fiction and nonfiction writing at New York University and
Georgetown University, and has been a guest lecturer at The Smithsonian
and other organizations worldwide. Nichols' articles have appeared in
The New York Times, GQ, Men's Journal, The London Times, The Guardian,
The Daily Telegraph, The London Review of Books, Outside, and Salon.com,
among others.
Award-winning filmmaker/director/screenwriter
Pan Nalin
( Samsara; Valley of Flowers; Ayurveda: The Art of Being) Nalin will talk about story development, adapting books for film, and other writerly adventures. Nalin's
first feature film SAMSARA, a mega
commercial and critical success worldwide, won him some thirty awards and
grossed $24 million. Samsara has
been acquired by Miramax/Disney for the US. His feature documentary Ayurveda: Art of Being has also won
many awards and continues its theatrical release worldwide. Nalin's latest feature
film VALLEY OF FLOWERS was filmed in
remote, high altitude Himalayas and in Japan and won The Best Picture award at
IFFLA in Los Angeles. In
2006, Pan Nalin was awarded Spain's highly prestigious award Vida Sana for his contribution as a
filmmaker. TMG
(David Flint's Triangle Media Group UK) awarded Pan Nalin as one of the Top 50 Achievers in Global Mainstream
Media in the field of Film, Theatre & Drama.
 Hilary Masters
Award-winning novelist and nonfiction author
Masters is a critically acclaimed author of eight novels, two collections of short fiction, a memoir, and a book of essays. His recent books include the short story collection How the Indians Buried Their Dead, and I n Rooms of Memory. Other titles include The Common Pasture (Macmillan), An American Marriage (Macmillan); Palace of Strangers ( World); Clemmons ( David
Godine); Cooper (St. Martin's); Manuscript for
Murder, under the pseudonym, P. J. Coyne (Dodd, Mead &
Company); Strickland ( St. Martin's); Home Is the
Exile, (Permanent Press). Selected fiction was
published under the title Success, by St. Martin's. Perhaps Masters' best-known work is the memoir, Last Stands: Notes
from Memory, published by David Godine. Masters' short fiction has been cited in Best American Short Stories
and Pushcart Prize anthologies. He has recently been awarded the
Balch Prize for fiction and the Monroe Spears Prize for the essay. His
work has been anthologized in The Best Essays of 1998 (Anchor-Doubleday),
edited by Phillip Lopate, and in The Best American Essays of 1999 (Houghton
Mifflin), edited by Edward Hoagland and Robert Atwan. Masters received an Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
 Kathleen GeorgeEdgar Award-nominated novelist and nonfiction authorInternational author and novelist, George's critically acclaimed works of fiction include TAKEN ( Delacorte) 2001; FALLEN,
(Dell); AFTERIMAGE, (St. Martin's Minotaur); and, most recently, THE ODDS,
(St. Martin's Minotaur). A new novel, HIDEOUT, is in the works.
George's short fiction has appeared in journals and
magazines including Mademoiselle, Cimarron Review, North American
Review, New Letters, and Alaska Quarterly Review. She has been
nominated for a Pushcart Prize and one story was listed among the
Distinguished in Best American Short Stories.
Of George's first novel, TAKEN, The Washington Post has said: "It is George's grasp of the human factor that makes her novel such a
pleasure... A thinking person's thriller, written with skill, self-confidence, and
sensitivity."
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Do your most authentic work in Paris
April 19 - 23
Paris Writers Retreat
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To register online, go to the Register page, or call 1-646-845-9185. You may also write to us.
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Wendy
Goldman Rohm, New York Times best-selling author and literary agent, has
taught and lectured for MediaBistro, Yale University, onboard the QEII,
and at numerous universities and organizations in the US, Europe and
Asia. She has presented her writing and book workshops since 2002. The
workshops were originally inspired by her Masters Teas at Yale
University.
Rohm's
work has been published by Random House,The New York
Times Syndicate International, Men's Vogue, Wired magazine, Tina Brown's Talk
magazine, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Financial Times of London,
Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and many others. She's also been a
literary agent and author for Sterling Lord Literistic, New York; The
Waxman Agency, NY; Waterside Productions, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif.;
and founded The Rohm Agency (NY, Paris, Chicago) to represent emerging
authors of fiction and nonfiction.
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Story and manuscript development
come alive at this five-day conference in Paris, April 19-23, 2010.
Develop your book, fine tune
your manuscript, and perfect your writing in progress. Writers of all
levels attend to generate new material, develop ideas, or perfect works
in progress.
Led by NY Times bestselling author and literary
agent Wendy Goldman
Rohm, the Paris Writers Retreat has been held since 2002
worldwide, originally inspired by Rohm's Masters Tea at Yale University.
Participating
writers are guided through the creation process, fine tuning and
perfecting their manuscripts--from the seed of an idea to a high-quality
draft. The Paris Writers Retreat includes continental breakfast,
lunch, the five-day conference sessions (see Schedule), and an optional group dinner and
cocktail reception / networking soiree every evening. The conference takes place at a 4-star hotel in Paris' literary and arts
neighborhood,
steps from the Louvre. Feel free to drop us a note by replying to this email, if you need help with anything. See our web site for numerous testimonials from writers worldwide who have attended past workshops and conferences. You may Register online or by phone at 1-646-845-0185. For more information, go to: ParisWritersRetreat.com***
Ms. Rohm's writing workshops have been held across the US,
India, France, Ireland, and Thailand, and have featured guest artists
including Pulitzer Prize finalist Suketu Mehta (Maximum City; Knopf); Broadway
producer Brian Swibel; screenwriter and film director Pan Nalin (Samsara, and Valley of Flowers); Obie-award-winning
playwright Robert Auletta; legendary literary agent
Sterling Lord (who represented authors Jack
Kerouac and Ken Kesey, among others); playwright and French cultural attache Fabrice Rozie (Transatlantic
Liaisons); author Sarayu
Ahuja (Where
the Streets Lead; Out of God's Oven; The Last Pretense); journalist/author Victoria Clarke (A Drink with Shane MacGowan); children's author Sonja Chandrachud (The Potion of Eternity; Penguin
India), British screenwriter Jane Hawksley (Je T'aime Paris),
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