Life-Writing Workshop with Carolyn Burke

Carolyn Burke, authorof "Lee Miller, A Life" (Knopf/Bloomsbury) and "Becoming Modern, The Life of Mina Loy" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is pleased to offer a two-day intensive workshop for writers working on biographies and memoirs or planning to do so, on June 17 & 18, 10 am to 3pm at Shakespeare & Company .

Topics covered will include choice of subject, research techniques, the proposal as a way to clarify emphasis and structure, and narrative strategies to ensure liveliness—the techniques of fiction applied to the richly contextual form that is contemporary biography.

They will work together with materials that bring historical perspective to the intimate details of a life or a set of lives in their intertwinings.

Participants should send two pages on their projects to James at Shakespeare & Company by 1 June if possible.  Last-minute participants are also welcome. 

The workshop fee of 200 euros includes a private consultation, to be arranged.
Please leave at the desk at Shakespeare and Company an envelope titled Life-writing workshop, and a cheque or cash inside for 200 Euros made out to Association Shakespeare and Company Literary Festival.

Carolyn Burke, who was born in Australia, lives in California and spends part of the year in Paris. Her "Lee Miller" was published in French by Autrement in 2007; the Nouvelle Revue Française will publish the translation of a chapter from Becoming Modern in October 2008.
She is writing a life of Edith Piaf, to be published by Knopf.

Please see www.festivalandco.com for further details

Comments

[Parisgirl]

Please put Parislogue on the book reviewers' list whenever galleys are available of the Edith Piaf biography! I just introduced Parisian friends to Bernay last week and Marie at the Bernay tourism bureau told us about Carolyn Burke's upcoming book. Can't wait to read it.

[kristi anderson]

I have a B&B 90 minutes south of paris and I am organising
"FrogBreaks - Creative workshops in Sologne France". I am looking for english speaking instructors. Please look at my blog http://TheAmericanFrog.typepad.fr or connect me at TheAmericanFrog@aol.com. All ideas are welcomed. Kristi Anderson Founder of Tea & Tattered Pages