WICE upcoming events

LY161 Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry (16 May 2026)

Sat, 16 May 2026 12:30:00 GMT

Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry." -Emily Dickinson

Program Description:

Tea and Tattered Pages is a multi-faceted program designed to bring poetry closer to the fore in our lives, and perhaps create a small community around it. Our activities include reading, writing, discussing, reciting, and trying to live poetry.

There will be no fixed agenda for events; rather, forthcoming events will usually be decided by vote as we move through the year, and published as things are decided. You can get a sense of what sorts of activities we will be doing on the program's web page:

Tea and Tattered Pages

May Agenda

The May agenda will focus on reading and discussing poetry in translation. Specifically, we will read and discuss one or more poems by both Charles Baudelaire and Guillaume Apollinaire in two or more translations. We will finish the session by dividing into small groups, all groups having the same poem to read and to interpret, and then having a full group discussion about our findings and how they compare and contrast.

Instructors: Heather Hartley

Heather Hartley’s poetry collections include Adult Swim and Knock Knock, both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She was Paris Editor for Tin House magazine for over fifteen years.

Her short fiction, poems, essays and interviews have appeared in or on PBS Newshour, The Guardian, The Literary Review and other venues. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent’s (UK) Paris School of Arts and Culture and has also taught at the American University of Paris and the University of Texas El Paso MFA program.

www.heatherhartleyink.com

WF171 Intensive Fiction-Writing Workshop (19 May 2026)

Tue, 19 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Advanced Intensive Fiction Workshop

Description

This fiction workshop (meeting weekly via Zoom) is designed to help you make significant progress on a project you’re already working on and raise your craft to the next level. Whether you’re exploring short-story writing or knee-deep in a novel manuscript, you’ll have ample opportunity to workshop your writing and troubleshoot obstacles. We will supplement participants’ own works-in-progress with published pieces of fiction carefully selected based on the specific genres and craft issues participants are grappling with, analyzing the ways other authors have tackled those challenges themselves.

In a supportive, generous, intellectually curious, and motivating atmosphere, we’ll dive into stories aiming to understand how they work, what they’re trying to achieve, and how to more fully realize their vision.

The extended 12-week format will allow for greater investment in each other’s writing, more occasions for each writer to receive peer and instructor feedback, and a stronger sense of community and mutual support among participants.

Instructor

Noah Weisz has an M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Texas at Austin and over a decade of experience teaching creative writing. A past winner of the F(r)iction Short Story Contest, the Katherine Paterson Prize, and the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award, his short stories for children, teens, and adults have been widely published in literary magazines. Based in Paris, he regularly teaches creative writing to undergraduates at Sciences Po as well as to American study-abroad students through CEA CAPA.

LU131 Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry (13 Jun 2026)

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:30:00 GMT

Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry." -Emily Dickinson

Program Description:

Tea and Tattered Pages

June Agenda

The June agenda has yet to be determined, but we are considering joint readings by poet-in-residence Heather Hartley and haiku writer/teacher Anna Eklund-Cheong.

The agenda will be finalized by 9 May.

If you have any questions, please contact literature@wice-paris.org

Instructors:

Heather Hartley

Heather Hartley’s poetry collections include Adult Swim and Knock Knock, both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She was Paris Editor for Tin House magazine for over fifteen years.