Do you enjoy writing but don’t know how to do it? Would you like to get started and write your first story with the advice of a renowned pen? And why not have a drink with your favorite author? Join the Literary Factory! Miss Figaro.
Madame Figaro La Fabrique Littéraire is launched. writing workshops for its readers to learn the tricks of the trade. Refine your style and plot your first novel with advice from seasoned authors, then get up close and personal with the biggest featherweights of the moment over two exclusive evenings.
Find a voice and tone
How do we tell a story? How do you create a work of fiction from the reality of life, be it personal memories, archives or even newspaper articles? With this writing workshop, Madame Figaro offers you an introduction to the art of storytelling: existence, self, world… We’ll start with real facts and see how to put them into words; how to choose perspective, sort between elements we keep and those we discard, develop beginnings, middles and declines, work with ellipsis, create fiction, find voice and tone. It’s two sessions of 2h30 to learn how to put words together.
Novelist, essayist and screenwriter Minh Tran Hui, who is also a journalist Madame Figaro and Flammarion’s editor, will open his narrative toolbox for you to help you achieve a new story within two sessions. Has your feathers.
REGISTER FOR THE PROGRAM
Every week during the month of June, a new literary event, made in its own way. Two literary workshops followed by two evenings of inspiring exchanges with renowned authors.
The program of the first edition of the Literary Factory. Madame Figaro
The program
Writing workshop
The workshop will take place in two stages, two sessions on June 7 and 22, from 19:00 to 21:30 at the Le Figaro site. Places are limited to 20 people. During the first session you will learn different storytelling techniques and then be able to work on your first short story between the two sessions. The second session will give you the opportunity to improve your first writings thanks to the wise advice of Minh Tran Hu.
literary events
To conclude the workshop, participants are invited to two very private literary evenings with award-winning authors for inspiration and exchange.
- Exclusive invitation to the Madame Figaro Heroine Grand Prix Awards Night, June 15, 2023.
For eighteen years, Madame Figaro celebrates heroines in French and foreign literature through its literary award, which recognizes books by unique women as heroines.
See you on June 15 on the terrace of the Hotel Raphael at the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro awards night, where the winners of the 2023 edition will be announced in the presence of the prestigious jury composed of Colombe Schneck. president, Florence Loire-Kyle, Alex Lutz, Olivier Szilard, Leah Kebede, Louison, Bernard Babkin, Minh Tran Huy, devoted Nellie Garnier reader, Melanie Davoust, founder of the literary blog, and Anne Lor Vial, president of the bookstore. Here’s the brochure: @entouteslettres. Four prizes will be awarded in four categories: French novel, foreign novel, biography and graphic novel.
- Exclusive invitation to a literary meeting with two of the prize winners, 29.06.2023.
The appointment takes place on June 29 at the Ici independent bookstore on the Grands Boulevards in Paris. You’ll find two winners of the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro during the literary exchange hosted by Minh Tran Huy. The conversation will be followed by a cocktail to end this literary and festive marathon in style.
Reserve your PLACE!
Source: Le Figaro
