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Montmartre Workshop will hold workshops from September 13 to September 17 for fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers, October 25 to October 29 for poets, and November 22 to November 26 for translators in the historic atelier of Toulouse-Lautrec in the Montmartre neighborhood in Paris. Programming includes workshops with fresh pastries, discussions, readings, a craft lesson, a visit to the Shakespeare and Co. bookshop, and a group dinner. The faculty for the September 13 to September 17 workshop includes fiction and creative nonfiction writer Colombe Schneck.
Montmartre Workshop, 7 rue Tourlaque, Paris, France 75018.
In a recent New York Times Magazine article, Nitsuh Adebe speaks with a linguist about the ways in which words evolve over time, noting recent shifts in the use of terms like “POV” and “aesthetic,” especially in social media posts. “How people use a language is what the language is, and most everything we do in an effort to steer one another’s usage—teaching grammar, mocking errors, writing columns—is just an exercise of social power,” writes Abebe. Compose a poem that incorporates a word or phrase that has gained a new meaning in contemporary use, possibly through the rapidly changing landscape of language mediated, distorted, or abbreviated in texting and social media. What sorts of ingenuity, misinterpretation, and customization propelled your selection from its original definition to a new one? How might using it in a new poetic context subject it to an additional layer of meaning?
In this virtual interview, Griffin Poetry Prize trustee Ian Williams speaks with poet Kevin Young about how Dante’s Divine Comedy inspired his collection Night Watch (Knopf, 2025), for which he won the 2026 international Griffin Poetry Prize.
The Central Coast Writers’ Conference will be held on September 25 and September 26 at the Cuesta College San Luis Obispo, California, campus. Programming includes master classes, breakout sessions, panels, meet and greets, keynote addresses, and book signings for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers.
Central Coast Writers’ Conference, P.O. Box 8106, San Luis Obispo, CA 93403. (805) 610-4252. Meagan Friberg, Director.
The Atticus Hotel Artist-in-Residency Program offers residencies of four days, one week, or two weeks from November 15 to April 1 at the Atticus Hotel in downtown McMinnville, Oregon, to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Residents are provided a room with a fireplace, complementary espresso, and other hotel amenities including a fitness room and the option to use the drawing room or board room as a work space. One meal credit a day at the hotel’s onsite Mediterranean-inspired restaurant, Cypress, is provided. Travel and other expenses are not included.
Atticus Hotel Artist-in-Residency Program, 375 NE Ford Street, McMinnville, OR 97128. (503) 472-1975. Erin Stephenson, Co-owner.
