Songwriting and creative writing workshops, masterclasses, and community events for Anglophones in Paris, France.
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Atelier Rose is a dedicated creative community for Anglophones in Paris, where writers, songwriters, and artists meet to develop serious work in a welcoming, inspiring space. We offer small, high-quality workshops, masterclasses, events, and creative gatherings led by award-winning, widely published artists and educators working at the top of their fields. Atelier Rose is a space for dedicated creatives who care about developing craft, refining voice, and cultivating meaningful connection.
Songwriting / We offer semester-long, small-group, in-person workshops each spring and fall by submission, as well as specialized intensives/masterclasses throughout the year. Our programs are for songwriters of all genres and experience levels and offer the intimacy and focus of individual mentorship within a supportive, inspiring community.
Become part of our dedicated group of songwriters seeking to elevate their work through critical feedback, mutual accountability, and tailored feedback from peers, visiting artists, and workshop leader, award-winning singer-songwriter Lindsay Kay.
Creative Writing / We offer semester-long, small-group, advanced workshops each spring and fall by submission, as well as specialized intensives/masterclasses throughout the year. We welcome emerging Anglophone writers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, screenwriting, and playwriting.
Join a small cohort of serious, dedicated writers and elevate your work through detailed peer workshopping, intensive written feedback, and one-on-one mentorship from award-winning, widely published writers. Plus, focused teachings on craft in each meeting, all within a supportive, inspiring community.
Led by
Lindsay
Kay
[Songwriting Atelier]
Founder and director of Atelier Rose, Canadian singer-songwriter Lindsay Kay creates music that is “ethereal, melancholy, and dabbles in unreality while keeping gracefully attached to this world,” says New Sick Music.
In 2018, the Berklee College of Music graduate released her debut, full-length album For the Feminine, by the Feminine – an 8-song meditation on themes of femininity, written and produced solely by Kay herself. For the Feminine won Kay an Independent Music Award for her rendition of Billy Strayhorn’s jazz standard “Lush Life.” The music video for her song “Too” was an award-winner and/or official selection in over a dozen international film festivals. For the Feminine has been called “a manifesto of solidarity and inclusion,” by No Depression and “a record that gives comfort in hearing one’s own experiences mirrored back, and there is solace in knowing we are not alone in our pain and restlessness,” by For Folk’s Sake.
Kay has staged multimedia performances all over North America and Europe, incorporating movement, stage design, and elaborate costuming into her concerts. She has artistic-directed and/or directed each of her numerous music videos, and is passionate about marrying visuals to music.
She has been an artist in residence at JIWAR Creation & Society in Barcelona, The Banff Creative Arts Centre in Alberta, Canada, La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts in Burgundy, France, and Les Arches Citoyennes in Paris, France. She has received grants from FACTOR, SOCAN Foundation, and The Canada Council for the Arts many times over to compose new music, develop recording projects and collaborative performances, and carry out independent research on the work and impact of the work of women in the singer-songwriter tradition.
In 2022, she completed her Master’s in Creative Writing at the University of Kent: Paris School of Arts and Culture and has since participated in numerous masterclasses, workshops, and trainings in creative writing, developing her practice as a non-fiction writer alongside her career as a musician.
She is currently based in Paris, France where she is at work on her next full-length album and a memoir project, and where she directs Atelier Rose.
Visit her website HERE.
Heather Hartley &
Nina-Marie Gardner
[Creative Writing Atelier]
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 as well as numerous anthologies including Food and Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast and Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House.
She has taught creative writing at the University of Kent’s (UK) Paris School of Arts and Culture, the American University of Paris and the University of Texas El Paso MFA program and she has been a teacher of Atelier Rose’s Creative Writing Workshop since its inception. She is at work on a novel and her third collection of poetry.
Visit her website HERE.
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Nina-Marie Gardner is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter based in Paris. A graduate of Yale University, her short stories, essays, and reviews have been published in Necessary Fiction, The Menteur, 3AM Magazine, The Fix, The Frisky, Flavorpill, and the anthologies Bedford Square and 3AM London, New York, Paris.
Her debut novel Sherry & Narcotics was published by Future Fiction London in 2011, and the stage adaptation was selected for the Arcola Theatre’s inaugural PlayWROUGHT Festival. A recipient of the Royal Holloway International Excellence Award and a Crossland Research Fellowship, she holds a PhD in Drama and Theatre and served as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Drama, Theatre & Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London from 2014-2018. She has also served as a lecturer for the University of Kent’s MA Creative Writing program, Sciences Po’s Master’s in Media and Communications, and the Playwriting Intensive workshop at the National Theatre in London. Her plays have been staged in London and Edinburgh, and she co-wrote the short film Speakeasy with director Alex Browning, which premiered at the Hospital Club 10 Awards and was bought by ShortsTV. She has served on the Reader’s Panel for the National Theatre in London, the First Pages Prize, the Verity Bargate Playwriting Award, and the Colchester Theatre Mercury/Weinberger Playwriting Award.
Her feature film script AGNES GRACE was selected for the 2022 Stowe Story Labs, and her 1-hour drama television pilot A CERTAIN AGE was a finalist in the Los Angeles Film Awards and a Screencraft and Vail Film Fest quarterfinalist.
She recently completed her second novel, Margery.
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