[Meditations in an Emergency w/ MOMTAZA MEHRI]
Date: July 3-5, 2026
Time: Friday, 17h30-20h; Saturday & Sunday, 10h30-16h30
Location: In-person @ Atelier Rose (Paris 20e, metro Alexandre Dumas)
Price: €295-425 sliding-scale (early bird until May 10)
Write from the edge of uncertainty in an intimate Paris intensive with award-winning poet Momtaza Mehri
about the workshop
Paris has long nurtured fleeing writers. The city’s history as a refuge for exiles and outcasts reveals itself in fading plaques, cobbled alleyways, and rose-strewn tombstones. Personal and political crises drove many to Paris, an urbanscape of ruin and reinvention.
How do you maintain an independence of vision and thought during urgent, unpredictable times? How can we use our voices as instruments of expression, clarity, and courage? These questions persist.
In this spirit, Meditations in an Emergency is a chance to experiment and stretch across form and genre, grappling with our contemporary reality of livestreamed, algorithm-mediated crisis.
This workshop will be a generous space to reflect on your writing practice, and just as importantly, your intentions. Join us as we think and write from the edge, guided by instinct and inquiry.
For writers and poets across all genres and experience levels
Friday July 3rd
5:30 PM – 8 PM
Saturday & Sunday July 4th & 5th
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM, one-hour lunch break, 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
In person @ Atelier Rose, Paris 20e (metro Alexandre Dumas)
*Maximum 10 participants*
pricing
EARLY BIRD (enroll before May 10):
1. Supported rate: 295 euros
[For those with financial constraints or instability]
2. Standard rate: 345 euros
[Reflects the true cost of the program and sustains Atelier Rose]
3. Community supporter rate: 395 euros
[For those able to pay more to help keep the atelier accessible to others]
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REGULAR PRICE (enroll after May 10):
1. Supported rate: 325 euros
[For those with financial constraints or instability]
2. Standard rate: 375 euros
[Reflects the true cost of the program and sustains Atelier Rose]
3. Community supporter rate: 425 euros
[For those able to pay more to help keep the atelier accessible to others]
Reach out to contact@atelierroseparis.com if cost is a barrier for you.
We are happy to offer payment plans and discuss options to help make your participation possible. 
your teacher
Momtaza Mehri
Momtaza Mehri is a writer and researcher working across poetry, criticism, education, and radio. Previously, she was the Poet-in-Residence at Homerton College, University of Cambridge.
She has been a columnist for Tate Etc, the arts magazine published by the Tate network of galleries. Her debut poetry collection Bad Diaspora Poems won the 2023 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, as well as an Eric Gregory Prize.
She is a recipient of a Somerset Maugham Award and a Sky Arts Award. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the prestigious Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
Her pamphlet Doing the Most with the Least was published by Goldsmiths Press.
Mehri is a former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London. She regularly works with international institutions and museums, including Tate Modern, Hayward Gallery, AA School of Architecture, MoMA, University of Arts London, Alserkal Arts Foundation, Dutch Art Institute, ICA, and elsewhere. She has also presented papers, lectures, and workshops in Jakarta, New York, Berlin, Dubai, Tunis, Amsterdam, to name a few cities.
Enroll
Only 10 spots available. Payment link will be removed once full.
Once you have paid and confirmed your place, you will be sent a confirmation email within 24 hours with further information.
Email contact@atelierroseparis.com with any questions or inquiries you may have.
Refund policy:
Our masterclasses are intentionally small and our guest teachers travel to Paris to lead them. For this reason, we are unfortunately unable to offer refunds once payment has been processed.