Creative Writing Master Class with Colombe Schneck

This master class will be composed of workshops in English taking place on the following days: Wednesdays - January 4, 11, 18, 25 from 19h - 21h, and Saturday, January 28th, from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.. The total cost for these sessions is 600€. *

Participants will also explore how best to mine their own lives for material to write fiction. Emphasis will be placed on writing with simplicity.

If you have any questions about the master class, please email parisadministration.cgc@columbia.edu.

* The master class is subject to cancellation if we receive less than six participants. In this case, all fees will be refunded.

Instructor bio:

Colombe Schneck is a French writer, journalist, director of documentary films, and swimmer. She swam in all 46 municipal swimming pools in Paris for her most recent work titled Paris à la nage (Allary editions). She was born in 1966 in Paris where she was raised and still lives. She is currently working on a new novel which will be published by Grasset in 2023 and writing a weekly column about her reading for Madame Figaro. She has directed four documentary films, authored eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, and has received prizes from the Académie Française, Madame Figaro and the Society of French Writers, as well as having been short-listed for the Renaudot, Femina, and Interallié prizes. She is the recipient of scholarships from the Villa Medicis in Rome and the Institut Français. She received the Stendhal grant, which helps writers do research and write abroad, for a novel about women in Bolivia.