2025 Paris Writing Workshop Beginner students Marek Garcia and Julia Atkinson swept the top two prizes in the “Travel Memoir” category of the 2026 Solas Awards. The Solas Awards, now in their 21st year, honor excellence in travel writing. Garcia’s Namibia essay “My Crazy Idea” won Gold in the Travel Memoir category, and Atkinson’s Nepal […]
Above: 2025 Paris Writing Workshop Advanced Travel Memoir participants, pictured here at Square du Vert-Galant, near Pont Neuf: Back row: Steven Brichant, Tommy Beard, Rolf Potts, Everett O’Flaherty, Travis Collier. Front row: Chris Barclay, Julie Pesano, Kiki Bush, Pamm McFadden, Karen Pearson, Erin Henk, Xylia Buros, Jon DeHart. [Not pictured: Julie Callahan, Mike Fong, Mark […]
Above: 2025 Paris Writing Workshop Screenwriting participants, pictured here in the Louvois classroom: Back row: Kiki Bush, Rolf Potts, Jason Ley, Xylia Buros, Andrew Tzembelicos, Mike Fong, Ali Shadjareh. Middle row: Rasa Gundersen, Cathleen Freedman, Kim Krizan, Marian Wymore, Sarah Dubrovsky, Sophie Fohrafellner. Front row: Jonathan Santiago (foreground), Nicole Foley, Rebecca Benoit, Iris Johnson, Julie […]
Above: 2025 Paris Writing Workshop Beginner Travel Memoir participants, pictured here in the Tuileries Garden of central Paris: Back row: Conner McBee, Sarah Okeefe, Jonathan Gray, Leonardo Coelho, Rob Campbell, Rolf Potts, Victor Chen, Marek Garcia, Julia Atkinson, Stephanie Andrews; Front row: Julie Pesano, Zahabiya Nuruddin, Julie Miller, Alia Sabino, Kiki Bush, Helen Farrell, Oliver […]
Above: 2024 Paris Writing Workshop reunion class Travel Memoir participants, pictured here at Quai Saint-Bernard, on the Seine River: Back row: Everett O’Flaherty, Jack Baker, Rolf Potts, JJ Damin, Jasmine Richardson, Tom Folinus, Julie D’Angelo; Front row: Kelly Hickler, Dave Sims, Audrey Sims, Steven Doerhoff, Julie Pesano, Kiki Bush, Chris Englert, Pamm McFadden.
Above: 2024 Paris Writing Workshop “reunion” Travel Memoir participants, pictured here in the Palais-Royal: Rolf Potts, Kiki Bush, Renee Ozburn, Dan Winter, Karen Pearson, Matt Savino, Joe Donlevy, Erin Henk, Sean Lawlor, Eddy L. Harris, Xylia Buros, Stephen Brichant.
Above: 2023 Paris Writing Workshop August Travel Memoir participants, pictured here at Le Rubis wine bar in the First Arrondissement: Jacob Harkham, Matthew Nelson, Adam Lee, Jimmy Wohl, Rick Sturgis, Jessica Baltzersen, Susan Williamson, Travis Rathbone, Greg Marchand, Diana Cabrera, John Jaeger.
Above: 2023 Paris Writing Workshop reunion class Travel Memoir participants, pictured here in the Jardin des Tuileries: Emma Morrell, David Bishop, Travis Collier, Julie Pesano, Ryan Wahl, Kelly Woyan, Mark Clackum, Renee Ozburn, Rolf Potts, Kiki Bush, Eddy L. Harris, Adrielle Knight, Stephen Brichant, Matt Savino, Erin Henk, Xylia Buros.
Above: 2023 Paris Writing Workshop July Travel Memoir participants, pictured here in our classroom space near the Palais-Royal: Rolf Potts, Anita Jetzer , Sameer Srivastav, Josh Wigget, Rebecca Levenberg, Laura Sardo, Collette Stohler, Kevin Sullivan, Sophia Bentaher, Kim Tamalonis, Travis Collier, Joe Donlevy, Caroline Frick.
Above: 2022 Paris Writing Workshops August Travel Memoir participants, pictured here at the Basilica of Sacré Coeur de Montmartre: Xylia Buros, Justine Miller, Kristi Evans, Rolf Potts, Julie Pesano, D.J. Winter, Jasmin Shah, Jonathan DeHart, Matt Savino, Sebastian Walls-Austin, Margaret Wagner.