The Brouzils Seminars and Workshops. A series of small, unique, fully accredited, limited-term residency and mentorship programs intended for serious participants who wish to work in collaboration with accomplished professionals in a pleasant setting well away from the familiar surroundings of everyday life.
The 2010-2011 series offers the traditional July 
workshops, along with individual mentorships and fellowships for those who wish to complete works-in-progress with professional guidance. There’s an ongoing memoir-writing project for those with a private tale to tell. And of course there are our individual retreats for practically anyone with an unmet creative ambition.
Tripp-Turner at Brouzils. For 2010, there’s a new family entertainment book-and-film writing program: The Tripp-Turner Workshops. Children’s lit, screenplays, family-oriented web projects are the focuses of these powerful and goal-driven workshops guided by Jenny Tripp and Priscilla Turner, veteran children’s book authors (Harper Collins, FSG) and screenwriters who bring to Brouzils their substantial experience with Disney, Columbia Pictures, HBO and others. Includes a two-day history of animation festival. Limited space!
The Brouzils Seminars.
The Brouzils programs are led by men and women who have demonstrated considerable accomplishment in the areas they teach: Screenwriting, poetry, fiction, journalism and creative non-fiction, documentary films, children’s literature, illustration, memoir and political commentary. Harry Stein, Jenny Tripp, Denis Boyles, Joe Kita, Priscilla Turner, Alain Hertoghe and Dominique Torrès are among those who lead workshops, discussions, seminars, individual mentorships and panels. For details, visit our faculty index page.
Location: The seminars meet in the small, private chateau opposite the village church in the heart of the Vendean bocage. Additional workshop courses meet in the early 19th century seminary building in a nearby village. In addition to those rooms provided as part of the seminar and workshop fees, there is wide range of comfortable, attractive alternative accommodations available in the immediate area.
By rural train, the village is about 30 minutes from Nantes and about an hour from the beautiful beaches of the Vendéen coast. TGV trains connect Nantes with Paris and the outside world.
For dates, fees, faculty and other details about the Institute’s programs and seminars, please click one of the following announcements.
NOTES ON 2010 WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS.
Enrollment is strictly limited. Space and accommodations by individual arrangement are provided once admissions requirements have been met. Sessions are accredited for both graduates and undergraduates by our American academic partner, Fort Hays State University.
JULY :: The Summer Seminars. The major seminars:Poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and screenwriting. Additional discussion groups for travel, wine and food writers, novelists, screenwriters, memoirists, journalists, documentarians, political commentators and essayists. Two sessions, two weeks each. Sessions may be combined. Graduate and undergraduate credits. NOTE: Registration for 2010 sessions one and two now open.
JULY-AUGUST:: The Tripp-Turner Workshops. Children’s lit, screenwriting and family entertainment: An intensive, two-week series of workshops, films, presentations and seminars led by Brouzils faculty members Priscilla Turner (Columbia Pictures, The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants, Cosby Mysteries, others) and Jenny Tripp (Lion King, Prince and the Pauper, Babe, The Trouble with Angels, others).
The Tripp-Turner Workshops begin at the end of July and continue through the first two weeks in August. Registration for the 2010 workshops now open.
APRIL | JUNE | AUGUST | OCTOBER :: The Brouzils Memoir-writing Project. A two-week, goal-oriented program for writers of personal, literary non-fiction – and our most popular workshop. Successful participants will be given help preparing a brief project description before arrival. Once in residence, they will meet a series of specific daily deadlines and leave two weeks later with a full working plan for their books, including an outline and a professional proposal, and at least one completed chapter. Space is extremely limited; very small seminars (maximum: five) allow for individual consultation and collaboration. Ideal for those who need help launching a book project in a way that’s likely to lead to successful completion. On-going mentorships available.
SUMMER :: The Chavagnes Great Books Conversation. We are once again co-sponsoring this extraordinary program with our neighbors at Chavagnes International College. The 2009 conversation featured Prof. Anthony O’Hear, Garfield Weston Professor of Philosophy at Buckingham University, the director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and an editor of one of the Brouzils Institute’s journals, The Fortnightly Review. The Conversation this year will again feature an evening at the Brouzils chateau with Seminars director Denis Boyles.
Individual private, mentored retreats. Limited space for working writers and artists is available. One-week minimums apply.
Other programs may be added to this list. To be advised of changes and additions, please contact us by email: info @ brouzils.org.
