Still Here

Pretty sure blogging is done. We have new tools, Facebook pages and websites. The movie of the same name is over, but, we are still here. Check out WNHP 16: Food, and submit for WNHP 17, for 2020.

NYC writing party and meditation for WNHP 16

Live in NYC? Want to write and submit to the next issue but need a little nudge? The theme for WNHP 16 is FOOD. That's super easy, any personal essay or true story about eating (or struggles with), family recipes, food for thought, your last meal with your husband before you signed the divorce papers, the chicken soup the co-worker you thought hated you brought when you were sick - the list goes on. It's nice to write with people, and you get the chance to share it with the group if you wish to that day. Also included is a free copy of WNHP 15 to get you inspired and an opening meditation to get you centered. When is this?

NOV 17 - 1 day only - 3-5pm.  RSVP: neverhaveparis@gmail.com

The end of the East Village

We are packing up and moving out of 315 E 5th Street. This marks the end of almost 11 years living in the East Village. We moved to the East Village after just 1 year on the upper west side, which I moved into because a friend gave me her fully-furnished, rent stabilized apartment. I didn't plan on leaving after just one year, but once the move was on, we started looking all over town. I didn't think the East Village was affordable, but Jon showed me that it really was. If you were already going to pay 1,400, 1,500 for an apartment, why not spend just a few hundred more to live where you wanted to? I had to adjust to the mentality of not looking for just the cheapest possible place.

After two years on E 6th St in a 2nd-floor walk-up studio apartment, where the only room with a door was the bathroom, we found a great 1-bedroom with the same realty company just one block away, 315 E 5th. Equidistant to 4 different train lines, it nicely connected the East Village to almost anywhere you wanted to go, plus situated on a quiet block between 2nd and 1st ave. Also, with an elevator and laundry in the basement. It was heaven. Living here gave me walking distance to everywhere I wanted to be like Cafe Mogador, Sidewalk Cafe, Mercury Lounge, Sunshine Cinema and the Angelika, the KGB Bar and Kraine Theater and all the places I didn't know yet but then discovered, some of which are gone, like St. Mark's Bookstore where Margarita would always pay me in cash for sold zines even though I was sure I was being over paid. I even had the WNHP Greatest Hits reading at St. Mark's. I felt like a literary star.

Living in the East Village allowed me to do community things I may not have done if I didn't live here, like volunteer as the zine buyer at Bluestockings Bookstore (10 min walk), take up acting with Middle Players Community Actors (5 min walk), join East Yoga with Lu and meet instructor Rian Bodner and rediscover yoga and my body. I've enjoyed biking around the hood, sometimes not leaving the area all weekend. Biking over the Williamsburg bridge was just far enough to be a safe adventure.

We have done a lot with an apartment this size. On the one hand, you fight less, because there is no where to go and sulk. I had enough room to have a crafting table in the hallway/kitchen for when I was an active clock maker and craft fair and Etsy seller. We have hosted small parties and game nights, had a few friends on the living room floor. We love the East Village and while I am looking forward to owning, to a larger apartment that we can design, I am going to miss the neighborhood and the history terribly. It's been fun to go through books and things while packing and moving.

   

WNHP 15 America

WNHP 15, America, submissions deadline approaches

We are working on issue no. 15. The theme is America. Thank you for your support over the years. We are still the only lit journal in zine format dedicated to the personal essay. Think print version of The Moth without the funding and egos. Or, think WNHP, here for you, independent, since 2007.

Submit your nonfiction essay of 1,200 words or less to: neverhaveparis@gmail.com   you will always get a personal reply

Pete's Mini Zine Fest July 8

WNHP 14 is on it's way

We'll Never Have Paris goes into its 9th year of publication with WNHP 14: AWAY. A continued celebration of nonfiction stories, WNHP remains the only zine dedicated to publishing a memoir literary journal in zine format.  We will host a reading in February in San Francisco, TBD and in March at Bluestockings Books in New York City (where I am the zine buyer).  Stay tuned for a list of authors and participants in this year's melancholic issue.

PMZF July 30 2016

@zinenation
@petesmzf
@petescandystore

PMZF 2016 at Pete's Candy Store
PMZF 2016 July 30

Zinesfests I will be at

Asheville Zine Fest May 1

Ottawa Zine Fest June 4

Pete's Mini Zine Fest July 30

WNHP 13 - West Coast goes to print April 2016

The new issue, with co-editor Jaime Borshuck is called West Coast. Goes to print this week.

Writers are:
Jaime Borschuk
Dave Cole
Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty
Albert Sidewalk
Lisa Alexia
Joshua James Amberson
Erin Wilson

Cover art by Colette Hannahan