The role of this committee is to set up a pilot group to prepare and organize the “Rencontres des maisons d'écrivain et des patrimoines littéraires.” every two years. It also establishes a thematic programme for the coming years. In collaboration with the Publications committee, it designs the proceedings and the promotion documents for the conference.
The next"Rencontres" are prepared for November 2020 in Bourges on the topic: New digital tools for writers' houses.
Person in charge: Alain Tourneux.
This committee controls the edition of the newsletter (“Bulletin d’informations”) twice a year and all publications related to the Federation’s works. And also the electronic "Infolettre" every month. It alos manages the website. It is thinking about a cooperation with other European countries, particularly in order to set up a real network for European writers' houses on the web.
Person in charge : Gérard Martin.
This committee aims at promoting the relationship between writers’ houses and literary places which develop educational activities with their counterparts in the National Education service. A Guide of educational activities: directions for use, composed of a series of technical slides about the possible supports, the institutional framework and how to prepare an educational project in a writer’s house is readable on this website.
It is currently working on the new general lines issued by the Ministry of Education concerning artistic and cultural education.
Person in charge : Caroline Casseville.
This committee is sleeping for the time being. Its aims were :
This committee was born in 2003 and received positive answers from our foreign counterparts for participating at the “Rencontres” 2004. Since then, an active cooperation is going on with Spain and Portugal. The Federation has links with several places abroad: Dr Johnson’s House in London, the Latvian Literature Centre in Riga, the Petöfi Museum in Budapest which works for the promotion of the Hungarian literary patrimony (website: http://www.emlekhazak.hu), the Literature House of Quebec which became a member in 2008. It is also member of the International Committee of Literary Museums. In 2010 it organized, in partnership with Russia, a great exhibition about French and Russian writers' houses in Moscow.
It is now looking at building a network of writers' houses in Europe.
Person in charge :
This committee was set up at the end of 2007. Its first mission: to pilot a study about the visitors of writers’ houses and literary places in France. This (qualitative) study about the public’s motivations was conducted in 2008 with twelve voluntary houses. The (quantitative) inquiry about the number of visitors in such places has been run at the same time. The results of both were published for the “Xth Rencontres de Bourges”.
This committee then collected information about activities proposed to the visitors (except pupils), to put them at the disposal of tourists and literary places’ managers on this site. It now works on the opportunity for the Federation to help the small writers’ houses to provide their shops through grouped orders, on means to improve the visit of the literary place, and on the French label Qualité Tourisme.
Person in charge: .
Created in 2009, to precise the position of the Federation regarding the regional networks initiated by local public authorities in France and to think about the opportunity for the Federation to create regional structures. It proposed a modification of the Federation’s statutes and a general project for regional statutes which were adopted by the special general assembly on April 23, 2010. We have 3 regional networks working today : Hauts-de-France, Centre Val de Loire and Nouvelle Aquitaine. 3 new networks in 2019 : Ile-de-France, Normandy and South.
Persons in charge : Bénédicte Duthion, David Labreure, Alain Lecomte, Jean-Claude Ragot, Geneviève Tricottet and Jacqueline Ursch.
Research
Last committee created in 2014, to strengthen the Federation's links with universities and students on the topic writers' houses and literature.
Person in charge: Jean-Claude Ragot.
Meeting days
A committee was born in 2016 to scientifically manage the annual meeting days in different parts on France.
Members : Christian Morzewski, Yves Pezilla, Bernard Sourice, Jacqueline Ursch.
In order to reach all its aims and to meet the needs of its members, the Federation fosters cooperation between literary places and organizes study and discovery trips in the writers’ houses along with its general meeting: