Paris Short Story Contest : deadline November 30 !

PARIS WRITERS NEWS SHORT STORY CONTEST


SUBMISSIONS HAVE CLOSED FOR BEST PARIS STORIES: BOOK COMING OUT FALL 2011 !

Genre: Short fiction (story must have some link to Paris)

Closing date: 30 November 2010

Prize: 200 euros for first prize, plus publication of twelve best stories

Entry fee: 10 euros

Restrictions: Maximum 5 000 words. Submission in the body of the email only

Further information: 12 stories will be selected to appear in the book: “BEST AND MOST DELIGHTFUL STORIES ABOUT PARIS” to be published fall 2011

Internet site for details and updates: http://parisstoriescontest.blogspot.com/

The finalist judges are :

• Nicola Keegan (author of Swimming),
• Janet Skeslien Charles (author of Moonlight in Odessa),
• Elizabeth Bard (author of Lunch in Paris),
• Charles Trueheart (Director of the American Library in Paris),
• Charles and Clydette De Groot (of the De Groot Foundation),
• Cara Black (author of the Aimée LeDuc mystery series),
• Anne Korkeakivi (short stories published in The Atlantic, The Yale Review…),
• Heather Stimmler Hall (author of Naughty Paris and Secrets of Paris),
• Penelope Fletcher (owner of the Red Wheelbarrow bookstore in Paris),
• Robert Stewart (editor of the New Letters literary review),
• Diane Johnson (author of Le Divorce, Le Marriage, National Book Award Finalist)! 

For info and submissions:  http://parisstoriescontest.blogspot.com/

Download flyer:   http://laurelzuckerman.typepad.fr/files/paris-short-story-contest.pdf 

To submit your short story, please send your text IN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL (no attachments, no links) to  : pariswritersnews  AT  gmail  DOT  com
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