Best Paris Stories SPECIAL FOR SUMMER BOOK CLUBS

TWELVE STORIES ABOUT  PARIS

Best Paris Stories

ISBN-13: 978-0982369852

available now on Kindle USA, Kindle France, Kindle UK and IN PAPERBACK. 

Bookclubs please contact  parisshortstory@gmail.com for group orders

For some, Paris is home, for others, merely a dream. For Gaston, it is a bench, the anchor of his life. For Sue, a romantic city filled with scandalous, dark-eyed men, for Frank an all-consuming fire, for Mme Santinelli a ghost she'd hoped to forget. By turns humorous, bittersweet, historical or surreal, each of these carefully selected stories invites us to explore a different facet of Paris.

BEST PARIS STORIES brings together the winning short stories of the 2011 Paris Short Story Contest with works by Jeannine Alter, Bob Levy, Lisa Burkitt, Nafkote Tamirat, Marie Houzelle, Jo Nguyen, Julia Mary Lichtblau, Mary Byrne, Marie Houzelle, Jane M. Handel, and Jim Archibald.

"Exciting new voices from the winners of the 2011 Paris Short Story Contest" - Paris Writers News

Best Paris Stories is honored to be featured in the August 2012 FUSAC, France USA Contacts

France USA Contacts started out nearly 25 years ago as an eight page free classified ad publication which offered jobs and services for the English speaking public in Paris, as well as fun (and useful) language games. It now boasts 60,000 regular readers and the best distribution network in Paris.

Best Paris Stories is immensely pleased and honored to be featured in FUSAC's summer issue (page 34).  

Review "a deeply French yet idiosyncratic sensibility" Hortense on Tuesday Night

How to cope with the sexual revolution in Paris? A time when women in heterosexual couples are a "sorry, forgotten minority".  - Witty and original, Hortense on Tuesday Night introduces a remarkable new voice.

Named a "top five story" by Narrative Magazine!

“Hortense on Tuesday Nights”- had a sparse, mysterious quality which engaged me. The point of view was culturally ambiguous - and distinctly un-American - which I found refreshing. – judge Elizabeth Bard, author of Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, With Recipes

Houzelle's voice is surely unique: a deeply French yet idiosyncratic sensibility filtered through an English that's fluid, penetrating and all her own. "Hortense" takes the reader into a vividly rendered moment in feminist conscious-raising, and even more vividly into the personal perspective of a young woman exploring the new horizons and unexpected pitfalls of relationships among women. Acute, funny and unblinking. - (FIVE STARS) Amazon reviewer 

An Amazon Kindle Short Story from Best Paris Stories: 

About Marie Houzelle
Born in the south of France, Marie Houzelle writes in English. Her stories have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Pharos, Orbis, Serre-Feuilles, Van Gogh's Ear, and in the chapbook No Sex Last Noon.  She's just finished a novel, Tita, which will be released on September 15, 2014

Short Story: "Our Pharmacy" by Naftkote Tamirat

How to survive in Paris?

"...The pharmacy was Alga’s idea. She had been taking advantage of her free healthcare and a doctor with sympathy to spare by going in for various medical exams almost every week.."


Two African women invent a desperate business plan for survival: "medicine for cheap with people who understand; we don’t need papers and we don’t give them out either.” 


 "Our Pharmacy" - a short story by Nafkote Tamirat, on Amazon Kindle : France  USA  UK,  a Best Paris Stories selection

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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