Paris Short Story Contest announces titles of winning stories

We are delighted to announce that the judges have made their selection in the Paris Short Story Contest.

The following stories will be published next fall in The Best Paris Stories:

"A Pinch of Tarragon" by Lisa Burkitt

"Brazzaville" by Jo Nguyen

"Désolée, Monsieur" by Julia Mary Lichtblau

"Frank stands his ground, in Belleville" by Mary Byrne

"Hortense on Tuesday Night" by Marie Houzelle

"May" by Marie Houzelle

"My Sunday with God" by Bob Levy

"Our Pharmacy" by Nafkote Tamirat

"That Summer, with my Dad, in Paris" by Jeannine Alter

"The Baker of Vaugirard" by Jim Archibald

"The way you looked at me" by Jane M. Handel

Paris Short Story Contest to Announce Winner of Editorial Committee Prize

The Editorial Committee of the Paris Short Story Contest has two roles:

1)  select the shortlist of stories to be submitted to the finalist judges.  (The stories chosen by the 12 judges will be announced separately.)

2) choose the winner of the 200 euro Editorial Committee Prize.

Each Editorial Committee member was invited to nominate stories for the Editorial Committee prize. All of the nominated stories were then read by a sub-group of the EC which voted on the winner. 
The winner of the Paris Short Story Contest Editorial Committee Prize will be announced on Tuesday, May 24.

Members of the Editorial Committee

* Beth Arnold : Award winning writer and journalist for Rolling Stone, GQ, InStyle, Self, American Way, Premiere, and online at The Huffington Post, Salon.com and Vogue.com, Editor of Letter from Paris

* Janice Abbott: author of Meet the Press, translator and English teacher and program director. 

* Jennifer K. Dick : Author of Fluorescence and Patina, co-founder of Ivy writers series and professor of American Literature in Mulhouse University

* Mary Duncan: author of Henry Miller is Under My Bed, Professor. Founder/coordinator Paris Writers Group. Patron of the Shakespeare and Company Literary Festival,  founder of Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Moscow

* Kristin Espinasse : Author of Words in a French Life and the cult blog, French Word A Day 

* Karen Fawcett :  Publisher and editor of the widely-read e-magazine Bonjour Paris , and veteran journalist. 

* Mary Ellen Gallagher: Fiction and non-fiction writer, currently completing a novel.  MFA from Lesley University, Cambridge MA; short story awards from the US, France & Australia.

* Nancy Gerbault: Literary agent and President Abroad Writers Conferences

* Hilary Kaiser : Author of WWII Voice:  American GI's and the French Women Who Married Them, and French War Brides,  former associate professor at the University of Paris

* Dimitri Keramitas : Short story writer, reviewer,  teacher, translator, film reviews for Bonjourparis.com

* Barry Kirwan: author of The Eden Paradox, short story writer and essayist 

* Marcia Lebre : Director of the Paris Writers Workshop since 1998, MFA Bennington College

* Kai Maristed: Author of the short story collection Belong to Me and the novels Out After Dark, Fall, and Broken Ground, her fiction and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The American Voice, StoryQuarterly, The American Scholar, Zoetrope, and The Anchor Essay Annual.  Kai has taught at Emerson College and the Harvard Extension School and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program, has judged the University of Michigan Hopwood Awards and reviews frequently for The Los Angeles Times. 

* Thirza Valois : Author of Around and About Paris series,  Romantic Paris,  Aveyron, A Bridge to French Arcadia, as well as the Paris entry to the Encarta Encyclopaedia, Thirza  holds several degrees from the Sobronne, (including the most prestifious agrégation) and is an acclaimed lecturer on France. She has appeared on BBC, PBS, the Travel Channel, CNN, Discovery, the French Cultural Channel, has been aired on scores of radio stations in the US, Britain and others, and has contributed articles to The Financial Times, United Airlines' Hemispheres, Condé Nast Traveller, among other publications. 

* Christopher Vanier : Author of the memoir Caribbean Chemistry. short story writer, winner of the Paris Writers Workshop Prize and the Kingston University Life Writing Competition.

* Eve Zuckerman : Editor in chief of  L'Inébranlable, contributor to Sunday Telegraph, Ireland's Independent and Bonjourparis.com.  

The Paris Short Story Contest announces the Shortlist !

The Paris Short Story Contest 

is pleased to announce 

that 

the Editorial Committee 

has finished reading the 141 submissions from all over the world.

Stories by the following authors have been shortlisted :

Aisling Smith

Alice K. Boatwright

AM. Garner

Angie HO GUYOTON

Bob Levy

Cathy Altman Nocquet

Christine Collette

Christopher Clark

Claire Thiollent

Cynthia Tuttelman

Elizabeth Joseph Brahy

Gareth Hughes

Gwyneth Hughes

Haminuddin Mohd. Derus

Hillary Andujar

J.K. Dane

Jane Verwijs

Jeannine Alter

Jessica Chen

Jim Archibald

Jo Nguyen

Josepha Gutelius

Julia Lichtblau

Julia Mary Lichtblau

Karen Uhlmann

Landa Wo

Laure Fournier

Linda Blitstein

Lisa Burkitt

Louise Thunin

Marie Houzelle

Marin Shannahan

Martin Raim

Mary Byrne

Nafkote Tamirat

Nina Atkinson

Nuala Ní Chonchúir

Sarah Towle

Sion Dayson

Suzanne Kamata

Virginia Gilbert

Wes Lee

The shortlisted stories will now go to the twelve finalist judges.

Many thanks to all the writers who shared their stories with us, and to our hard-working Editorial Committee members who read them with great care.

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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
We accept payment through Paypal;   (click on "ajouter au panier" which means "add to basket" )

Paris Short Story Contest : flyer to print out and post !

Help us get the word out!

We now have a flyer for our Short Story Contest which you can download, print and post!   (To retrieve file click on Download Paris Short Story Contest
Many thanks to designer Peggy Ford-Fyffe King for her wonderful contribution to the Best and Most Delightful Stories About Paris ! (Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2010)

Short Story Contest About Paris !

PARIS WRITERS NEWS SHORT STORY CONTEST
Submissions have closed for BEST PARIS STORIES 

Genre: Short fiction (with 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:

Click here to submit stories

For information on Judges, click here.

PWN's short story contest about Paris: Deadline November 30 2010

Paris Writers News is launching its first contest for the Best and Most Delightful Stories aboutParis

Twelve stories will be selected for publication in a collection of short stories about Paris.

Love, hate, expectation, desire, dreams, discovery and disappointment in the world’s most beautiful city. All themes, periods and approaches will be considered.

What we’re looking for: a great story, well-told. Humor, wit and luminous prose, please apply!

All authors welcome, published and unpublished.

Ten euro entry fee.

Submission by email, in text of mail.

Deadline for submission: November 30, 2010

After a preselection by the Editorial Committee, twelve distinguished judges from the literary community will each select one story for publication.

The Best and Most Delightful Stories about Paris will be published in paperback, e-book and POD in the fall of 2011.

For more info and contest updates, go to Paris Writers News.

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
We accept payment through Paypal;   (click on "ajouter au panier" which means "add to basket" )