Best Paris Stories

and the winner is.... Best Paris Stories ebook cover contest

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:43:00 +0000

After long and tortured consideration of many excellent submissions, we have selected the cover for the ebook edition of Best Paris Stories, to be released in May 2012.

Congratulations to graphic designer Lydia D'moch!

BEST PARIS STORIES launch May 29, 2012 at The American Library in Paris

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:29:00 +0000

details coming soon!

Last Submissions for Best Paris Stories Ebook Cover contest!

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:27:00 +0000

Last day for submissions to the Cover Contest for Best Paris Stories ! Here are the latest additions to the many excellent designs we have received from talented artists. Might one of these be the cover? Many thanks to the fine graphic artists for their excellent work: William Busch, Micheal Dekel, Jonathan Freedman, Margo Berdeshevsky, Lee E. Shilo, Naofimi Hojin, Pascal Nocquet, Lydia D'moch, Ryssa Mae Allercon, Sophie Ren, Louisa Gioffre Suziki, Bas Zwigtman, Sarah Nocquet, Sharon Watts, and Bob Bouwense. We invite you to enjoy their creativity and watch this space for more …

Naofimi Hojin 2

Bas Zwigtman

Sharon Watts

Pascal Nocquet

Bob Bouwense

Sarah Nocquet

Lydia D'moch 1

Naofimi Hojin

Lydia D'moch 2

William Busch

Ryssa Mae Alercon

Sophie Ren

Margo Berdeshevsky 1

Louisa Gioffre Suzuki

Micheal Dekel

Jonathan Freedman

Margo Berdeshevsky 2

Lee E. Shilo

Jonathan Freedman

Margo Berdeshevsky 3

See: list of short story winners

See: Judges and Editorial Committee

See Submission Guidelines for Ebook Cover Contest

Announcing the Paris Short Story Cover Contest…

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:24:00 +0000

Calling artists and graphic designers…

Help us create the front cover for the ebook of BEST PARIS STORIES!

The winners of the Paris Short Story Contest have been selected, the book is nearly ready. Only one thing remains: the cover.

The winning submission will receive 100 euros and see his/her creation used as the official cover for the BEST PARIS STORIES ebook, on Kindle, Ipad, Nook, Sony, etc…

Attention: BEST PARIS STORIES comes out this fall. The deadline is short.

Submission guidelines

Title: Best Paris Stories

( See Paris Short Story website for more information-- list of authors, titles and judges)
Format: JPG

Dimensions front cover : 5 x 8 in or 203 x 127 mm*

Minimum Resolution : 300 dpi

Maximum file size: 20 MB per image. (Large files risk rejection by email servers)

Filename : should be your name.

Rights: You must own the rights to all images submitted and be willing to authorize display of your submission as will as a release for use in BEST PARIS STORIES.

You should also obtain a release for any recognizable person in any photograph

Send JPG file, to parisshortstory@gmail.com, put “Cover Contest” as the subject

· Best cover wins 100 € and will be used for the BEST PARIS STORIES ebook

· Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2011.

*Artists of shortlisted covers will receive specifications for the BEST PARIS STORIES paperback cover, with template including front, back and spine.

· Shortlisted covers and Honorable Mentions will be featured on our website and social media.

Story summaries (for inspiration)

“The Pharmacy” – Ruled by someone else’s whims and habits, a man opens a black-market pharmacy looking towards the day he may break free.

“May” – A married woman flirts with her professor with help from Henry James.

“Brazzaville” – Raised amid unrelenting praise for the French, a man finds himself a Congolese refugee in Paris.

“A Pinch of Tarragon” – Meek Sophie’s monotonous routine as a waitress changes when she encounters a man who teaches her to appreciate food, and thus, life.

“Desolée Monsieur” – After the death of his father, a young man returns to Paris to reclaim his ancestral apartment.

“Frank Stands His Ground in Belleville” – Frank considers the value of things in his life as his apartment building goes up in flames.

“Hortense on Tuesday Night” – A group of women meet weekly to discuss intellectual matters, frivolous things, and their lovers until the glamorous Hortense upsets their routine.

“The Way You Looked At Me” – A newcomer to Paris unknowingly disarms men with her smile

“The Baker of Vaugirard” – A bench in the Tuilieries anchors a man’s life.

"That Summer With My Dad, In Paris” – An adolescent girl, jaded since the death of her mother, travels to Paris with her father.

"My Sunday with God"

Paris Short Story Contest announces titles of winning stories

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0000

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 announces winner of the Editorial Committee Prize

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:00:00 +0000

We are delighted to announce that the winner

of the

Editorial Committee Prize

for the

Paris Short Story Contest

is:

DESOLEE MONSIEUR

Julia Mary Lichtblau

Stories Nominated for the prize were:

MY SUNDAY WITH GOD by Bob Levy

I THINK THEREFORE I AM by Haminudhin Mohd Derus

TANGO by Julia Lichtblau

THE CONVERSATION by Virginia Gilbert

DESOLEE MONSIEUR by Julia Lichtblau

A VOIR by Nina Atkinson

SPARE LOVER by Marie Houzelle

GETTING THERE by Cathy Altman Nocquet

TRACES by Christopher Clark

LOVE THY FRENCH NEIGHBORS by Angie Ho Guyoton

THE KINE AND SARKOZY by Martin Raim

A PINCH OF TARRAGON by Lisa Burkitt

WOMAN, BLOSSOMING by Susanne Kamata

The winning stories selected by the finalist judges will be announced on Tuesday.

(Click on SHORTLIST to see the list of stories under consideration)

Paris Short Story Contest to Announce Winner of Editorial Committee Prize

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:40:00 +0000

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 !

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:57:00 +0000

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.

To follow news and updates on writers in Paris:
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Twitter: @pariswriters

Paris Short Story Contest : deadline November 30 !

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:03:00 +0000

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 !

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 04:36:00 +0000

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 !

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:22:00 +0000

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.

Judges Named for Short Story Contest about Paris

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:12:00 +0000

Paris Writers News is honored to welcome

the twelve distinguished Judges for the Short Story Contest

Nicola Keegan

Nicola Keegan's debut novel, Swimming, was named one of 2009's top ten novels by Time. Nicola divides her time between Ireland and France with her husband and three children.

Penelope Fletcher

Penelope Fletcher is from an island off the west coast of Canada. She opened her first bookshop at 19 on the island and worked in bookshops in Vancouver and Montreal, before moving to Paris in 1990. She runs The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore in the marais district in Paris.

Anne Korkeakivi

Anne Korkeakivi’s short fiction has been published by The Atlantic, The Yale Review, The Bellevue Review, and other magazines. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times (UK), the Village Voice, Ms., Gourmet, and Travel & Leisure, among numerous other periodicals in North America and Europe. She lived in France for ten years.

Diane Johnson

Born in Moline, Illinois, Johnson's recent books include Lulu in Marrakech (2008), L'Affaire (2004), Le Mariage (2000), and Le Divorce (1997) for which she was a National Book Award finalist and the winner of the California Book Awards gold medal for fiction.

She has been a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books since the mid 1970s. With filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, Johnson co-authored the screenplay to The Shining (1980) based on the horror novel of the same name written by Stephen King.

In 2003, a movie version of her comedy of manners novel Le Divorce was released, directed by James Ivory and starring Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts.

Johnson currently divides her time between homes in Paris and San Francisco.

Elizabeth Bard

Elizabeth Bard is an American journalist and author based in Paris. Her first book, Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes has been a New York Times and international bestseller, and was selected as a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" pick for Spring 2010. Bard's writing on food, art, travel and digital culture has appeared in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Wired, Haper's Bazaar and The Huffington Post. You can follow Elizabeth's continuing culinary adventures on her blog,facebook and twitter pages: www.elizabethbard.com, www.facebook.com/LunchinParis, www.twitter.com/ElizabethBard

Janet Skeslien Charles

Janet Skeslien Charles' debut novel Moonlight in Odessa (Bloomsbury) was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of their top ten debut novels of Fall 2009 and received for the Melissa Nathan Award. It was chosen as Book of the Month by National Geographic Traveler. BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime featured Moonlight in Odessa. Language rights have been sold in 12 countries. Janet has led writing workshops at the American Library in Paris, WICE, and Shakespeare & Co and is currently working on her second novel.

Heather Stimmer-Hall

Heather Stimmler-Hall is an American-born travel writer, tour guide and editor living in Paris since 1995. She created the monthly Secrets of Paris Newsletter in 1999, and is a freelance contributor for many guidebooks, magazines and websites including Fodor's Guides, France Magazine, easyJet inflight magazine, and Michelin Green Guides. She is
the author of the award-winning guide "Naughty Paris: A Lady's Guide to the Sexy City" and editor for the upcoming guide in the series, "Naughty New York".

Robert Stewart

Robert Stewart is the Editor of the literary journal New Letters. Robert teaches creative and professional writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is the author of Outside Language: Essays (Helicon Nine Editions, 2003) and the poetry collection Plumbers (BkMk Press, 1988), among other publications. His poetry, feature articles and travel essays have appeared in journals such as Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, and Notre Dame Review, as well as numerous anthologies. He has been editor-in-chief of New Letters since 2002.

Charles Trueheart

Charles Trueheart has been director of the American Library in Paris since 2007. He is a former cultural affairs writer and Paris correspondent of the Washington Post, and a former associate director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. His articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and the American Scholar, among other publications. He is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Amherst College.

Brian Spence

Brian Spence is the owner of the Abbey Bookshop in Paris' Latin Quarter.

Charles and Clydette De Groot

After earning an MBA from the Harvard Business School, Charles de Groot worked in finance until founding a real estate company, which he listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He has served on the broads of directors of several for-profit and nonprofit organizations and lectured at international business schools.
Clydette de Groot holds a doctorate in psychology and has done post doctoral work in organizational development. She spent much of her career as director of behavioral sciences in family medicine residency training programs affiliated with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. In addition to serving on a number of non-profit boards, she had an international corporate consulting business.
Charles and Clydette currently co-chair of The de Groot Foundation. They divide their time among France, Switzerland and the US and are active in the Paris literary community.

Cara Black

Cara Black is a bestselling American mystery writer, best known for her Aimée Léduc mystery novels featuring a female Paris-based private investigator. Black is included in the Great Women Mystery Writers by Elizabeth Lindsay 2nd edition. Her first novel, Murder in the Marais, was nominated for an Anthony Award for best first novel, and her third novel in the series, Murder in the Sentier, was nominated for an Anthony Award as Best Novel.

For more information about Paris Writers News' short story contest.

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

noreply@blogger.com (Best Paris Stories) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:46:00 +0000

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.