Dennis Loy Johnson

2nd Paris Novella Prize open for entries

April 14th, 2012

Shakespeare and Company Paris - in full bloom The bookshop Shakespeare and Company was established in the Latin Quarter in Paris in 1951 by American George Whitman as a tribute to Sylvia Beach’s 1920s bookshop of the same name.

Last year, in association with the de Groot Foundation, the bookshop established a Literary Prize to champion the novella form and to discover new writers. Judges of the 2011 prize included Times literary editor Erica Wagner, novelist Breyten Breytenbach, Darin Strauss and Dennis Loy Johnson. Over 450 novellas were submitted for the prize and the winner was Rosa Rankin-Gee.

This year, the prize will run again and the closing date is 1 September.

Novellas (17,000 – 35,000 words) on any subject by previously unpublished writers are eligible.

For more details visit their website:The Paris Literary Prize .