<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Paris Literary Prize <<a href="mailto:info@parisliteraryprize.org">info@parisliteraryprize.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">April 2, 2012 4:15:23 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><<a href="mailto:robin.russin@ucr.edu">robin.russin@ucr.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Paris Literary Prize Press Announcement</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><<a href="mailto:info@parisliteraryprize.org">info@parisliteraryprize.org</a>><br></span></div><br><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><div topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0"><!--Copyright (c) 1996-2012 Constant Contact. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under a separate
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<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times; COLOR: #808080; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Shakespeare and Company Paris and The de Groot Foundation present:</span></div><p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"> </p>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Open for Submissions</span></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">The Paris Literary Prize is an international prize for unpublished writers, awarded for a novella. Any topic is welcome.</span></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">The Shakespeare and Company independent bookstore in Paris has a long-standing tradition of opening its doors to aspiring writers. In keeping with that philosophy, the Paris Literary Prize is open to writers from around the world who have not yet published a book.</span></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">There are three Paris Literary Prize awards:<br><br></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><strong>The Paris Literary Prize award:</strong> 10,000 Euros</span></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><strong><br>Two Paris Literary Prize Runner-up awards:</strong> 2,000 Euros each<br><br>All three winners will be invited to a weekend stay in Paris to attend the<br>Prize ceremony and read from their work at a special event at<br>Shakespeare and Company.</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman, Times;font-size:14pt;TEXT-ALIGN: left" height="15" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left">
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