Prada has joined forces with Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore for an international short story competition called Prada Journal.

The winner(s) will receive a €5,000 prize, with their story published in an online e-book with a hard copy version that will be distributed in Prada boutiques worldwide.

 Piqued your interest? Here’s the theme: “What are the realities that our eyes give back to us? And how are these realities filtered through lenses?” 

This theme pretty much leaves it open, but with a focus on “views of the world. Images, marks, ideas,” but subject matter that is “sexually explicit or suggestive, alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons” are prohibited.

 Your story needs to be approximately 4,000 – 8,000 words in length, although it’s stipulated that they’d prefer “a minimum of 10 (ten) pages and a maximum of 20 (twenty) pages on A4 sized sheets, each page to contain approximately 400 words, written in Bodoni -DTC dim. 11 style.”

 The contest kicked off a couple of days ago on April 18 and runs through till June 18. Winners will be announced on December 31, 2013. To enter, send your entries to pradajournal@prada.com.

For more info, head on over to the Prada Journal website