The literary version of Pop Idol was crowned in London this week. “Paul Cavanagh was named winner of Lit Idol, a contest designed to unearth Britain’s ‘hottest fiction talent’. Cavanagh, from Ontario, Canada, secures representation by the literary and media agency Curtis Brown after winning the contest, the first of its kind, with his work, entitled Northwest Passage. The 1,466 entries were asked to submit up to 10,000 words from the opening chapters of a novel and a two page synopsis when they entered the competition.”