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THIRTEENTH ANNUAL ZOETROPE: ALL-STORY SHORT FICTION CONTEST

Thanks to all those who entered the 2009 Short Fiction Contest. We appreciate the opportunity to read your work.

From nearly 2,500 entries, judge Yiyun Li honored the following stories:

First Prize
"The Third Law of Dialectics" by Ted Burton (Pasadena, CA)

Second Prize
"You Fell into the River and I Saved You!" by Jenny Jianing Zhang (Iowa City, IA)

Third Prize
"The Two Thousand Dollar Sock" by Megan Mayhew Bergman (Shaftsbury, VT)

Honorable Mentions
"The Whisper of Dead Wings" by Madhushree Ghosh (San Diego, CA)
"Stalking" by Enid Harlow (New York, NY)
"Maybe We're the Angels" by Jeff P. Jones (Moscow, ID)
"Things Hereafter" by Marysa Kay LaRowe (Madison, WI)
"Foils" by Anne de Marcken (Olympia, WA)
"A Boy I Know" by Zulema Renee Summerfield (San Francisco, CA)
"Sister, Ghost" by Kristie Ruth Wang (Palo Alto, CA)

First prize is $1,000; second prize, $500; and third prize, $250. The winners and honorable mentions will be considered for representation by the William Morris Agency, ICM, Regal Literary, the Elaine Markson Literary Agency, Inkwell Management, Sterling Lord Literistic, and the Georges Borchardt Literary Agency.

The winning story, "The Third Law of Dialectics" by Ted Burton, will be published at this website as a special online supplement to the Spring 2010 issue.

The 2010 Short Fiction Contest opens July 1, 2010; for details, please visit the website this summer, or e-mail contests@all-story.com.



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