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11TH Annual SHORT FICTION CONTEST

Thank you to all those who entered the 2007 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest. We appreciate the opportunity to read your work.

From more than twenty-five hundred entries, judge Joyce Carol Oates honored the following stories:

First Prize:
"The Plainness of My Fall" by Janice Macdonald, Mount Forest, ON

Second Prize:
"Bethlehem Steel" by Timothy Crandle, San Francisco, CA

Third Prize:
"Photos of My Father" by Ryan Shiroma, Cerritos, CA

Honorable Mentions:
"Red Fez" by Gail Chehab, San Diego, CA
"The Lives That Came Before You, the Lives That Never End" by Tara Cottrell, Menlo Park, CA
"I Was Young Once" by Cathryn Grant, Sunnyvale, CA
"Hana" by Anita W. Harris, Long Beach, CA
"California" by Matthew Lansburgh, New York, NY
"My God Is Godly" by Quan Barry, Madison, WI
"Conjugation" by Amy Rowland, New York, NY

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, Janice Macdonald's "The Plainness of My Fall," has been published at this website as a special online supplement to the Spring 2008 issue.

The 2008 Short Fiction Contest opens July 1, 2008; please visit the website this summer for details or e-mail contests@all-story.com.

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