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Current Edition

Summer 2026

Guest Designer
Stanley Whitney

Contributors
Joanna Kavenna
Maile Meloy
Albertine Clarke
Fatima Kola

NEWS & EVENTS

Five Questions with Stanley Whitney

Why did you accept the invitation to design the Summer 2026 edition of All-Story?
I thought it would be interesting. It’s not something I usually do. It . . .

Summer 2026 Hits the Streets

Our Summer 2026 edition has rolled off the presses at Community Printers in Santa Cruz and is winging its way to points across the globe! . . .

Larry Karaszewski to Judge Screenplay Competition

We’re excited to announce that the guest judge for the 2026 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition is Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning screenwriter Larry Karaszewski, whose credits . . .

New Issue Hot Off the Press

The wait is over: Volume 29, number 2, has wrapped production and is on its way to subscribers and preorder customers! And we think you’ll . . .

2025 Screenplay Competition Results Are In

The results of the 2025 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition are in! From nearly 2,000 submissions, judge Francis Ford Coppola and the staff of American Zoetrope have made . . .

FROM THE ARCHIVE


The Torn and Restored Mother

Elizabeth McCracken

In the middle of October, 1972, our mother left. “Finally,” said our bald-headed, bull-shouldered father. We couldn’t tell whether finally meant she’d been planning or he’d been hoping. She left the house with all its windows, china cabinets, kitchen cupboards, French doors. She left Albert the beagle, full of woe and joy; Pan the striped cat; the three of us, ages nine through fourteen. She left all of Halloween, her favorite holiday, her wigs and dirndls, her false mustaches, the papier-mâché Statue of Liberty torch that resembled a caveman’s club: she wasn’t good at props. She left a half-constructed Henry VIII costume, meant for an . . .


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PAST Editions

Fall 2025
vol. 29 no. 2
Guest Designer
Florence Shaw
Summer 2025
vol. 29 no. 1
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Elsa Hansen Oldham
Summer 2024
vol. 28 no. 2
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Michael Jang
Spring 2024
vol. 28 no. 1
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Shirley Kurata
Fall 2023
vol. 27 no. 3
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Steve Keene
Summer 2023
vol. 27 no. 2
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Lynn Hershman Leeson
Spring 2023
vol. 27 no. 1
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Shirin Neshat
Winter 2022/2023
vol. 26 no. 4
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Aaron Rose
Fall 2022
vol. 26 no. 3
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Matt Dillon
Summer 2022
vol. 26 no. 2
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Jim Melchert
Spring 2022
vol. 26 no. 1
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Juman Malouf
Winter 2021/2022
vol. 25 no. 4
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Sylvia Plachy
Fall 2021
vol. 25 no. 3
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Tunde Adebimpe
Summer 2021
vol. 25 no. 2
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Jim Jarmusch
Spring 2021
vol. 25 no. 1
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Jeffrey Gibson
Winter 2020/2021
vol. 24 no. 4
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Deborah Roberts
Fall 2020
vol. 24 no. 3
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Kelly Reichardt
Summer 2020
vol. 24 no. 2
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Cate Le Bon

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