Short Fiction Competition
Many thanks to all who entered the 2020 Short Fiction Competition. We appreciate the opportunity to read such bright and brilliant new work. From more than 2,200 submissions, guest judge Téa Obreht has announced results.
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Zoetrope: All-Story is Francis Ford Coppola’s internationally acclaimed fiction and art magazine. -
Zoetrope: All-Story is Francis Ford Coppola’s internationally acclaimed fiction and art magazine. -
Zoetrope: All-Story is Francis Ford Coppola’s internationally acclaimed fiction and art magazine.
CURRENT EDITION
Guest Designer
Jeffrey Gibson
Contributors
Jeffrey Gibson
Steven Millhauser
Tommy Orange
Sefi Atta
David Bezmozgis
Deborah Forbes
NEWS & EVENTS
Spring 2021 Edition
The editors are thrilled to announce the release of the Spring 2021 Edition, designed by the acclaimed artist Jeffrey Gibson, with contributions from Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser, PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Tommy Orange, and 2020 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition-winner Deborah Forbes, among others.
Five Questions with Jeffrey Gibson
Why did you accept the invitation to design the Spring 2021 edition of All-Story?
It was an opportunity that I’ve not had previously, and I’m working on a book project for which I’ll be the editor. So I’ve been paying a lot of attention to print material lately, and I thought this would be a perfect chance to have some fun with the format of a publication.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
To Get Rich Is Glorious
Alexandra Chang
“To Get Rich Is Glorious” was awarded first prize in the 2017 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition, as judged by Maile Meloy.
Water Poured Out on the Ground
A girl, it’s announced. The mother weeps openly and, unable to look, feels a leady heaviness fill her bones. It is late and raining. A cold December day, 1980. The father leaves the room to smoke outside. Beneath the hospital’s awning, he watches the ground, where thin streams of water flow downhill away from him, like his daughter will. All daughters naturally do.
Back in the room, the grandmother holds the baby and, gazing into that blank, red face, names her Hang Chun Fu. It is an old woman’s nostalgia and wishfulness to want it all for this little girl.
She will be an only child—no . . .
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