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.
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Guest Designer
Jim Jarmusch
Contributors
Jim Jarmusch
Thomas Pierce
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Ben Stroud
Sara Driver
Paul Bowles
NEWS & EVENTS
Summer 2021 Edition
The editors are thrilled to announce the release of the Summer 2021 edition, designed by the acclaimed filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, with contributions from National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award honoree Thomas Pierce, Story Prize winner Ben Stroud, and filmmaker and producer Sara Driver, among others.
Five Questions with Jim Jarmusch
Why did you accept the invitation to design the Summer 2021 edition of All-Story?
I had been asked previously but was very busy at the time, so I was honored to be asked again. I had seen beautiful issues designed by a lot of people I admire and know—Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Autumn de Wilde, Julian Casablancas—and I was encouraged by how visually inspiring those issues were. I was happy to be able to design one, too.
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 . . .
PAST EDITIONS
Guest Designer
Jeffrey Gibson
Contributors
Deborah Forbes, Jeffrey Gibson, Sefi Atta, Tommy Orange, David Bezmozgis, Steven Millhauser
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Deborah Roberts
Contributors
Deborah Roberts, Elizabeth McCracken, Sarah Blackman, Daniel Mason, Jim Shepard
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Kelly Reichardt
Contributors
Kelly Reichardt, Patrick Dacey, Daniel Orozco, Frances de Pontes Peebles
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Cate Le Bon
Contributors
Stephanie Soileau, Rebecca Miller, Maisie Mattia
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JR
Contributors
JR, Steven Millhauser, Sarah Hall, Ling Ma
Guest Designer
Mark Gonzales
Contributors
Uzma Aslam Khan, Daniel Mason, David Means, Thomas Pierce
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Autumn de Wilde
Contributors
Autumn de Wilde, Elizabeth McCracken, Yiyun Li, Ben Fountain, H. P. Lovecraft
Guest Designer
Ruby Ray
Contributors
’Pemi Aguda, Penelope Houston, Christopher Isherwood, Sarah Hall
Guest Designer
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Contributors
Tom Waits, Jack London, A.E. Stout, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Shani Boianjiu, Ben Stroud
Guest Designer
David Lynch
Contributors
Tommy Orange, Gus Van Sant, Miles Greaves, David Lynch, Jon Raymond, Esmé Weijun Wang, Barry Gifford, William S. Burroughs
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