Zoetrope: All-Story

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.

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NEWS & EVENTS

The 2021 Short Fiction Competition closed for entries October 1. Guest judge and finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Daniel Mason will award the first prize of $1,000; the second prize of $500; and the third prize of $250; and the three prizewinners and seven honorable mentions will be considered for representation by William Morris Endeavor; ICM; the Wylie Agency; Regal Literary; Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency; Markson Thoma Literary Agency; Inkwell Management; Sterling Lord Literistic; Aitken Alexander Associates; Barer Literary; the Gernert Company; and the Georges Borchardt Literary Agency.

Fall 2021 Edition

The editors are thrilled to announce the release of the Fall 2021 edition, designed by the acclaimed musician, actor, and visual artist Tunde Adebimpe, with contributions from PEN/Faulkner Award winner T. C. Boyle, MacArthur Fellow Yiyun Li, and Booker Prize finalist David Means, among others.

Five Questions with Tunde Adebimpe

Why did you accept the invitation to design the Fall 2021 edition of All-Story?
I’m a big fan of the publication and was really honored to be asked. I had spent a lot of the pandemic drawing and painting, just to draw and paint more, so I was in that mindset when the opportunity came up. I also hadn’t made anything to be printed in a book or art-book format for a long while and was excited to have a venue for all these new images.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE

Story artwork by guest designer Carson Ellis

Tourists
Fiona McFarlane

Lena Derwent had worked at Mason’s for less than a week when they started making fun of her.
      “Well hi there, handsome,” they said when she was out of sight. “My name is Lena, and I come to you from the 1980s.”
      “She looks like an art teacher,” said Gemma from sales. “Don’t you think? Kinda over the top? Kinda demented?”
      And Joe from payroll laughed, as he often did when Gemma spoke, because he knew Gemma was unkind, but, but what if she were to come unfurled, be private, tender, alone with Joe—what then? So it embarrassed him to live on the same street as Lena Derwent, and to have recognized her as soon as he saw her at Mason’s, with her large, fuzzed hair; her slipped lipstick; her cleavage. She was the middle-aged woman in number twelve, who was out every Saturday weeding in her garden, who . . .

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Guest Designer

Jim Jarmusch

Contributors

Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Thomas Pierce, Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, Paul Bowles, Ben Stroud

Guest Designer

Jeffrey Gibson

Contributors

Deborah Forbes, Jeffrey Gibson, Sefi Atta, Tommy Orange, David Bezmozgis, Steven Millhauser

Guest Designer

Deborah Roberts

Contributors

Deborah Roberts, Elizabeth McCracken, Sarah Blackman, Daniel Mason, Jim Shepard

Guest Designer

Kelly Reichardt

Contributors

Kelly Reichardt, Patrick Dacey, Daniel Orozco, Frances de Pontes Peebles

Guest Designer

Cate Le Bon

Contributors

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JR

Contributors

Guest Designer

Mark Gonzales

Contributors

Uzma Aslam Khan, Daniel Mason, David Means, Thomas Pierce

Guest Designer

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

Past Editions

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Past Editions

CURRENT EDITION

Fall 2021

Guest Designer

Tunde Adebimpe

Guest Designer

Tunde Adebimpe

Contributors

Tunde AdebimpeT. C. BoyleYiyun LiDavid MeansAnakana Schofield

NEWS & EVENTS

Short Fiction Competition

Fall 2021 Edition

Five Questions with Tunde Adebimpe

FROM THE ARCHIVE

Tourists Fiona McFarlane

PAST EDITIONS