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Zoetrope: All-Story A quarterly magazine of art and short fiction, founded by Francis Ford Coppola. http://all-story.com

In 1997, Francis Ford Coppola launched Zoetrope: All-Story, a quarterly magazine devoted to the best new short fiction and one-act plays. It has received every major story award, including the National Magazine Award for Fiction, while publishing today's most promising and significant writers: Tommy Orange, Karen Russell, Mary Gaitskill, David Mamet, Ha Jin, Elizabeth McCracken, Yiyun Li, Don DeLi

llo, Andrew Sean Greer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Lena Dunham, Yoko Ogawa, David Means, Susan Straight, Charles D'Ambrosio, David Bezmozgis, Neil Jordan, and Haruki Murakami among them. Zoetrope: All-Story is also an art magazine, as the editors invite a different contemporary artist to illustrate and design each issue. Past guest designers include Jim Jarmusch, Agnes Varda, Nick Cave, William Eggleston, Zaha Hadid, Kara Walker, Julian Schnabel, Wim Wenders, Laurie Anderson, Peter Sellars, Helmut Newton, Kelly Reichardt, David Bowie, Gus Van Sant, Tom Waits, Ed Ruscha, David Byrne, Kiki Smith, Wayne Thiebaud, Chip Kidd, PJ Harvey, Iggy Pop, Yves Béhar, and Mike Figgis.

Here at the magazine, we believe in America. And what’s more American than listening to our fellow citizens? Those citiz...
24/09/2025

Here at the magazine, we believe in America. And what’s more American than listening to our fellow citizens? Those citizens are beseeching us for a bit more time to finish their work, and we’re happy to oblige. The deadline for the Short Fiction Competition has been extended by one week, to Wednesday, October 8! If your story is complete, please enter now, as we’re eagerly reading submissions and keen for yours. And if you need another few days to mull over the projection angle of your titanic meteor as it splits the troposphere on a terrifying path for Earth, we’re pleased to grant you that space. Jamel Brinkley, a National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, will adjudicate and award the prizes. Find details and enter at 🔗 in bio. And thanks for giving us the opportunity to read your work!
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🎬SCREENWRITERS: Today—September 17–is the deadline for the American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition entries. Send those ...
17/09/2025

🎬SCREENWRITERS: Today—September 17–is the deadline for the American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition entries. Send those scripts our way! is the judge. Find details and enter at the 🔗 in bio. Thanks for sharing your work with us!🎬

Awright, screenwriters, the American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition deadline is nearly upon us: you have till midnight ...
15/09/2025

Awright, screenwriters, the American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition deadline is nearly upon us: you have till midnight PST this Wednesday, September 17, to enter your scripts! is the judge. Winner receives a cash prize, plus the winning and 9 finalist scripts go to agencies and production companies for consideration. Find details and enter at 🔗 in bio. Thanks for giving us the chance to read your work!

Screenwriters: The FINAL deadline for the 23rd annual American Zoetrope Screenplay competition is next week, September 1...
12/09/2025

Screenwriters: The FINAL deadline for the 23rd annual American Zoetrope Screenplay competition is next week, September 17! Have you entered? Francis Coppola is the judge. The winner receives a cash prize, and the winning and nine finalist scripts will be considered by leading agencies and production companies. Find details and enter at the 🔗 in bio.

⏰The Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition closes for entries in THREE weeks, on Wednesday, October 1! Submissio...
12/09/2025

⏰The Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition closes for entries in THREE weeks, on Wednesday, October 1! Submissions are rolling in, and we’re happily reading like mad. Guest judge is Jamel Brinkley, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction who teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The top 3 receive cash prizes; the top 10 are considered by literary agencies; the winning story is guaranteed publication as a special online supplement; and all stories submitted to the competition are considered for publication in the print edition. Find details and enter at 🔗 in bio. We appreciate the opportunity to read so much exciting work!brinkley

“They put me in an empty room with a single chair. The walls were empty and white so there was nothing for me to look at...
11/09/2025

“They put me in an empty room with a single chair. The walls were empty and white so there was nothing for me to look at, nothing to distract me. The floor was white. The ceiling was white. Even the chair was white! I closed my eyes and imagined my honey room, but this time I didn’t put any pictures into it. Instead, I simply watched through the slim window and waited for something to happen.” —Thomas Pierce, “Honey Is a State of Mind,” Summer 2025
🍯Pierce weaves together an unsuspecting specimen, unrelenting funders, and a bizarre love triangle for a mind-melding story that sits comfortably with riveting new fiction from Jim Shepard, Han Ong, and Sasha Graybosch, plus mesmerizing art from Elsa Hansen Oldham. Issues are going fast, so if you don’t have one yet, grab it while you can at 🔗 in bio!

We’re thrilled to offer a not-so-inside tip: get yourselves to Miami to see Summer 2025 guest designer Elsa Hansen Oldha...
04/09/2025

We’re thrilled to offer a not-so-inside tip: get yourselves to Miami to see Summer 2025 guest designer Elsa Hansen Oldham’s solo exhibition at ! Opening today and continuing through November 15, the show includes several new works that landed in our pages—but in all their full-size, in-person glory. Five stars. Highly recommended. (You can thank us later.) And if you still haven’t snagged a copy of Elsa’s issue of All-Story, don’t delay! They’re flying off the shelves, and when they’re gone, they’re gone. 🔗 in bio.

“But not only would that risk university censure—implying an encouragement to my students—it would require me to make my...
03/09/2025

“But not only would that risk university censure—implying an encouragement to my students—it would require me to make myself open to their questions. And then to speak of s*x work’s—yes—abasement, drudgery, though more the latter than the former, the
abasement being the usual kind of the independent contractor.” —Han Ong, “The Past,” Summer 2025
The meet-cutes are ignominious, and the past is on the installment plan in Ong’s piercing tale of a family of Roger Federer acolytes coming together and falling apart, which joins contributions from Jim Shepard, Thomas Pierce, and Sasha Graybosch, and design by Elsa Hansen Oldham that’s reorganizing our histories in more riveting couplings.


✍️September already?! That means there are just FOUR WEEKS to finalize entries to the 29th annual Zoetrope: All-Story Sh...
03/09/2025

✍️September already?! That means there are just FOUR WEEKS to finalize entries to the 29th annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition! Deadline is October 1. Guest judge is National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner finalist Jamel Brinkley. We award cash prizes to the top three, and the top ten will be considered for representation by leading agencies. Find details and enter at 🔗 in bio. We look forward to reading your work!brinkley

“What he glimpsed to the west through the smoke was something he would have called impossible: giant pillars of roiling ...
29/08/2025

“What he glimpsed to the west through the smoke was something he would have called impossible: giant pillars of roiling black venting fire at their crowns, hundreds of feet in the air, and throwing burning material forward, and a whirlwind rushing at them on the updraft that was tearing trees entirely out of the ground.” —Jim Shepard, “The Devil’s Broom,” Summer 2025
Shepard leads us into the nightmarish heart of a rapacious forest fire—the Big Burn of 1910—which consumed more than 3 million acres of the Inland Northwest and claimed nearly 100 lives. Other contributors to this stellar edition include Han Ong, Thomas Pierce, and Sasha Graybosch, with design by Elsa Hansen Oldham that’s setting our feelings aflame. Pick up a copy via 🔗 in bio, while supplies last!


🎬You asked, we answered: The deadline for the 2025 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition has been extended to Septemb...
27/08/2025

🎬You asked, we answered: The deadline for the 2025 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition has been extended to September 17. We recognize that this is a particularly busy time of year for many, and we hope the additional two weeks will provide some breathing room for polishing scripts and completing your entries. Thanks for your interest in sharing your work with us, and best of luck to all entrants. We appreciate the opportunity to read your work!🎬

“I saw a real cat at school once, brought in by a zookeeper for an educational demonstration. We all stood around its ca...
26/08/2025

“I saw a real cat at school once, brought in by a zookeeper for an educational demonstration. We all stood around its cage, cooing and tossing it treats until it threw up. The zookeeper told us this was normal. He fed it a tranquilizer, and we took turns touching the fur on its back. I wanted to compare the memory of that cat’s fur with the actuality of Real-Feel’s, but Mom warned me not to get close or even speak to it, as my attention might interfere with its affinity for Dale, which she’d configured according to the instructions, though it could be swayed.” —Sasha Graybosch, “In Nature,” Summer 2025
Family dynamics and battery-operated pets take center stage in Graybosch’s wry and touching tale, which joins new stories from , , and and eye-popping art from guest designer in the Summer 2025 edition. Snag a copy now, if you haven’t already—quantities are limited, and they’re going fast! Link in bio.


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