The Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition welcomes entries of stories and one-act plays of up to five thousand words. A team of professional readers vets the manuscripts, and a guest judge adjudicates the winners; among recent guest judges are Ling Ma, Daniel Mason, Téa Obreht, Karen Russell, Colum McCann, Mary Gaitskill, Adam Johnson, Yiyun Li, and Joyce Carol Oates. The winning story is ensured publication, whether at the website or in the print edition; the top three stories earn cash prizes; and those stories, along with seven honorable mentions, are forwarded to leading literary agencies for consideration. Of the ten authors so recognized each year, an average of three to six sign with agents as a result; and past such writers include Jonathan Safran Foer and Tommy Orange. The competition opens July 1 and closes the first week of October.
For guidelines, deadlines, and to enter, please visit zoetrope.com/contests.
The mission of the American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition is to find and promote new and innovative voices in cinema. The competition accepts entries of feature-length film scripts and television/streaming pilot scripts. Professional readers carefully review each script, and Francis Ford Coppola and the American Zoetrope staff select a winner from among the ten finalists. The winner receives a cash prize, and Zoetrope forwards the scripts of all ten finalists to leading production companies and talent agencies for consideration. The competition opens June 1 and closes in early September.
For guidelines, deadlines, and to enter, please visit zoetrope.com/contests.
Zoetrope: All-Story partners with Gotham Writers’ Workshop to offer award-winning fiction workshops to writers of all abilities and ambitions. Classes are conducted online, accessible twenty-four hours a day, and limited to sixteen students per class. Students engage in a weeklong Q&A with All-Story Editor Michael Ray; are invited to submit a story for consideration while the magazine is officially closed to submissions; and receive a subscription to the magazine.
For more information and to register, please visit Zoetrope Fiction Writing I and Zoetrope Short Fiction Writing II.
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