21st Annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest

Call for Entries: Deadline October 10, 2017

First prize: $1,000
Second prize: $500
Third prize: $250

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.

Dates:
Entries must be complete by October 2, 2017, at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Results will be announced at the website December 15 and in the Winter 2017/2018 issue of Zoetrope: All-Story; and the winning story will be published as a special online supplement to that Winter 2017/2018 issue.

Guidelines:
We accept all genres of literary fiction. Entries must be: unpublished; strictly 5,000 words or fewer; and accompanied by a $20 entry fee per story. There are no formatting restrictions; please ensure only that the story is legible. Please omit all personal information from the manuscript itself (i.e., name, address, e-mail address, phone number), as all stories are read blindly.

We welcome multiple entries ($20/story), simultaneous submissions, and entrants from outside the United States. We will e-mail contest updates and results to anyone who provides an active e-mail address. Entrants retain all rights to their stories. Once a story is submitted, we cannot accept an updated draft. (However, an entrant is welcome to submit an updated draft as a new entry.) Entry fees will not be returned or adjusted.

Please e-mail us at contests@all-story.com with further questions. Thank you for your interest, and good luck!