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The Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest deadline is October 1. Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler will judge and award a top prize of $1,000, second-place prize of $500, and third-place prize of $250. Past finalists include Jonathan Safran Foer and Pauls Toutonghi. Winners and seven honorable mentions will be announced at the website December 1, 2005, and in the Spring 2006 issue of Zoetrope: All-Story.

All genres of literary fiction accepted. Entries must be: unpublished; 5,000 words or less; postmarked by October 1, 2005; clearly marked "Short Fiction Contest" on both the story and the outside of the envelope; accompanied by a $15 entry fee per story (make checks payable to AZX Publications). Please include name and address on first page or cover letter only.

Multiple entries welcome ($15/story) and entries from outside the U.S.; please send entry fee in U.S. currency or money order. Entrants retain rights to their stories.

Mail entries to:
Zoetrope: All-Story
Short Fiction Contest
916 Kearny Street
San Francisco, CA 94133

More info: contests@all-story.com