Zoetrope: All-Story (original) (raw)

Fall 2025

Guest Designer
Florence Shaw

Contributors
Elizabeth McCracken
Patrick Flanery
Tommy Orange
Thomas Pierce
Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind

New Issue Hot Off the Press

The wait is over: Volume 29, number 2, has wrapped production and is on its way to subscribers and preorder customers! And we think you’ll . . .

2025 Screenplay Competition Results Are In

The results of the 2025 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition are in! From nearly 2,000 submissions, judge Francis Ford Coppola and the staff of American Zoetrope have made . . .

Florence Shaw Designs Fall 2025

The Fall 2025 edition is in production, and we’re thrilled to announce Florence Shaw, of the British post-punk band Dry Cleaning, as the guest designer. Along with fronting . . .

FROM THE ARCHIVE

Town

Alan Murrin

He tucked the wodge of brochures under his arm and headed out the door of the travel agents, looking down as he walked. Campaign posters lined the street, every telephone pole and lamppost swathed in them.

“Ah, James, how are ya?”

He glanced up. Patsy Lenihan lumbered toward him, listing heavily, panting like an old dog. There was no way around the man without stepping off the pavement, such was the broad beam of him.

“Patsy, how are you?” James said.

“Ah, I’m not so bad, I suppose, but this getting old is no craic at all.” . . .

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