Contests

Stories 2023: Twenty-Seventh Annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition

Screenplays 2023: Twenty-first Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition

Stories 2022: Twenty-Sixth Annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition

Guest Judge: Ling Ma

Screenplays 2022: Twentieth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition

Guest Judge: Francis Ford Coppola

Stories 2021: Twenty-Fifth Annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition

Guest Judge: Daniel Mason

Screenplays 2021: Nineteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition

Guest Judge: Francis Ford Coppola

Stories 2020: Twenty-Fourth Annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition

Guest Judge: Téa Obreht

Screenplays 2020: Eighteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition

Guest Judge: Francis Ford Coppola

Stories 2019: Twenty-Third Annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition

Films 2019: Third Annual Coppola Short Film Competition

Guest Judge: David Benioff Cowriter and showrunner of Game of Thrones

First Prize: "Turtle" by Jordan Schiele

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Screenplays 2019: Seventeenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition

Guest Judge: Francis Ford Coppola

First Prize: "Mother-Daughter" by Tricia Lee

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Films 2018: The Coppola Short Film Competition

Guest Judge: Gus Van Sant

First Prize: "Lobster Dinner " by Gregorio Franchetti

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Stories 2018: Twenty-Second Annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition

Guest Judge: Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award

Screenplays 2018: Sixteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition

First Prize: "Starshine and Clay" by Kendra Arimoto

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Stories 2017: Twenty-First Annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest

Guest Judge: Maile Meloy, winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction

Screenplays 2017: Fifteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest

First Prize: "Caroline's Wedding" by Easmanie Michel

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Films 2017: Coppola Shorts 2017

First Prize: "Sombras (Shadows)" by Jon Alonso Ayon

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Stories 2016: Twentieth Annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest

Guest Judge: Anthony Marra, winner of the 2016 National Magazine Award for Fiction.

First Prize: "Seeing Diane Arbus" by Lindsay Zibach

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Screenplays 2016: Fourteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest

Guest Judge: Francis Ford Coppola

First Prize: "Poppy (Pilot)" by Munis Rashid

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Screenplays 2015: Thirteenth Annual Zoetrope Screenplay Contest

First Prize: "48 Hour Fire" by Hennah Sekandary

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Screenplays 2014: Twelfth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest

First Prize: "Continuum" by Mark J Stasenko

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