AUGUST TARRIER WINS ZOETROPE FICTION CONTEST

University of Baltimore School of Design faculty member August Tarrier has won First Prize in the prestigious 2005 Zoetrope Short Fiction Contest.  Her story, “I Hold You Harmless,” will be published in Zoetrope: All Story in Spring, 2006, as well as in their online supplement.  In addition to publication, the prize carries with it a $1,000 award.

According to Zoetrope editor Michael Ray, Pulitzer Prize winning writer and Zoetrope contest judge Robert Olen Butler selected Tarrier’s story “from thousands of entries.” 

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola launched the magazine in 1997 in order to support “the brightest young voices in fiction.” In its eight-year history, Zoetrope: All-Story has received every major short fiction award, including the National Magazine Award for Fiction, while simultaneously discovering authors such as Adam Haslett, Melissa Bank, and David Benioff and publishing literary luminaries such as Gabriel García Márquez, Don DeLillo, and Cynthia Ozick.

Dr. Tarrier began teaching at UB in Fall, 2004, and has taught Writing, Editing, and Publishing, Seminar in Literature and Writing, The Magazine, and Workshop in Written Communication, as well as Ideas in Writing, the university-required junior-level writing course which she directs.

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