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New Writing on the Net: August

This month’s New Writing on the Net comes to us from former reader Areej Mehdi. Areej has highlighted some of the previous month’s most interesting speculative fiction written by women, published across the net at Tor, LightSpeed, The Dark Magazine,…

A Conversation with Gabriel Urza

The White Death: An Illusion (Nouvella, 2019), is the first novella from author Gabriel Urza (All That Followed, 2015). Within its svelte sixty pages, Urza explores themes of parenthood, craft, and our fear of the unknown, all through the lens…

Call for Readers: Summer

The Masters Review has an open call for readers to add to our team starting this summer. If you love literary fiction and nonfiction, and three to four hours of reading submissions a week sounds like fun, we encourage you…

From the blog | Aug. 19, 2019

New Voices: “The Engagement” by Stacey Wang

We are proud to present Stacey Wang’s first story: “The Engagement.” A story of generational and cultural differences, Wang deftly illustrates the strain these differences can place on familial relationships. Wang commands attention with this powerful debut, and we are thrilled add “The Engagement” to our New Voices catalog. At the Thanksgiving table, I bit my tongue and swallowed my food. I didn’t want to embarrass you, so I pretended not to notice that you had stopped talking. Instead, I…

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Submissions for our Summer Short Story Award are open through August 31. This year's judge is Tope Folarin, author of the forthcoming A Particular Kind of Black Man. $3000, publication and agency review awarded to the winner. Be sure to check out or calendar page, which highlights more upcoming projects, and remember, our New Voices submission category is free to submit and pays for stories. It's all part of our mission to offer a quality platform for emerging writers.

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At The Masters Review, our mission is to support emerging writers. We only accept submissions from writers who can benefit from a larger platform. Typically, writers without published novels or story collections, or, publications with low circulation. We publish fiction and nonfiction online year round and put out an annual anthology of the ten best emerging writers in the country, judged by an expert in the field. We publish articles and book reviews on the blog and hold workshops that connect emerging and established writers.