The days are slowly getting longer, which means less eye strain from writing by candle-light (or maybe by flashlight?)! We know you’re making good use of the sunshine, so submit your latest efforts to one of these contests before they’re…
Submissions to this year’s anthology, with winners selected by guest judge Toni Jensen, will close in just over a week! We’re looking for your very best in fiction and creative nonfiction, up to 7,000 words. Ten winners will be chosen…
In case you missed last week’s announcement, The Masters Review will be hosting its first Spring Small Fiction Awards, honoring winners in Microfiction, Flash Fiction, and Sudden Fiction. Today, we are thrilled to announce that the first judge of this…
“My father lit himself on fire as a side gig.” It’s unlikely you’ll need much more than that to be hooked into Lyndsie Manusos’s “The Sum of All Amazements,” the honorable mention in our 2022 Summer Short Story Award for New Writers. Eleven-year-old Annie looks up to her father, an amateur daredevil, more than anyone else in the world. She, too, aspires to have her name printed among the great escape artists of all time—and with her birthday coming up,…
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