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The 2022-2023 Winter Short Story Award for New Writers Shortlist!

After months of reading and deliberation, we’ve narrowed down our submissions pool to these final fifteen stories. We now hand over our shortlist to Morgan Talty, who has the tremendously difficult task of selecting the winning three. Congratulations to the…

Last Day to Submit: Spring Small Fiction Awards, Judged by K-Ming Chang!

Today is the deadline for our new Spring Small Fiction Awards! K-Ming Chang is serving as our judge for this new contest and will pick three grand prize winners and three runners-up from a shortlist provided by The Masters Review‘s…

2022 Chapbook Open Winner, Selected by Kim Fu!

Congratulations to Naomi Telushkin, author of Coats, the winning chapbook in the 2022 Chapbook Open, selected by Kim Fu! Fu calls Coats an “urgent, thrilling, gorgeous, intelligent, complex piece of writing,” and we cannot wait to share this story with…

From the blog | Jun. 05, 2023

New Voices: “Pigeons in Every Universe” by Kiran Kaur Saini

Our first New Voices story comes to us from Kiran Kaur Saini! In this moving flash fiction, our young bedridden neighbor finds a penpal using messenger pigeons, under the guidance of her grandfather. Despite the obstacles that arise, as the end nears, her grandfather assures her: “a pigeon always finds its way home.” Read “Pigeons in Every Universe” in full at the link below! Every morning I can’t wait to hear from Grapa if a message has returned. My penpal…

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Fiction. Essays. Edits. Experts.

Our Summer Short Story Award for New Writers opens July 1st. Stay tuned for news about this year's guest judge! We're looking for your best prose under 6,000 words. $3,000, online publication, and agency review to the winner! Be sure to check out our 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 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.