This summer, The Masters Review wants to learn with you! Join us for four live workshops designed to spark your creativity and elevate your craft. Each individual workshop will cost $20, or you can sign up today to get all four for $60! All workshops will take place over Zoom and a recording will be shared with everyone who registers, so you can participate no matter where you’re located. More information on the courses to come, but in the meantime, please meet our instructors below!
May 21 – Setting
Brandon Williams was raised in Northern California, teaches in Southern California, and (wishes he still) lived on the California Central Coast. He serves as Assistant Editor at The Masters Review. His work has appeared in Threepenny Review, Crazyhorse, Black Clock, The LA Review of Books, Carve, Confrontation, Huizache, and others. He is probably driving right now.
June 18 – Characterization
Gage Saylor is a writer, editor, and teacher from South Carolina. He earned a PhD in Fiction from Oklahoma State University, as well as an MFA and MA from McNeese State University. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Passages North, Tampa Review, Grist, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He currently serves as the Marketing Director for Split/Lip Press. Learn more at www.gagesaylor.com.
July 16 – Flashback and Backstory
Jen Dupree is the award-winning author of two novels, The Miraculous Flight of Owen Leach (2022) and What Do You Want from Me? (2025). Slow Motion: A Memoir of Friendship, Disability, and Advocacy, her first full-length work of nonfiction, will be out with Islandport Press in March of 2026. She is an assistant editor for The Masters Review, a library director, and a former bookstore owner. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from USM’s Stonecoast program. Her work has appeared in Slippery Elm, December, Solstice, The Masters Review, On the Rusk and other notable places. She is the winner of the Writer’s Digest Fiction Contest, a Pushcart nominee, and a two-time winner of a Maine Literary Award. She lives in Maine with her husband and Portuguese Water Dog (Pink) Floyd. Find her at www.JenniferDupree.com.
August 20 – Revision and Rewriting
Reena Shah is the author of Every Happiness, an Indies Introduce pick for winter/spring 2026 and an Indie Next title for February 2026. Her work has appeared in swamp pink, The Masters Review, Electric Literature, Waxwing Magazine, Joyland, BBC, and National Geographic, among others. She is the recipient of a Steinbeck Fellowship, the Keene Prize in Literature from the University of Texas in Austin, a Fulbright Scholarship, and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship. For many years she was a kathak dancer with the Parul Shah Dance Company. She is a fiction editor at The Rumpus, teaches at a public school in Brooklyn, and lives in Roosevelt Island with her family.