The picks are in and The Masters Review is pleased to announce Gina Chung’s ten finalists for our thirteenth anthology, Best Emerging Writers 2024! Congratulations to each of our winners, whose work will appear both in our print anthology in May 2025 as well as right here on our website. We want to thank all of our submitters for trusting us with their work. Without you, this project would not be possible. Stay tuned for news on submissions for next year’s anthology!
Postictal State by Margaret Adams
Disfigured by Emilie Pascale Beck
My Own True Name by Vicky Grut
Fermentation by Jacqueline Gu
SeaWorld by Aurora Huiza
Driftwood by Elizabeth Kleinfeld
(Other Mother.) by River Lucero
In Praise of the Collective Noun by Beth Richards
Blades of a Feather by Laura Price Steele
The Real Boys of Summer by Jillian Weiss