Guest Judge Ramona Ausubel is in possession of the final thirty submissions for this year’s Best Emerging Writers anthology! Congratulations to all of our writers on the shortlist below, and thank you so much to each and every one of our submitters. This project continues to be the heart and soul of The Masters Review, and we look forward to announcing this year’s winners next month.
“A Soft Place to Land” by Violette Allard
“Hannah and Chezzie Forever” by Zoe Ballering
“Infinite Scroll” by Kathy Chao
“Sequenced” by Sammi Chiyao
“ANIMALS IN THE FORGOTTEN ROOM” by Andres Cordoba
“Viral” by Kaitlyn Ikumi DelaCruz
“What Makes Us Human“ by Danielle Shandiin Emerson
“Archive” by Gillian Esquivia-Cohen
“How To Eat A Mango” by Rebecca Fiorito
“Pareidolia” by Mariah Gese
“Thunderbird” by June Glass
“Friend Redacted” by Acree Graham Macam
“Art Crime” by Gabrielle Hovendon
“Solar Plexus” by Joe Incollingo
“Kuskokwim” by Naomi Klouda
“How the Sausage Is Made” by Elana Lavine
“The Last Gua Bao” by Nancy Leong
“Holy Week” by Jennie Lightweis-Goff
“Two Black Eyes and a Long Tail” by Vicki Madden
“The Most Vigilant Shrimp in All of Cuba” by Selena Mercuri
“A Story of June” by Jessie Petrow-Cohen
“Swallowing Paper” by Marlon Rajan
“Smoke Seasons” by Sophia Ross Eckert
“How to Smuggle a Christmas Tree When You Are on Daesh’s Hit List?” by Marcelle Shehwaro
“The Wolf Inside Her” by Erica Evelyn Simmonds
“Stone Wit” by Shakira Smith
“Gelman, Dancing” by Anna Story
“Rabbits” by Greg Tebbano
“Isa/Belle” by Kay Teng
“The Circus Strongman Mustache Mystique” by Cynthia Vander Ven