The deadline has been EXTENDED for our annual anthology and will now close on April 3rd at midnight PST! Make sure to submit your 7,000 word stories and creative nonfiction for your chance to be published in our print edition and win a $500 prize. The ten winning stories and essays will be selected by guest judge Peter Ho Davies! Find all the details below or on our contest page.
Submissions open until April 3rd!
Every year The Masters Review opens submissions to produce our anthology, a collection of ten stories and essays written by the best emerging authors. Our aim is to showcase ten writers who we believe will continue to produce great work. The ten winners are nationally distributed in a printed book with their stories and essays exposed to top agents, editors, and authors across the country. Our third volume was awarded the Silver Medal for Best Short Story Collection through the INDIEFAB Awards in 2015, and our fourth volume was an honorable mention for best anthology. Submit today to purchase your copy of Volume IX, or check us out on Amazon!
JUDGING
Each year The Masters Review pairs with a guest judge to select stories. Our editorial team produces a shortlist of stories, which our judge reviews to select winners. Our past judges include Lauren Groff, AM Homes, Lev Grossman, Kevin Brockmeier, Amy Hempel, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Makkai, Kate Bernheimer, Rick Bass, and Diane Cook. This year’s judge is Peter Ho Davies!
Peter Ho Davies’ most recent books are the novel A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself and his first work of non-fiction, The Art of Revision: The Last Word. Other books include the novels, The Fortunes, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and the The Welsh Girl, long-listed for the Booker Prize, as well as two acclaimed collections of short stories. His fiction has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic, The Paris Review and Granta and been anthologized in O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Short Stories.
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Previously unpublished works of fiction and narrative nonfiction only
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Up to 7000 words
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We accept simultaneous submissions as long as work is withdrawn if it is accepted elsewhere
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Multiple submissions are allowed
- International English submissions allowed
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Emerging Writers Only. Writers must not have published a novel-length work at the time of submission (authors of short story collections and self-published titles can submit as can authors with novels or memoirs with a low distribution [about 5000 copies])
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Standard formatting please (double-spaced, 12 pt font, pages numbered)
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$20 entry fee
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NEW Deadline: April 3rd, 2022!
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Please, no identifying information on your story
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All submissions are considered for publication in the anthology as well as New Voices
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If requesting an editorial letter, please indicate on your cover letter if the submissions is fiction or creative nonfiction
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A significant portion of the editorial letter fees go to our feedback editor, according to the rates established by the EFA
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To view a list of our most commonly asked questions regarding submitting to The Masters Review, please see our FAQ page.
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Writers who have earned an Anthology Prize before and whose work appears in our printed book cannot submit to this category but are welcome to send us work in other open categories
TEN PUBLISHED AUTHORS WILL RECEIVE:
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$500 award.
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Publication in our nationally distributed journal.
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Exposure to over 50 literary agencies.
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Contributor’s copy.
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All writers are part of an exclusive mailing. We send our anthology to editors, writers, and literary institutions across the country.
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