The 2020 Flash Fiction Contest opens next week, and The Masters Review is excited to share that this year’s guest judge is none other than Sherrie Flick! Sherrie will be selecting the three winning stories from a shortlist chosen by our editors. The grand-prize winning author receives $3000!
Submissions are open from April 1 – May 31!
The Flash Fiction Contest will run from April 1st to May 31st. The winning writer will be awarded $3000 and publication on The Masters Review. Second and third place will be awarded $300 and $200, respectively, as well as publication in The Masters Review. So here it is: a home for your very best small fiction.
Sherrie Flick is the author of the novel Reconsidering Happiness and two short story collections, Whiskey, Etc. and Thank Your Lucky Stars. Her fiction has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Flash Fiction Forward, New Sudden Fiction, and New Micro, as well as Ploughshares, New World Writing, and Wigleaf. Her awards include fellowships from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. She served as series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 and is co-editor for Flash Fiction America, an anthology forthcoming from W.W. Norton. (Photo credit: Richard Kelly)
Submissions open on Wednesday! Submit up to 1,000 words of your best flash fiction. Fifteen stories will be selected for the shortlist and Sherrie Flick will select the winners. See our Flash Fiction page for information on previous contests.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
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Winner receives $3000 and publication
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Second and third place prizes are $300 and $200 respectively and publication
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Stories under 1,000 words
- $20 entry fee allows up to two stories – if submitting two stories, please put them both in a SINGLE document.
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Previously unpublished stories only
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Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed
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Emerging writers only (We are interested in offering a larger platform to new writers. Self-published writers and writers with story collections and novels with a small circulation are welcome to submit.)
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International submissions allowed
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Deadline: May 31st, 2020
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Please no identifying information on your story
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All stories are considered for publication
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Dazzle us
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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.