The Masters Review is excited to announce our new contest! Replacing the annual Fall Contest, The Chapbook Contest will honor the best single-author prose chapbook by an emerging writer! The winning writer will receive $3,000, manuscript publication, and 50 contributor copies of their award-winning chapbook, which will feature an introduction written by our esteemed guest judge. We will also distribute a digital copy of the winning chapbook to our newsletter. The contest will run until November 15th. Over the course of the next month, we will provide helpful resources to writers compiling their first chapbook. Stay tuned!
Submissions Open through November 15th
Guidelines:
- Winner receives $3000, manuscript publication, and 50 contributor copies
- Second and third place finalists will be acknowledged on our website
- Manuscripts should be between 25-40 pages (not including front/back matter) with each story beginning on a new page
- Manuscripts should be double-spaced and paginated
- Manuscripts should include a Table of Contents (if necessary) and an acknowledgements page listing any previously published material within the manuscript
- Manuscripts may contain some previously published work, but the published work cannot have appeared in any other chapbook or full-length collections
- Self-published collections are previously published and therefore ineligible
- As we are a prose-focused journal, we are not interested in poetry chapbooks, but will consider chapbooks which contain prose poetry
- Electronic submissions only
- Single author manuscripts only
- International English submissions allowed
- Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed (Please withdraw submissions if they are accepted elsewhere.)
- 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. Writers with novels published with a circulation of fewer than 5000 copies can also submit.)
- Entry fee: $25
- Deadline: November 15, 2020
- Individual stories or essays within the manuscript may be considered for publication in our New Voices series
- We are not requiring blind submissions for this contest
- Editorial letters for individual pieces within the manuscript may be requested, but we are unable to provide full manuscript consultations at this time
We don’t have any preferences topically or in terms of style. We’re simply looking for the best. We don’t define, nor are we interested in, stories identified by their genre. We do, however, consider ourselves a publication that focuses on literary fiction. Dazzle us, take chances, and be bold.