Kate Bernheimer will be selecting stories for The Masters Review Volume VIII
Each year we pair with a guest judge to select stories for our anthology, which acts as a showcase for today’s best emerging writers. The experience and expertise of our judge guides our selections, and we’re excited to work with “one of the living masters of the fairy tale” for our eigth volume.
Kate Bernheimer is the author of two story collections, including How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales and Horse, Flower, Bird, as well as three novels, and editor of the World Fantasy Award winning and bestselling collection My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and the World Fantasy Award nominee xo Orpheus: 50 New Myths. She both founded and edits Fairy Tale Review.
Her nonfiction has been published in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, as well as heard on NPR’s All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. With Laird Hunt, she was recently a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for the co-authored novella Office at Night, a joint commission of Coffee House Press and The Walker Art Center. With her brother, she co-curates the Places series “Fairy Tale Architecture.” Her children’s books, edited books, and short stories have been translated into many languages including Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, and Japanese.
She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she teaches creative writing and fairy tale classes.
Submissions for our anthology will open next week! We accept stories and essays up to 7000 words. Thirty writers are chosen for the shortlist and Kate Bernheimer will select ten to publish. See our anthology page for information on past volumes.
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Previously unpublished works of fiction and narrative nonfiction only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We accept simultaneous submissions as long as work is withdrawn if it is accepted elsewhere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
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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 work 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 reading fee
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Submissions are not limited to writers in the US. All English-language submissions are welcome
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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.