We love flash fiction at The Masters Review. That’s why we award $3000 to the best story under 1,000 submitted to our annual flash fiction contest. This year’s winning writers will be selected by guest judge Kathy Fish, and each of the 3 finalists will earn a spot in Kathy Fish’s Fast Flash online workshop!
DEADLINE: MAY 31
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JUDGING
Kathy Fish has published five collections of short fiction, most recently Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018, from Matter Press. Her award-winning short stories, prose poems, and flash fictions have been published in Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Electric Literature, Guernica, and elsewhere. Fish’s “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild,” which addresses the scourge of America’s gun violence and mass shootings, will appear in an upcoming edition of The Norton Reader. The piece was also selected by Sheila Heti for Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, and by Aimee Bender for Best Small Fictions 2018. Fish’s work was previously chosen for the 2017 edition of Best Small Fictions by Amy Hempel and for the 2016 edition by Stuart Dybek. Additionally, two of Fish’s stories are featured in the W.W. Norton anthology, New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction. She is a core faculty member in fiction for the Mile High MFA at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. She also teaches her own intensive online flash workshop, Fast Flash©. For more information, see her website: kathy-fish.com.
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
- All 3 finalists receive place in one of Kathy Fish’s online Fast Flash© Workshops
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Stories under 1000 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Previously unpublished stories only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, 2019
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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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To view a list of our most commonly asked questions regarding submitting to The Masters Review, please see our FAQ page
The Masters Review will select a shortlist of 15 stories, and Kathy Fish will determine the winning 3. Find more details here!
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