The Masters Review: 2020 in Review

December 21, 2020

We are grateful that 2020 is coming to a close, and even more grateful for all of you this year. This year, we were blessed to publish so many excellent new stories and essays, submitted by you to New Voices and our contests. Thank you so much for your continued support, and we wish you well this holiday season!

Terraforming Mars by Emmett Knowlton (January 2020)

Mutts by Shane Page (January 2020 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Escape Velocity by Karisa Tell (January 2020 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Ghost Story by Becca Anderson (January 2020 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Adult Education by Laura Maylene Walter (February 2020)

Russian Roulette by Lauren Green (February 2020)

Jessica’s Body by Catherine Mitchell (February 2020)

Obscure Sorrows by Ndinda Kioko (March 2020)

Skin Hunger by Melissa Goode (March 2020)

And Then? by Sara Brody (March 2020)

Genealogy by Nancy London (April 2020)

It Could Happen To You by Trent England (April 2020 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Shenzhen by Willa Zhang (April 2020 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Salt-Sea by Zeeva Bukai (April 2020 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Rereading Stephen King on the Eve of My MFA by Steph Grossman (May 2020)

Taking Mr. Itopa by Caleb Ozovehe Ajinomoh (May 2020)

The Monster in Back Bruly by Kailyn McCord (June 2020)

This is for My Auntie Penzi Who— by Idza Luhumyo (June 2020)

You Can’t Take it With You by Jami Kimbrell (June 2020)

The Road Takes the Shape of the Earth Beneath It by Jeremy Packert Burke (June 2020)

Sorry About Your Bird by Kathryn M. Barber (June 2020)

Compound Fractures by Alice Hatcher (July 2020)

Rapture by Chloe Chun Seim (July 2020 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

The Easiest Thing in the World by Taylor Grieshober (July 2020 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

Joe Blake by Raeden Richardson (July 2020 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

The Driver by Samantha Xiao Cody (August 2020 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

The Photograph on the Wall by Ope Adedeji (August 2020)

Different by Sindya Bhanoo (August 2020)

Inheritance by Adam Byko (August 2020)

Running From Blackness by Allen M. Price (September 2020)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by Rosemary Harp (September 2020)

Catch and Release by Grace Holtzclaw (September 2020)

Escaping by Tom Lakin (September 2020)

Not Dead. Yet, (Golem Father) by Nathan Szajnberg (October 2020)

Trucker’s Notebook by Nicole Roché (October 2020)

Fire Season by Vincent Chavez (October 2020)

Heirlooms by Amanda Jean Akers (October 2020 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Consider the Shape of Your Fist by Leah Dawdy (November 2020 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Crocodile by Ashleigh Pedersen (November 2020 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Shootout in Prospect Park by Chuck Nwoke (November 2020)

That Kind of Girl by Stephanie Wheeler (November 2020)

Love is Such a Morphing Thing by Ugochukwu Damian Okpara (December 2020)

An Ordinary Ache by Bikram Sharma (December 2020)

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