We are thrilled to announce Kimberly King Parsons as our 2019-2020 Winter Short Story Award! Parsons’s collection Black Light was longlisted for this year’s National Book Award. The Winter Short Story Award will open on December 1st and run through January. Winners will receive publication, a cash prize, and agency review. Check out the details below!
Kimberly King Parsons will select three finalists for our Winter Short Story Award!
The Winter Short Story Award will run from December 1st to January 31st. The winning story will be awarded $3000 and publication online. Second and third place stories will be awarded publication and $300 and $200 respectively. All winners and honorable mentions will receive agency review by: Nat Sobel from Sobel Weber, Victoria Cappello from The Bent Agency, Andrea Morrison from Writers House, Sarah Fuentes from Fletcher & Company and Samantha Fingerhut from Compass Talent. We want you to succeed, and we want your writing to be read. It’s been our mission to support emerging writers since day one.
Kimberly King Parsons is the author of the short story collection Black Light (Vintage), long listed for the 2019 National Book Award, and the novel The Boiling River, forthcoming from Knopf. A recipient of fellowships from Columbia University and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, her fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Best Small Fictions 2017, Black Warrior Review, No Tokens, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She lives with her partner and sons in Portland, OR, where she is completing a novel about Texas, motherhood, and LSD.
Submissions open on Sunday! Submit up to 6,000 words of your best work. Fifteen stories will be selected by the editorial staff, and Kimberly King Parsons will select the three finalists from that shortlist. See our Short Story Award page for more details.
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Winner receives $3000, publication, and agency review
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Second and third place prizes ($300 / $200, publication, and agency review)
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Stories under 6000 words
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Previously unpublished stories only
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Translations allowed, providing the story has not been published in another language
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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. Writers with novels published with a circulation of fewer than 5000 copies can also submit.)
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International submissions allowed
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$20 entry fee
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Deadline: January 31, 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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If requesting an editorial letter, please indicate on your cover letter if the submissions is fiction or creative nonfiction
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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.