That’s right, folks! We’re pleased to be working with Ye Chun for the 2021-2022 Winter Short Story Award for New Writers! The contest will be open from December 1st through the end of January. We’re looking for the best short stories and essays, up to 6,000 words. The Masters Review staff will select a shortlist of 15 entries to pass along to Ms. Ye, who will pick her favorite three for the finalist spots. The grand prize offers $3,000, publication online and agency review! Find the full details below or on our contest page.
Ye Chun 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.
Ye Chun is a bilingual Chinese American writer and literary translator. Her collection of stories, Hao (Catapult, 2021), was an Indie Next Selection and was longlisted for 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She has also published two books of poetry, Travel Over Water and Lantern Puzzle, a novel in Chinese,《海上的桃树》(Peach Tree in the Sea), and four volumes of translations. A recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and three Pushcart Prizes, she teaches at Providence College and lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Visit her at yechunauthor.com. (photo credit Mira Feifei Ye-Flanagan)
Submissions open on December 1st! Submit up to 6,000 words of your best work. Fifteen stories will be selected by the editorial staff, and Ye Chun will select the three finalists from that shortlist. See our Short Story Award page for more details.
Guidelines:
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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Previously unpublished stories only
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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 are welcome to submit. Writers with novels published with small circulations (around 5000 copies) can also submit.)
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International English submissions allowed
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$20 entry fee
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Deadline: January 31st, 2022
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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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A significant portion of the editorial letter fees go to our feedback editor, according to the rates established by the EFA
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.