With thanks to Winning Writers:
The
Masters Review is a trusted sponsor
The Masters Review is a trusted
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“As a reader, I crave surprise. I don’t mean
epiphany or some big reveal, but rather the surprise of attention
being paid, the surprise of witness. Stories feel most alive for me
when the writer deploys language and imagination in ways that broaden
or narrow the aperture of our vision. I want to surrender to the
story, to its logic and contours, and I want the world to feel
altered after I’ve turned the last page; I want to be surprised that
the world still exists at all.”
-Bret Anthony Johnston
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The Masters Review Winter Short Story Award for New Writers
welcomes submissions of previously unpublished fiction or creative
nonfiction up to 6,000 words. Our contest is open to any writer
who has not published a novel or memoir with a major press. The first-place winner will receive a
$3,000 grand prize, while the second- and third-place
winners will receive $300 and $200 respectively. We publish all
winning pieces online.
All winners will also receive agency review from
our six partnered agencies. Participating agents include Nat Sobel from Sobel
Weber, Victoria Cappello from
The Bent Agency, Andrea
Morrison from Writers House, Sarah Fuentes from
United Talent Agency, Heather
Schroder from Compass Talent, and Marin Takikawa from
The Friedrich Agency.
Past winners of this award include Nana Nkweti, Nick Fuller
Googins, Katie M.
Flynn, Reena Shah, Rachel
Cochran, and Claire
Boyles, several of whom earned representation from one of
our partnered agents as a result of this contest.
Key Guidelines
• The entry fee is $20.
• Simultaneous and multiple
submissions are allowed, though each submission requires a $20 entry fee.
• This contest is for emerging writers only. Writers with single-author book-length work published
or under contract with a major press are ineligible. We are
interested in providing a platform to new writers;
authors with books published by indie presses are welcome to submit
unpublished work, as are self-published authors.
• International submissions
are allowed, provided the work is written primarily in English. Some
code-switching/meshing is warmly welcomed.
• We are
always happy to help if you have questions. Email us: contact@mastersreview.com.
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Our guest judge Bret
Anthony Johnston is the internationally bestselling
author of We Burn Daylight, Remember Me Like This, and Corpus Christi: Stories. His
work appears in The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories 2011,
and elsewhere. He’s the Director of the Michener Center for Writers.
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