Best Of

Women's Prize for Fiction winner and bestselling author, AM Homes, selects stories for our second volume. With work from authors in graduate programs around the world, this collection represents ten unique, talented, and diverse voices.

The Masters Review Vol. 5 contains the ten best short stories of 2016, including work guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, and delve a little deeper into what it means to be human.

The Masters Review's sixth volume contains the best in short fiction and essays, all from new authors and all selected by Roxane Gay. You won't want to miss these beautiful works of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction!

The seventh volume of the masters review holds ten of the best essays and short stories from emerging writers, all handpicked by Rebecca Makai!

The Masters Review presents stories and essays from today's best emerging writers with an introduction from the queen of fairy tales herself, Kate Bernheimer!

The Masters Review presents its ninth volume, a showcase of today's best emerging writers. Endorsed and selected by award-winning author, Rick Bass, The Masters Review continues its mission of championing new writers by publishing these ten excellent stories.

The Masters Review Volume X With Stories Selected by Diane Cook! The anthology was published in May 2022. Stories from today's best emerging writers with an introduction from the marvelous Diane Cook.

This finalist for the INDIEFAB Award for Best Short Story and Best Anthology compiles the very best short fiction the from up-and-coming authors of 2015! The Masters Review Volume 4 contains ten of the best stories from previously unpublished authors, all of which will leave you eager to see where these writers go next.

The 2021 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest winner, Opportunity Cost is a powerful, honest discussion of what it means to live after an assault, and how to navigate the world in the aftermath.

We’re back with the second edition of our annual anthology of the future of flash fiction. We partnered with the acclaimed writer, Deesha Philyaw, to pick the best twenty stories of 1,000 words or fewer. 

Xiao Yue Shan's debut chapbook, winner of the 2018 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, is rich, vivid, and will leave you wanting more. Get your copy of "How Often Have I Chosen Love" today!