Every year The Masters Review opens submissions to produce our anthology, a collection of ten stories and essays written by the best emerging authors. Our aim is to showcase ten writers who we believe will continue to produce great work. The ten winners are nationally distributed in a printed book with their stories and essays exposed to top agents, editors, and authors across the country. Our third volume was awarded the Silver Medal for Best Short Story Collection through the INDIEFAB Awards in 2015, and our fourth volume was an honorable mention for best anthology.
The Masters Review: 2012
If you're looking for the best of new and upcoming authors, congratulations: you've found it. This collection consists of the top ten short stories of 2012, with beautiful prose, brilliant characters, and storytelling you'll want to come back to again and again.
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The Masters Review Volume 2
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.
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The Masters Review Volume 4
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 The Masters Review Volume 4 contains ten of the best stories from previously unpublished authors, all of which will leave you eager to see where these writers go next.
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The Masters Review Volume 5
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.
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The Masters Review Volume 6
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!
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The Masters Review Volume 7
The seventh volume of the masters review holds ten of the best essays and short stories from emerging writers, all handpicked by Rebecca Makai!
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The Masters Review Volume 8
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!
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The Masters Review Volume 9
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.
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The Masters Review Volume 10
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.
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