The Masters Review’s Short Story Award for New Writers is a bi-annual contest recognizing the best fiction from today’s emerging writers. Winners and honorable mentions receive agency review from five agencies as well as publication. Participating agents include: Nat Sobel from Sobel Weber, Victoria Cappello from The Bent Agency, Andrea Morrison from Writers House, Sarah Fuentes from Fletcher & Company, and Heather Schroder from Compass Talent.
Guidelines:
- Winner receives $3000, publication, and agency review
- 2nd and 3rd place prizes ($300 / $200, publication, agency review)
- Stories under 6000 words
- Previously unpublished stories only
- Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed
- Emerging writers only; writers with book-length work published or under contract with a major press are ineligible. (We are interested in offering a larger platform to new writers. Authors with short story collections are free to submit new, unpublished work, as are writers with books by indie presses or self-published.)
- International English submissions allowed. No translations.
- Double-spaced, 12 pt font (i.e., Times New Roman, Garamond, etc.)
- $20 entry fee
- Deadline: January 31, 2023
- All stories are considered for publication
- All submissions will receive a response by the end of April
- Winners will be announced by the end of May.
- For questions on submitting, please see FAQ page.
If you’re an emerging writer with short stories you love and have labored over, why not throw your hat in the ring? Write on!
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