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Winner of the 2022 Palette Poetry Chapbook Prize, to be in & of is the debut chapbook of poet, anti-carceral advocate, and black studies scholar Joshua Aiken. Diving into the perils and contradictions of how black life is grieved in America, Aiken presses on the narratives of what it means to mourn, inherit, and belong. A meditation on family, loneliness, depression, and survivor's guilt, these poems break open new ways of living within loss a...

Join eleven talented writers for a compelling journey through the intricate web of young hearts and complicated relationships. This spellbinding anthology of young adult literature, is a fusion of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction that explores the exciting heights of falling in love, the scorching pain of heartbreak, and the forever fight for identity. All the Ways a Heart Burns brings together a diverse collection of voices that wil...

Discover the exciting, diverse world of young adult literature in this anthology of short stories and poetry published by Voyage YA. Explore the bonds of brotherhood, the trials of first love, the complexity of self-discovery, and more in this collection of deeply emotional work from some of the most talented writers in the young adult category. Featuring works from both established and up-and-coming authors, these stories and poems tackl...

In my dreams/I love like an idea is a wandering reckoning with living, loving, and medicalized mental illness. The collection begins with a diagnosis with Bipolar Disorder, and spills from there, rupturing toward rest, tenderness, togetherness, breath, and against prescription-as Raso bleeds together the personal and the clinical, the telescopic and the microscopic, the avoidant and the intimate. Parodying the voices and forms of self-help, se...

Fractured Lit is looking for flash fiction that lingers long past the first reading. We're searching for flash that investigates the mysteries of being human, the sorrow, and the joy of connecting to the diverse population around us. We want the stories that explode vertically, the flash that leaves the conventional and the clichéd far behind. Fractured Lit is a flash fiction-centered place for all writers of any background and experience. Thi...

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...

Color and light and life invigorate Xiao Yue Shan's de- but chapbook-or, in her own words: "a thrill of poppy and chrysanthemum". How Often I Have Chosen Love explores the rediscovery of her nuanced and complex family, her nuanced and complex sense of home, the nuanced and complex history of China. From the flag in Tiananmen Square to the apartments of San Francisco, Shan complicates our sense of home and history by filling every reflection an...

Selected from hundreds of submissions by New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Groff, the 10 stories in this anthology represent the talented new voices in fiction and creative nonfiction. This is a collection that showcases America's next bestselling authors-the who's who of emerging talent-exclusively through previously unpublished work. The authors showcased here are all students currently enrolled in graduate-level creative-writing prog...

This anthology is an exclusive look at the country's most promising new writers. These 10 stories of extraordinary literary merit represent a showcase of talented writing through original pieces of fiction and narrative nonfiction, chosen for publication by New York Times-bestselling author, AM Homes. This anthology speaks to a readership with an appreciation of short literary fiction and compelling narrative nonfiction. Selected stories inclu...

The ten best stories from writers in graduate-level creative writing programs. Ten writers to watch. Stories Selected by Lev Grossman.

The Masters Review Volume VIwith stories selected by Roxane Gay"Gormley" by Chris Arp"Steal Away" by Nicole Cuffy"Confessions of a Lady-In-Waiting" by Rachel Engelman"Migrations" by Michele Host"Hope Gold" by Leslie Jones"A Man Stands Tall" by Gabriel Moseley"This is an Exercise in Detachment" by Amy Purcell"Little Men" by Matthew Sullivan"Speakers of Other Languages" by Maria Thomas"Out of Our Suffering" by Kasey Thornton

The Masters Review is an annual collection of short stories by today's best emerging writers. Each year a guest judge selects the ten best stories out of a pool of thousands, hoping to showcase work by writers we believe will continue to produce great work.

The Masters Review Volume VII With Stories And Essays Selected by Rebecca Makkai! This is our seventh volume - our best anthology yet. The anthology was published in October 2018. Stories and Essays from today's best emerging writers with an introduction from one of literature's most celebrated authors, Rebecca Makkai. What does it mean to be an emerging writer? All I know is that I was labeled as such at one point-I was invited to several f...

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. by Cole Meyer (Editor), Dara Kell (Contributor), Leeyee Lim (Contributor), Jack Foraker (Contributor), Barbara Litkowski (Contributor), Charisse Kubr (Contributor), Rachel Markels Webbe...

This is our eighth volume! The anthology was published in December 2019. Stories and Essays from today's best emerging writers with an introduction from the queen of fairy tales herself, Kate Bernheimer. "Electric Guests" by Naïma Msechu, "American Crusader" by Lavanya Vasudevan, "Chlorine" by Kate Bucca, "Lida" by Belal Rafiq, "Quiet Guest" by Dawna Kemper, "June" by V. Efua Prince, "Paper Boats" by Lydia Martín, "Face to Face" by Jenna Geisi...

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. You can purchase Volume X on Amazon and Barnes & Noble! "Do Not Duplicate" by John Darcy "A String of Lapis Beads" by Greg Schutz "All That Is or Ever Was or Ever Will Be" by Eliana Ramage "Comfort Animals" by Travis Eisenbise "Persimmon" by ...

Masterplans Available NowSelected by Steve Almond for winner of The Masters Review's Chapbook Open for Emerging Writers.Nick Almeida's writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Pleiades, American Literary Review, The Southeast Review, Waxwing, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. He is a PhD candidate at University of Houston and holds an MFA from The Michener Center for Writers. His chapbook, Masterplans, is the grand prize winner of The ...

Johnson recounts what it means to live after assault and navigate once-safe spaces now haunted by pain. The speaker talks to old friends, wakes from troubling dreams, has physically intimate moments, even watches television. Yet none of these moments are free from the haunting presence of trauma. With shifting yet repetitive form, sharp imagery, and mesmerizing vulnerability, Opportunity Cost seeks not to be healed, but to be heard.¿