F – The Masters Review Chapbook Open for Emerging Writers

This year, The Masters Review is holding an open call for chapbooks. They want to publish your collections of flash, your mini novellas, your 40-page short stories, your braided essays, your eclectic brainchildren, your experiments. However you want to tell your story, they want to read it.

Guidelines:

• Winner receives $3000, manuscript publication, and 50 contributor copies
• Second and third place finalists will be acknowledged on our website
• Manuscripts should be between 25-40 pages (not including front/back matter) with each story beginning on a new page
• Manuscripts should be double-spaced and paginated
• Manuscripts should include a Table of Contents (if necessary) and an acknowledgements page listing any previously published material within the manuscript
• Manuscripts may contain some previously published work, but the published work cannot have appeared in any other chapbook or full-length collections
• Self-published chapbooks are previously published and therefore ineligible
• No poetry chapbooks, please (we will consider chapbooks which contain some prose poetry)
• Electronic submissions only
• Single author manuscripts only
• International English submissions allowed (No translations)
• Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed (Please withdraw submissions if they are accepted elsewhere.)
• Emerging writers only (We are interested in offering a larger platform to new writers. Self-published writers and writers with story collections and novels with a small circulation (fewer than 5000 copies) are welcome to submit.)
• Individual stories or essays within the manuscript may be considered for publication in our New Voices series
• We are not requiring blind submissions for this contest
• Editorial letters for up to 3 individual pieces within the manuscript may be requested
• A significant portion of the editorial letter and manuscript consultation fees go to our feedback editor, according to the rates established by the EFA
• Please e-mail contact at mastersreview.com with questions