Welcome, writer. The winning story of the Fall Fiction Contest will be paid $2000, awarded publication online in The Masters Review, and will receive a note from the judge on why the story was selected. Second and third place stories will be awarded publication and $200 and $100, respectively, as well as correspondence from the judge. Fifteen finalists will be acknowledged in December and the winners will be selected from that pool.

GUIDELINES:

• Submissions are open from Sept 15 – Nov 15
  
• 7000 word limit
• Fiction only
• 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 are welcome to submit.)
• $20 to enter
• Previously unpublished work only
• Multiple and simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please notify us if your story is accepted elsewhere
• International submissions allowed