Now in our third year, Fractured Lit is thrilled to bring to print a new collection of flash fiction chosen by Guest Judge Peter Orner. In this collection of resonant and entertaining flash fiction stories, readers will find characters refusing to live in the shadows of their lives, who want to take center stage for the most important moments of their lives and express something about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. Orner, a master of domestic literary fiction, has chosen a new crop of stories that take us from coast to coast and even settings outside the United States. These stories will make you think and feel things without names, entertain, beguile, and leave the reader pondering their own lives. This collection will have you dipping into reading a story or two, taking a break, and returning for more. Each story is a dazzling gem, bringing light to the shadows of these challenging days.
The Masters Review Anthology Volume XII collects ten stories and essays from the best emerging writers around the world, selected by guest judge Toni Jensen.
Equal parts political thriller and tragedy, Coats explores an affair between Alexa, research assistant at a DC think tank, and Isaac, the son of a Russian oligarch, as Russia begins their invasion of Ukraine.
Nann was always wondering. She wondered how airplanes fly. She wondered what was on the other side of the ocean. She wondered where Daddy went in his truck every day. Life is More Than This Covington Pond is an inspiring and heart-warming story about Nann, a little girl who lives on Covington Pond, who dreams with her eyes wide open and always imagines the possibilities. Through Nann's journey, readers will be encouraged to see beyond their surroundings and be limitless in their thinking. This beautifully illustrated book will spark the imagination and motivate readers to dream big and believe that their dreams really can come true!
With Lavender Tea is the continuation of a young author's journey. Dusk, Night, Dawn, and Morning follow them as they keep fighting a harsh world. This path, like the ones before it, lead the little author deeper into the mind. Tour with them to see where they end up after the trip through mental wellbeing.
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 will keep readers on their toes. Expect to be swept away by literature that navigates the whirlwind of first love, delves into experiences that leave scars as deep as they are transformative, and is full of secrets, mysteries, and complexities.
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 and interrogating: "So who is this healing really for?"; With a sense of queer fury and alienation from the world as it is, to be in & of gives voice to speakers concerned with the "costs" of "getting better", the meaning of freedom, and the politics of how we stay alive. In the words of Contest Judge Chen Chen, to be in & of is a "collection full of wondering and wonderment"; and "a constellation of poems spilling over with the vast aches of a heart so attuned to life, loss, and more life." With poems written after poets like Essex Hemphill and Richard Siken, and for figures like the Godfather of House Music Frankie Knuckles, Aiken's language bubbles over with the prospect of more life: the uncertainty, the unpromised, the shadows and ghosts, and the fierce joys, pleasures, and spaces that remind one of all that's left unexplored. This debut invites its reader to be thoroughly entangled with the dead and the living; to delight in the messy process of belonging and becoming, and to experience the beauty of worlds one might someday know.
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 tackle themes of identity, family, love, bravery, and loss. Just Above Water gets to the core of what it means to be a teenager in the modern world.
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.¿¿Each year The Masters Review pairs with a guest judge to select stories. Our editorial team produces a shortlist of stories, which our judge reviews to select winners. Our past judges include Lauren Groff, AM Homes, Lev Grossman, Kevin Brockmeier, Amy Hempel, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Makkai, Kate Bernheimer, Rick Bass, and Diane Cook. This anthology's judge is Peter Ho Davies!
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. This collection is the product of the Fractured Lit Anthology 2 Prize in 2022, judged by Deesha Philyaw.Deesha Philyaw's debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black church, and is being adapted for television by HBO Max with Tessa Thompson executive producing. Deesha is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and the 2022-2023 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.
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 and every moment with the bursting blue light of Hong Kong, the delicate sprawl of blooming vegetation-envisioning a creation myth that seeks to have "no tale of falling." In the voice of a modern woman of two nations, Shan's work finds her deepest authenticity. Her rich palette of color, of flower and nation and jewel, is an achievement only Shan's unique perspective could conceive. Xiao Yue Shan is an emerging poet whose words and heart beat with the exact rhythm of our times.
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 ten best stories from writers in graduate-level creative writing programs. Ten writers to watch. Stories Selected by Lev Grossman.
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 include works by Nelson Algren Finalist, Andrew Payton, and Burning River Chapbook Contest winner, Dustin M. Hoffman, as well as numerous Pushcart Prize nominees.
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 programs across the country.
The conclusion to Valor and Erianna's tale that will keep you guessing and leave you satisfied... EriannaA traitor hides in my court, aiding my enemy and destabilizing my kingdom. Valor and I unleash our spymasters to route the traitor, whom we hope will lead us to the murderous Reuel Zavaan, but each attack on my people makes me more certain that I must stop Zavaan, no matter the cost.>ValorI am in love with the most trying woman the Creator has ever breathed life into. She vacillates between flirtatious and aloof and seems to be weighing my every action against her fears, which are growing into a foe I cannot vanquish.However, we are of one mind regarding the enemy wreaking havoc on our kingdom. Though Erianna has proved herself to be a fierce warrior queen, I am tormented by the knowledge that her safety is illusory while Reuel Zavaan roams free. When Zavaan escapes my sword yet again and steals something irreplaceable, I am forced to consider that which I swore I never would.
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 festivals featuring "emerging writers," all around the time when I had stories out but no novel, or one novel and no clue what was supposed to happen next-and that sometime thereafter, with no warning, I stopped emerging. It felt wildly unfair to me at the time, because wasn't I just a brand new little baby writer with nothing but exciting promise? But no: by the time your second book appears, apparently you've emerged. Recently, I was joking with a couple of friends (writers who "emerged" before I did, and more thoroughly than I ever have) about launching, for those of us who've been around the block, a Submerging Writers Festival.Which is all to say: I know, I remember, that this "emerging" thing is both fun and terrifying. As much as I look back with nostalgic longing at the moment when my first story was accepted for publication-when everything was potential and excitement-it's only now from this point, looking back, that I know what that moment was the start of. At the time, for all I knew, it was a fluke. It was a mistake, soon to be corrected with an awkward follow-up note. The journal would fold before the story came out. A printing error would omit half the piece. No one would even read it. Everyone would read it, in horror that it had been published. When the journal in question finally arrived at my house (nine whole anguishing months later!) I couldn't bear to look directly at the story. I made my husband look at it and check that it was real, that all the words were there, that they'd spelled my name correctly.To judge any contest is daunting, but one for emerging writers is especially so. There's the question, first of all, of what this would mean to the writers chosen-something I have no way of knowing. Is this a writer on the verge of giving up, or one who's received ten acceptances and a six-figure book deal this year? If I squint hard enough, can I tell? (No; I cannot.) And then there's the question of promise versus polish. Everyone here has an abundance of both, but for the final spot, as I'm considering a story weighted more towards spark and promise against one weighted more towards polish... Which way do I go? (Well: spark and promise. But not without a lot of hair-pulling.)To the ten writers chosen, and indeed to all thirty of the writers whose work I was privileged to read and to consider: Yes, this is it. Big things are happening, because you're ready, and the world is a dumpster fire but we need you and we need your stories to take us up above it all. This is it. Ready for liftoff. Let's go. - Introduction by Rebecca Makkai
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 Geisinger, "An English Woman and an Arab Man Walk into a Bar" by H. de C, "Fear" by Divya Sood
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 Elissa C. Huang"The Bird Rattle" by Chelsy Diaz Amaya"Atlas, Bayonet, (War) Correspondence: An Abecedarian" by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt"Sugar" by Francis Walsh"Limbs" by Megan Callahan"Resurrection" by Hilary DeanWith essays from previous winners Monica Macansantos, Jennifer Dupree, Eliza Robertson, Emaa Sloley, Robert Glick, and Anna Reeser.
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 Webber (Contributor), Stefani Nellen (Contributor), Paola Ferrante (Contributor), Emma Choi (Contributor), Stephanie Pushaw (Contributor)
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 Masters Review's inaugural Chapbook Contest in Fiction, selected by judge Steve Almond, and is available now.
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.¿
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