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The Masters Review Anthology XII Seeks Emerging Writers
Every year The Masters Review opens submissions to produce our anthology, a collection of ten stories and essays written by the best emerging authors.
The Herd by Ryan Poirier
First Prize, Graphic Novel & Memoir, 2021 North Street Book Prize
Subscriber News: March 2022
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
OLD-Critiques for Children’s Picture Books
Expert private critiques of children’s picture books, published or unpublished
Michal ‘MJ’ Jones
Michal 'MJ' Jones (they/he), final judge of our Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, is an award-winning poet, parent, and editor living in Oakland, CA. Their poetry has appeared in the American Academy of Poets, Obsidian, Split This Rock, Muzzle Magazine, TriQuarterly Review, ANMLY, and elsewhere. Their debut collection of poetry,…
Publications That Pay Freelancers for Book Reviews and Interviews
Writer and editor Adam Morgan compiled this list of paying markets in 2022
Sunspot Literary Journal
Lit mag that appreciates longform pieces, translations, and diverse voices
I’ll Meet You in Your Dreams
By Jessica Young, illustrated by Rafael López
The Little Mermaid
By Jerry Pinkney
My First Book of Haiku Poems
Translated by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, illustrated by Tracy Gallup
The Book Rescuer
By Sue Macy, illustrated by Stacy Innerst
Comma
By Harris Gardner
Tinnitus
By Barbara Regenspan
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C. Vargas McPherson Wins the $5,000 Grand Prize in Our Seventh Annual North Street Book Prize Competition for Self-Published Books
Results of our seventh annual competition for self-published books
Subscriber News: February 2022
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Subnivean Awards
If your poetry is madly ablaze or your fiction is weird, wild and wonderful—or both—consider entering the Subnivean Awards
Weird Old Book Finder
Quirky search engine pulls up the full text of public-domain books from the 18th century to the 1920s
Rhyme Zone
Free online rhyme-generator
The Table Read Magazine—FREE Promotion for Writers, Artists, and Creatives
We want to offer a platform to creatives around the world to share their work with our audience, and excite our readers with their stories.
My Pants by Nicole Kohr
First Prize for Children’s Picture Book in the 2021 North Street Book Prize competition
Inheriting Our Names by C. Vargas McPherson
Winner of the Grand Prize in the 2021 North Street Book Prize competition
Special District: Harbin
Critique by Jendi Reiter Murder mysteries and police procedurals are some of my favorite genres to read for pleasure. At last, in Tim Stickel's historical mystery Special District: Harbin, we've found one worthy of a North Street Book Prize. Set in 1929, in a Chinese border city that's a crossroads…
The Poser
Critique by Jendi Reiter The COVID lockdown of 2020 felt like a throwback to an era of home-based artisanry. To balance our sudden overdependence on screens, and make up for the lack of professional public entertainment, people baked sourdough bread, landscaped their yards, and shifted from being consumers to creators…
#porchportraits
Critique by Jendi Reiter In the pandemic's first months, when we were suddenly deprived of everyday encounters with our communities, a new genre of documentary photography sprang up. Local photographers in neighborhoods across the country posed families outdoors for socially distanced portraits, a morale-building effort to re-create our sense of…
As Waters Gone By
Critique by Jendi Reiter Natural disasters undermine not only our physical infrastructure but our structures of meaning. Why were some spared when their loved ones died? Does it help or harm the victims to analyze how they may have put themselves in danger? Dr. Asome Bide's memoir As Waters Gone…
Choosing Life: My Father’s Journey in Film from Hollywood to Hiroshima
Critique by Jendi Reiter Leslie A. Sussan probes questions of historical memory and propaganda in her illuminating memoir Choosing Life: My Father's Journey in Film from Hollywood to Hiroshima. Now an appellate judge, Sussan has been a U.S. Department of Justice attorney and an advocate for migrant workers and abused…
Operaland
Critique by Jendi Reiter Ian Strasfogel's novel Operaland is a comical romp infused with love for opera and the hardworking eccentrics who bring it to the stage. It's about following your dreams and coping with the changes that success brings, both good and bad. Like Susan Boyle on “The Voice”,…
Wildflowers
Critique by Jendi Reiter Delores Lowe Friedman's Wildflowers is an emotionally rich and intimate novel that follows a decades-long friendship among three Black women in New York City. Their complex and shifting relationships encompass crisis support, joys and secrets shared, estrangement, and jealousy. This story celebrates the power of women's…
All Time
Critique by Jendi Reiter Time travel is a seemingly inexhaustible trope in speculative fiction. It's a vehicle for exploring the paradox of free will versus fate. It speaks to the hope that we could understand past cultures as they truly were, not only as a projection of present-day concerns. Miranda…
The Man Who Beat Death Valley
Critique by Jendi Reiter Deborah A. Fox's thoroughly researched graphic narrative The Man Who Beat Death Valley reconstructs an adventurous episode in the life of William Lewis Manly, a 19th-century pioneer. Lured West by the Gold Rush and the promise of cheap land in the Oregon Territory, his party of…
The Herd
Critique by Jendi Reiter If you like furries, BoJack Horseman, Animaniacs, or juice bars, have I got a story for you: Ryan Poirier's graphic novel The Herd, a madcap spoof of superhero comics, in which a fruit juice company's secret ingredient sets off a city-wide war between good and evil…
Best Evidence
Critique by Jendi Reiter Mark Osaki's pensive, resonant poetry collection Best Evidence sifts through memories of Asian-American family life, against the backdrop of America's appetite for waging war on people who look like him. In the opening section, the poem “Marginal Notes from a Los Alamos Journal” foreshadows the Cold…
The Saugus Book
Critique by Jendi Reiter When I encountered Thomas Sheehan's The Saugus Book, the word that recurred in my mind to describe these poems was “mature”. Even had his cover letter not mentioned that this accomplished craftsman was in his 94th year, his poetry's philosophical tone and control of language bespeak…
Mighty May Won’t Cry Today
Critique by Jendi Reiter A picture book about social-emotional skills has to do double duty, conveying a straightforward solution to an age-appropriate problem while also being fun to read. Kendra and Claire-Voe Ocampo's Mighty May Won't Cry Today aces the assignment. Erica De Chavez's illustrations pop with festive shades of…
M Is for Masks
Critique by Jendi Reiter For young people today, the COVID-19 pandemic is a defining feature of their childhoods. We can hope that someday, picture books like Randi Hacker's clever abecedarium M Is for Masks will mainly be treasured for their nostalgia value, like those Cold War “duck-and-cover” ads. While we're…
My Pants
Critique by Jendi Reiter As a parent and a self-diagnosed person on the spectrum, I've read a lot of picture books about kids with autism and related conditions, but none were as satisfying, or full of love, as Nicole Kohr's My Pants. Chelsea Rosado's cozy and colorful illustrations show that…
Inheriting Our Names
Critique by Jendi Reiter Inheriting Our Names, C. Vargas McPherson's lyrical account of the Spanish Civil War's impact on her family, is subtitled “An imagined true memoir of Spain's pact of forgetting.” This paradoxical description expresses the dual consciousness of living with traumatic memories that one's society refuses to acknowledge.…
Kendra and Claire-Voe Ocampo
Claire-Voe and Kendra Ocampo have cried many tears together since falling in love in Boston and getting married in 2014 in New Jersey, just months after same-sex marriage became legal in the state. They're two moms to three mighty daughters, Xiomara, Violet, and Skylar, who cry often (and that's okay!)…
Asome Bide
I was born and raised in Nyandong, a small remote village in the South-West Region of Cameroon, to peasant cocoa farmers. In 1992, I migrated to America and embraced a new culture that would have a lasting impact on my view of some aspects of the American culture and the…
Leslie Sussan
I was born and raised in Manhattan. My father was a television producer, and we followed his work to California, living for three years in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. None of us felt at home in the sunny world of rich celebrities. In short order, my father fell out…
Ian Strasfogel
My father was a coach and conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and I grew up in the opera house. I sang (not very well) in the Met's Boys Chorus and would hurriedly change into my street clothes to sneak out front to see the rest of the show. No doubt…
Delores Lowe Friedman
Dichotomies—my childhood was a collage of contrasts—a hodge-podge of competing colors, textures, sounds, and sensations. I was not always permitted to give voice to how I felt. So, I saved up my feelings like fireflies in a jar. And when I am lucky, they stir, and they tap on the…
Mack Leonard
Mack Leonard is a winner of the James White Award for Science Fiction and an Honoree of The Year's Best Science Fiction of 2015. His works have been published in the United States, United Kingdom, and Italy. His latest work is the All Time series. Camera of choice: BMPCC4K with…
Tim Stickel
I am a native of Washington state and still live in the Seattle area. I have been an avid student of all areas of history for as long as I can remember. So naturally, I studied it at the University of Washington and received a BA in History in 1973,…
Deborah A. Fox
Deborah A. Fox is an award-winning mixed-media artist and author who works in digital art, computer graphics and effects, painting, and photography. Deb uses all her talents in her latest passion, graphic novel creation. In 2016, Deb created her first graphic novel, Everett Massacre, combining her love of writing with…
Ryan Poirier
A lifelong passion (obsession) for drawing and writing stories led me down the path of being an entrepreneur artist and author. I graduated college with a degree in multimedia design and went on to work for different television and media companies. However, I was only finding contract work versus something…
Maya Stein
Maya Stein is a Ninja poet, writing guide, and creative adventuress. At nearly 9 years old, she wrote her first poem (“Papa Tree and the Seasons”) and earned perfect scores on her spelling test six weeks in a row, an accomplishment noted in her report card by Mrs. Madison at…
Jan Regan
I began my life as a photographer with a Kodak Instamatic 104. It was 1966, and I was captivated. Years later, when it came time to apply to college, I wrote a letter to the editor of National Geographic, asking if I should go to a school that offered technical…
Mark Osaki
Mark S. Osaki was born in Sacramento, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley as an Alumni Scholar and went on to do graduate work in International Relations and Security Studies. His work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including: The Georgia Review, Carrying the Darkness—The Poetry of…
