The Masters Review Best Emerging Writers 2025

Hopes and hauntings, uncertain futures faced with determination: This anthology has it all. The Masters Review's Best Emerging Writers 2025 features ten short stories and essays from promising writers around the world, selected by guest judge Andrew Porter. "Every one of [these stories and essays] will delight you, surprise you," Porter writes in his introduction. "In the face of whatever uncertainty people might be feeling in their lives right now, the art being made during this time is very affirming... if for no other reason than the fact that it is so very good."