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Selected 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.
"In this debut, Nick Almeida offers prose both precise and startling, stories that provide surprise upon surprise. Masterplans is a hilarious and original collection. This is the work of a bold and sure new writer." - Toni Jensen, author of Carry and From the Hilltop
"There's more of the stuff of life packed into this little chapbook than you're going to find in pretty much any novel you might read this year. The title story is nothing less than a masterpiece, and every story here pulses and thrums with humor, heartbreak, terror, charm, and wry, hard-won wisdom. Nick Almeida has written a stunner of a debut, and I can't wait to see what this lavishly gifted young writer delivers next." - Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Beautiful Country Burn Again
Selected 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.
"In this debut, Nick Almeida offers prose both precise and startling, stories that provide surprise upon surprise. Masterplans is a hilarious and original collection. This is the work of a bold and sure new writer." - Toni Jensen, author of Carry and From the Hilltop
"There's more of the stuff of life packed into this little chapbook than you're going to find in pretty much any novel you might read this year. The title story is nothing less than a masterpiece, and every story here pulses and thrums with humor, heartbreak, terror, charm, and wry, hard-won wisdom. Nick Almeida has written a stunner of a debut, and I can't wait to see what this lavishly gifted young writer delivers next." - Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Beautiful Country Burn Again
56 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2022
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May 9, 2023
Gorgeously written, funny, poignant, sneakily poetic… hapless men just doing their best, women reaching for more… grief as it manifests in the quotidian, borne with chins up. Each story made me tear up a little, reminders of how people manage to muddle through life with a bit of dignity
August 25, 2022
"His intuition had always been his gift. He knew Bush would level Baghdad, he felt a tingling on his neck the day Philip Seymour Hoffman died, and he somehow predicted that he himself would blow the lead in the final inning of the final game of '88 Little League World Series, that he'd return with his silent teammates to a hotel in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, while one room over Team Japan roared in delight, that he'd have to watch himself repeat the mistake--a hanging fastball, just above the batter's belt--on ESPN feeds for years, each time looking into his own childhood face, and wondering, Why? What now? and, will I ever move on?"
July 18, 2025
A sharp, blistering collection. Each story packs a punch well beyond its weight. Some of the best flash fiction I've read.
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