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The Missouri Review Fine publisher of contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry since 1978. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSZ8ZnO9H-fj7b-7g-VbUhw

02/25/2025

“Nobody Move Or This Guy Gets It” by Jeff Whitney is our Poem of the Week.

Read the poem and the artist's statement here: https://missourireview.com/nobody-move-or-this-guy-gets-it-by-jeff-whitney/

02/22/2025

Happy Friday, y'all. Just a quick reminder that NEXT WEEK Jericho Brown will be right here in Columbia for the third installment of the Miller Conversations on Literary Publishing check out our site for details, let us know if you're coming through our eventbrite... it's all in the newsletter. Also, the Perkoff Prize, the latest Poem of the Week & BLAST from Annaka Saari and Eloise Austin, respectively. Check it out! https://mailchi.mp/moreview.com/jericho-brown-is-next-week

02/17/2025

“A Curious Thing” by Annaka Saari is our Poem of the Week.

Read the poem and the artist's statement here: https://missourireview.com/a-curious-thing-by-annaka-saari/

02/15/2025

Happy Valentine's Day, y'all. Great stuff on the site, like a brand-new BLAST from Eloise Austin, your Poem of the Week from Matt Poindexter, a Perkoff reminder and Jericho Brown is just under two weeks away. Check it out! - https://mailchi.mp/moreview.com/brand-new-blast-from-eloise-austin

02/10/2025

“‘Magnificat'” by Matt Poindexter is our Poem of the Week.

Read the poem and the artist's statement here: https://missourireview.com/magnificat-by-matt-poindexter/

02/07/2025

Hello, friends. This week's newsletter includes a reminder about the Perkoff Prize and the upcoming Miller Conversations series even with Jericho Brown, as well as a new Poem of the Week from Rebecca Griswold! Get into it, won't you? https://mailchi.mp/moreview.com/reminder-the-2025-perkoff-prize-is-open

02/03/2025

“Sound and Vision” by Rebecca Griswold is our Poem of the Week.

Read the poem and the artist's statement here: https://missourireview.com/sound-and-vision-by-rebecca-griswold/

01/31/2025

Happy Friday, y'all: here's the newest newsletter, featuring a brand-new BLAST from Mellissa Sojourner, a reminder about the now open 2025 Perkoff Prize, Poem of the Week from James Ciano, & more! https://mailchi.mp/moreview.com/brand-new-blast-from-mellissa-sojourner

01/27/2025

“The Committee of Men (Haze)” by James Ciano is our Poem of the Week.

Read the poem and the artist's statement here: https://missourireview.com/the-committee-of-men-haze-by-james-ciano/

01/24/2025

Writers, readers, and friends: the 2025 Perkoff Prize is now open! Get the details and check out the latest Featured Prose from Shannon Cain, plus Poem of the Week from Simone Muench and Jackie K. White, and more! https://mailchi.mp/moreview.com/the-2025-perkoff-prize-is-now-open

01/20/2025

“Dora and Dorothea Amber the Interior” by Simone Muench and Jackie K. White is our Poem of the Week.

Read the poem and the artists' statement here: https://missourireview.com/dora-and-dorothea-amber-the-interior-by-simone-muench-and-jackie-k-white/

01/17/2025

Hi y'all: enjoy a new BLAST from Erik Reece and catch up with this week's Poem of the Week from M.B. McLatchey! - https://mailchi.mp/moreview.com/new-blast-from-erik-reece

01/13/2025

“Full Disclosure” by M.B. McLatchey is our Poem of the Week.

Read the poem and the artist's statement here: https://missourireview.com/full-disclosure-by-m-b-mclatchey/

01/10/2025

Check out the latest BLAST from Maura Lammers, this week's Poem of the Week from Claire Jean Kim, and more! https://mailchi.mp/moreview.com/brand-new-blast-from-maura-lammers

01/08/2025

Hi y'all, it's time: announcing the winners of the 2024 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize 🙌

Also, we're very excited to announce that 2024 MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown will be joining us for the third installment of our Miller Conversations on Literary Publishing series in late February. Check out the newsletter for more! - https://mailchi.mp/moreview.com/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2024-editors-prize

01/06/2025

“Amsterdam” by Claire Jean Kim is our Poem of the Week.

Read the poem and the artist's statement here: https://missourireview.com/amsterdam-by-claire-jean-kim/

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Great news: the deadline for the 2024 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize has been extended to October 21! Check out our website for more details. #shortstories #poetry #creativenonfiction #writingcontests

Greetings, writers of the internets: the 34th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize is now open for entries. Send us your hilarious, heartbreaking, moving, mind-altering epiphanies and meditations in the form of poems, short stories, or essays (or all three) for a chance to win $5000, promotion, and publication in the Spring 2025 issue of The Missouri Review. We can't wait to encounter your brilliance! Learn more here: https://missourireview.com/contests/jeffrey-e-smith-editors-prize/

36 hours left... we want to see your stories, poems, and essays: enthrall us, make us laugh, cry, and sing! You know what to do: https://missourireview.com/contests/jeffrey-e-smith-editors-prize/

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Just over a week to enter your best stories, poems, and/or essays for the 2023 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize!

Just one week left to enter the 2023 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize. Give us the opportunity to read your best stories, poems, and essays: https://missourireview.com/contests/jeffrey-e-smith-editors-prize/

The deadline for the 2023 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize has been extended to Monday, October 16th (midnight PST). That means you still have two weeks to get the particulars and character shades into that story just the way you want, to layer in the last second insights into that essay, two weeks for your poems to reveal their most recent, sparkling selves. We are thrilled to read your work and deeply honored that you would entrust it to us. If it is with us, or if it is to come, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Today until 10 p.m. CST, TMR is offering a 40% discount on entering the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize. Submit poems, stories, and/or essays at $15 per entry, with the same perks + the promise to consider each entry for publication.

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TMR Editors' Prize 2020

The deadline for this year's Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize draws nigh, but there's still time! https://www.missourireview.com/contests/jeffrey-e-smith-editors-prize/