Contact the Editors

If you have feedback or questions about any of the pieces in the anthology, thoughts on the site itself, or suggestions for future development, we'd love to hear from you!

tmranthology [at] missouri [dot] edu

Winners! of our Art of Omission Contest

The Missouri Review and textBOX are delighted to announce the winners of the Art of Omission contest. We asked entrants to compose a short short or poem of 50 words or fewer using only the words contained in an excerpt from Reesa Grushka’s essay “Arieh.” From the 68 entries received, we selected the top five, . . . → Read More: Winners! of our Art of Omission Contest

Pattiann Rogers, Aimee Bender, Deborah Galyan, Robert Olen Butler

TextBOX now has poetry! We’ve posted “The Favorite Dance of the Deaf and Blind Beggar” and “For the Wren Trapped in a Cathedral” by Pattiann Rogers, with more poems on the way soon.

Is there new audio content? There is new audio content.

What about new fiction? Absolutely, my friend. Look inside for links…

 

. . . → Read More: Pattiann Rogers, Aimee Bender, Deborah Galyan, Robert Olen Butler

New postcard design by Sean McCabe

In anticipation of all things fresh and new – the upcoming TMR launch party for the spring Editors’ Prize issue, graduation for many of our interns, summer! – we asked Boston artist Sean McCabe to come up with a new design for outreach and advertising and are very pleased to present the new face of . . . → Read More: New postcard design by Sean McCabe

Mimi Schwartz on Writing “Off the Record”

Check out Mimi Schwartz’s piece on writing her essay, “Off the Record.” In it she discusses how she came to understand that her project of discovering the “truth” of her family’s history was so much more than investigative journalism, and why she chose to write the piece in the first person, an unusual choice for . . . → Read More: Mimi Schwartz on Writing “Off the Record”

New Work and Then Some

As some of you may already know, last week we added two new pieces to textBOX. We are proud to present William Harrison’s short story “Eleven Beds” and Robert Kimber’s essay “Big Jim.”

. . . → Read More: New Work and Then Some

Audio, interviews and more!

Things have been a bit quiet around here lately, but that doesn’t mean we’re not hard at work. Look for exciting developments to anthology soon!

. . . → Read More: Audio, interviews and more!

Launch Day Has Arrived!

After much editing and formatting and organizing and planning, the launch date has finally arrived and everything (well, almost everything) is set. There are a few extra materials that still need to be reworked a bit, but all of the stories and essays scheduled to be a part of the initial launch are ready and . . . → Read More: Launch Day Has Arrived!

textBOX Launch Announcement

On January 24th, The Missouri Review will launch textBOX: a free, online anthology of exceptional fiction, essays and poetry, all originally published in The Missouri Review since 1978.

a little background on textBOX Over the last 33 years, The Missouri Review has published some of the best fiction, essays and poetry in the country. We . . . → Read More: textBOX Launch Announcement

About the Anthology

textBOX is a collection of some of the best short fiction, essays and poetry selected from the archives of The Missouri Review, one of the nation’s leading literary magazines since 1978. The anthology is designed to provide access to students and teachers of creative writing and contemporary literature to a selection of some of the . . . → Read More: About the Anthology