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2009 Editors’ Prize Winners Announced!

January 6th, 2010 by The Missouri Review · 2 Comments

We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2009 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. The winning entries in each category will be featured in our next issue, 33.1. Congratulations to all our winners and thanks to everyone who submitted their work!

2009 Contest Winners:

Fiction

Winner:

Fiona McFarlane
“Exotic Animal Medicine”
Austin, TX

Finalists:

Diane Simmons
“Yukon River”

Mai-Lee Chai
“Tomorrow in Shanghai”
San Francisco, CA

Siobhan Fallon
“Remission”
Monterey, CA

Poetry

Winner:

Christina Hutchins
Albany, CA

Finalists:

Sarah Blackman
Greenville, SC

Joseph Fasano
Middletown, NY

Brian Brodeur
Fairfax, VA

Essay

Winner:

Joseph Murtagh
“A Hive of Mysterious Danger”
Trumansburg, NY

Finalists:

Jonathan Starke
“What Happens to Heroes”
Fort Collins, CO

Rachel Riederer
“Patient”
Brooklyn, NY

David Bahr
“Bootstrapped”
New York, NY

Tags: Announcements · Contest

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 jadepark // Jan 28, 2010 at 1:14 pm

    Congrats to the winners! Well deserved and big kudos. :)

    But I do wonder why The Missouri Review never notified any of the other writers who entered the contest (and didn’t win). You’re not the only one–other contests (the Mississippi Review didn’t notify anyone who entered, either) do this, and I’m not sure why notification is absent.

  • 2 litmag etiquette–courtesy is a two way street « Writing Under a Pseudonym // Jan 28, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    [...] will be notified, I assume I’ll be notified either by email or by postal letter note. Both The Missouri Review Editors Prize and The Mississippi Review Prize posted the winning writers on their websites, but didn’t [...]

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