The Missouri Review

Congratulations to the winners of the 2006 Editor’s Prize Contest. It was a tough competition this year, and we’d like to thank everyone who submitted their work to our judges. Here are the finalists:

Fiction

Winner:

Jacob M. Appel, “Creve Coeur”
New York, NY

Finalists:

Jennine Capó Crucet, “And in the Morning, Work”
Champaign, IL

 

Erica Debeljak, “Biology”
Evanston, IL 

 

Elliott Holt, “Fem Care”
Brooklyn, NY

Poetry

Winner:

Jonathan Fink
Pensacola, FL

Finalists:

Adam Day
Brooklyn, NY

 

Ann Fisher-Wirth
Oxford, MS

 

Jane Springer
Tallahassee, FL

Nonfiction

Winner:

Cynthia Coffel, “Letters to David”
Iowa City, IA

Finalists:

Tom Carlson, “Mr. Tilley and his Twin (Neon Brothers) Wink and Grin”
Memphis, TN

 

John Fanestil, “The Freying of the Memoir”

 

John Price, “Dave and the Devil”
Council Bluffs, IA