The Missouri Review

Lisa K. Buchanan, who was our first runner-up in the voice-only creative non-fiction category of our 2007 Audio Competition, can currently be heard on the KQED’s “The Writers’ Block” reading her winning entry to Opium Magazine’s 2007 “Bookmark Contest” in which authors had to submit a 250-word story that could be printed on a bookmark. [...]

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If you’re reading this, then you’re seeing our new site design. This has been a project over a year and a half in development. This new design is database driven and allows us to present more of our content more easily than ever before. So click the “Browse Issues” or “Search Content” links in the [...]

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This month, The Missour Review is launching a redesigned website and changing to a new service provider. As part of this process, beginning this weekend and continuing through early next week, our e-commerce and submission systems will be disabled until the full migration to our new host is completed. We’ll let you know in this blog [...]

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It seems as though it is time once again for more hand-wringing about the cruel deceptions wrought by authors upon their publishers (and/or by publishers upon a naive and trusting public): another memoir turns out not to be true!
As reported by the New York Times, Love and Consequences, Margaret B. Jones’ memoir ”about her life as a [...]

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Due to maintenance required by the service which processes all of our e-commerce transactions, the online submission system and shopping cart will be unavailable on Sunday, Feb. 3, from 1-4 a.m. Central Time.
 Thanks for your patience!

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We are in the process of upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress this afternoon (Monday, Oct. 8). During this process, some blog features may not be accessible. Please check back soon!

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As you peruse our blog these days, you might notice some new icons lurking at the bottom of the posts. We’ve added automated links for three popular social bookmarking sites: Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. If you’ve haven’t paid much attention to the world of social bookmarking, it’s an interesting phenomenon and worth getting involved with. [...]

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An interesting item appears on The World’s Fair blog this month: someone has crunched the numbers and worked out that since 1992, The New Yorker has published only seventeen women in their “Shouts and Murmurs” section. That’s out of a total 133 authors. And they haven’t published any women in “Shouts and Murmurs” in over [...]

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Time is counting down on our first ever literary audio competition. This contest is not just for experienced audio production artists; our Voice-Only Literature category is a great opportunity for writers who haven’t yet ventured into multimedia art. Making your own recording of your writing is easier than you think, and now we’ve put together [...]

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Salon has a fascinating and somewhat alarming article today about a recent corporate bankruptcy fiasco that has endangered many independent book publishers. From the article:
McSweeney’s is far from the only publisher that’s taken a hit: As a result of the bankruptcy, either directly or indirectly, small publishers Soft Skull, Hugh Lauter Levin and Inner Ocean [...]

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Tom Lutz has an interesting piece in Salon today examining the history of “How To Read Books” books, prompted, apparently, by Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them.
Lutz’s piece begins by questioning why so many of these guides (Harold Bloom’s How [...]

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We are pleased to welcome you to the new design for our website! We hope that the changes we’ve made will make your exploration here easier and will provide you with a new way of experiencing our content.
We are still adapting some of our older archives and material; old content will be made available as soon [...]

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Only twelve days left to get your contest entries into the mail. Why should you submit to The Missouri Review’s Jeffery E. Smith Editors’ Prize? Because of all the things you can use $3000 for. To get you started, here are just some things that your $3000 award might by, as compiled by contest editor [...]

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Time to submit to this years Missouri Review Editor’s Prize is running out! As you make those final edits to your contest manuscripts, here are some thoughts from Anthony Varallo, sharing your pain.
Last-Minute Changes, 1994-2004: A Celebration

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It’s that time of the year, when a young writer’s thoughts turn to $3,000 cash prizes. You only have four more weeks to polish off those manuscripts and get them in the mail for the 16th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prizes at The Missouri Review. We’re giving away $3,000 each to the first place [...]

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You can now listen to our interview with poet Derek Mong, who chats with Poetry Editor Jason Koo about classical influences and the stories behind some of his poetry. Derek Mong is the winner of The Missouri Review’s 2006 Editor’s Prize for Poetry.
You can get the MP3 file of this interview directly from us here.
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Mark Wisniewski’s short story “Stricken” recently took first place in the contest for the 2006 Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction. Mark’s story “Birdie” appeared in THE MISSOURI REVIEW, Volume XVI, Number 1.
Henry Shukman (”Mortimer of the Mahgreb”) has just had a story collection of that same title published by Pan Macmillan.
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