The Missouri Review

While we have stacks of submissions waiting to be read, we’re once again short in the interview department. If you have an unpublished interview with an established author, please query me at mutmrquestion@missouri.edu. Past interview subjects include Richard Powers, Antonya Nelson, A.M. Homes, Julian Barnes, Charles Baxter and Stuart Dybek.
We’re also looking for good, sharp […]

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We’re pleased to announce that the second ever Missouri Review Audio & Video Competition is now open and accepting your submissions. You might notice something a little different from last year: the new video category. We’re very excited to see what you can do with this new option. We are also continuing the Narrative Essay, […]

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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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We’ve now concluded our podcast presentations of the winners of our 2007 Audio Competition. You can all of the winners are listed below with links to the podcast containing their work. Congratulations again to all of our winners!
  
Narrative Essay
First place, $1,000: Judith Sloan, “Sweeping Statements” [Listen]
First runner-up: Kris Saknussemm, “Cahoots” [Listen]
Second runner-up: Richard Paul, “Fighting With My Dad” […]

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On this Missouri Review podcast, we have for you the audio feature “Lord God Bird” produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister, which was the 3rd runner-up in the Documentary category of our 2007 audio competition.
You can listen to this podcast directly here.

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On this Missouri Review podcast, we’re happy to share “The Secret Pianos of Manhattan,” by Ken Cormier, which was the 2nd runner-up in the Documentary category our of 2007 audio competition.
Ken Cormier is editor and producer of The Lumberyard, a radio magazine of poetry, prose, and music broadcast on WHUS in Connecticut, and also available […]

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On this Missouri Review podcast, we’re pleased to present “Shakespeare in Black and White,” by Richard Paul, which was the first runner-up in the Documentary category of our 2007 Audio Competition.Richard Paul was also a winner in the Narrative Essay category, and you can listen to that program along with other winners in our previous […]

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 On this Missouri Review podcast, we present the first place winner in the Documentary category of our 2007 Audio Competition.
Lu Olkowski, in her documentary “Grandpa,” looks at the Zagar family and how they deal with death. A father and son have a contest to take the best photos of their dying father/grandpa. The result is […]

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On this Missouri Review podcast, we present our final 10-minute play, “Avian Invasion.” This entry is the work of six first-time participants at the National Audio Theatre Festival’s Audio Theater Workshop, and was the second runner-up in the 10-minute play category of our 2007 Audio Competition.

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On this Missouri Review podcast, we have another ten-minute play for your listening pleasure. Today’s entry is “Old Dog, Newer Tricks,” by George Zarr, which was the first runner-up in the ten-minute play category of our 2007 audio competition.
You can listen to this podcast directly here.

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On this Missouri Review podcast, we begin our presentation of a particularly exciting category from 2007 Audio Competition, the 10-minute plays. Today we have the first place winner, Kris Saknussemm, with his play “The Memory Wound.” Kris also had a winning entry in the Narrative Essay category, which you can listen to on one of […]

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This episode of our podcast features the remaining runner-up entries in the Voice-Only Literature: Creative Nonfiction category. The second runner-up was Randolph Jordan, with his entry “A Death in the Family,” and the third runner up was Angela Cervantes, with “A House of Women.”
You can listen to this podcast directly here.

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This episode of our podcast features the first place and first-runner up entries in the Voice-Only Literature: Creative Nonfiction category. First place went to Albert Haley’s “The Cough.” Haley is associate professor of English at Abilene Christian College. He authored Exotic, the winner of the John Irving First Novel Prize. Places where Haley’s short fiction […]

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We’ve added another video to our growing collection at You Tube. Here, Speer Morgan discusses the motivations behind and the rewards of publishing The Missouri Review.

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 In this Missouri Review podcast, we are pleased to present the wonderfully varied range of the second, third, and fourth runners-up from the Voice-Only poetry category of our 2007 Audio Competition. These are “The Golden Lesson” by Susan Somers-Willet, “Taking Tickets” by Eric Torgersen, and “Women in Strange Trousers” by Josh McDonald.
With “The Golden Lesson,” […]

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In this installment of The Missouri Review podcast, we feature the first place and first runner-up entries to the Voice-Only Literature (Poetry) category of our 2007 Audio Competition. Both of these awards go to poems by Todd Boss: “To Wind a Mechanical Toy” (1st place) and “Yellowrocket” (1st runner-up). Both poems are sonically resonant, without […]

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Today’s podcast presents both of the winning entries in the Voice-Only Fiction category.
First place: Josh McDonald earns first place in the flash fiction, voice-only category with his submission, “Lost.” It’s a comic, surreal story of a madman on a bus shelter roof and the elderly woman who finds him. McDonald is a writer, musician and […]

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Individual copies of our Spring 2008 issue (31.1), featuring the winners of the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, are now available for pre-order through our online shopping cart. Guarantee your copy by ordering today — or better still, subscribe to The Missouri Review!

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Today, we finish off the Narrative Essay category with “Fighting with My Dad,” by Richard Paul, which was our second-runner up. In this essay, we learn that solitude can give an artist peace and freedom, but it can also be addictive. And just like any drug, too much can damage the artist and people around him.
You […]

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Kris Saknussemm takes the first runner-up position in the Narrative Essay category with his piece entitled “Cahoots.” Saknussem has won first prizes in the Boston Review and  River Styx short fiction contests, and he has published in a wide range of magazines, including Chelsea, The Antioch Review, New Letters, Prairie Schooner and ZYZZYA. His first […]

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Our first installment of the Audio Competition winners features the first place recipient of the Narrative Essay category, Judith Sloan. The essay, “Sweeping Statements,” is a first-person author-read accounting of teaching theatre, writing, and juggling in jails and alternative sentencing institutions with incarcerated teenagers. Category judge Jay Allison, of transom.org, says the essay “truly left […]

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We’re thrilled to announce that Katie Chase’s short story, “Man and Wife,” has been selected by guest editor Salman Rushdie for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2008! “Man and Wife” — Katie’s first publication! – appeared in our Summer 2007 issue and has quickly become a staff favorite.  In fact, we gave it to our […]

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As we continue our expansion into different forms of online media, The Missouri Review is pleased to introduce you to own first video posting on You Tube! In this short feature, TMR Editor Speer Morgan talks about the early days of the magazine.

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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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On Tuesday, January 8, Governor Matt Blunt named Walter Bargen, one of our favorite local poets, as official poet laureate of Missouri.
Walter’s work has appeared in the pages of The Missouri Review no less than four times–in 1983, 1989, 1991 and 1997.

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On behalf of this year’s Editors’ Prize contest coordinators Jessica Garratt, Stephanie Carpenter and Darren Pine, we would like to thank everyone who entered this year. The quality of entries in all genres was exceptional, making reading fun but deciding on winners and finalists daunting. Around the office, we had many discussions about […]

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TMR needs good, fresh author interviews for Volume 31 (2008).  Recent past issues include engaging conversations with such writers and poets as Sven Birkerts, Jeffrey Eugenides, Terrance Hayes, A.M. Homes, Jonathan Lethem.  Interviewers interested in publishing their work in TMR or in querying about interview subjects should contact us at question@missourireview.com.

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We’re delighted to announce that Seth Fried is the winner of this year’s William Peden Prize in Fiction. Seth’s winning story, “The Siege,” appeared in the Winter 2006 (Vol 29 #4) issue of The Missouri Review and was selected by outside judge, Nancy Zafris, fiction editor of The Kenyon Review.
The editors award the William […]

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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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