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TMR Author on the Air

May 29th, 2009 Richard Sowienski · No Comments

This week Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Ramona Koval interviewed Jason Anthony about his experience in Antarctica. Anthony’s essay, “Song of Hypothermia,” appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of The Missouri Review and was the springboard for much of the conversation. We’ve posted the full essay for your reading enjoyment, and you can hear the interview here.

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Audio and Video Competition Winners Announced

May 8th, 2009 Richard Sowienski · No Comments

We’re pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Audio & Video Competition. We received 211 entries, and the quality was deep in nearly every category. Over the next few weeks we will audition the winners and select runners-up for your listening enjoyment.
Narrative Essay
First place, $1,000: “Dayenu,” by Judith Sloan
First runner-up: “What’s Your Status,” [...]

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It’s gonna cost you more

May 7th, 2009 Dedra · No Comments

Seems like everything costs more these days–a gallon of gas at the BP, tickets to a baseball game at the new Yankee Stadium, mailing your manuscript to The Missouri Review.
That’s right.
New postal rates go into effect Monday, May 11. This means envelopes large and small. When enclosing a SASE for an editor’s response, the [...]

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Keep the search alive

May 5th, 2009 Webteam · No Comments

Dear Friends of TMR:
The search continues for missing poet Craig Arnold. The following message comes once again from Jess Piazza, one of the primary forces in marshaling resources that first raised the alarum and is continuing to work with Craig’s friends and family to keep up search efforts:
With the assistance of the University of [...]

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Poet Craig Arnold is Missing. Will you help?

April 30th, 2009 Marc McKee · No Comments

Dear friends and visitors to the TMR online home:
Last night I received an urgent message from my friend, the poet Jessica Piazza, a friend of the poet Craig Arnold. As those who travel through the literary blogosphere already know, Craig went missing on April 26th (or even Monday, April 27th, Japan time) while visiting [...]

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Twitter and looking for a good bit of prose

April 18th, 2009 Speer Morgan · No Comments

I’m going to try Twitter. My user name is speerladdie (pardon the cuteness; everything simple was already used). So join with me. I’m particularly interested in authors, writers at all career phases (we specialize in “firsts”, so I’m very interested in writers at the struggle phase), good new books, and other [...]

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Blue Boy selected to premiere at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

April 8th, 2009 The Missouri Review · No Comments

Sixteen years ago we published a remarkable coming-of-age short story by Kevin Canty, which was later included in his fiction collection A Stranger in This World. This year, that story, “Blue Boy,” will come to life on the big screen at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival. This short film is one of only [...]

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The Missouri Review Video Winner Kicks Off True/False Film Fest

February 26th, 2009 Richard Sowienski · No Comments

 
Last night, the True/False Film Fest (www.truefalse.org) launched its sixth annual festival with the screening of Afghan Star,directed by Havana Marking. First, though, festival co-founder David Wilson announced the winner of the Creative Short category of our annual Audio and Video Competition.
Anne Lewis takes home the top honors with “Separate Vacations,” an animated short about a narrator who [...]

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Missouri Review Audio Issues

December 18th, 2008 Lania Knight · No Comments

After many months of recording and editing, we are proud to announce that Audio Issue 30.4 is online and available to download for free. Check out poets Preston Mark Stone and Stephen O’Connor reading their own poems aloud.
Future issues will be available for purchase–more about that soon. Enjoy!

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TMR AUDIO CONTEST WINNER TODD BOSS FEATURED ON POETRY DAILY

November 13th, 2008 Marc McKee · No Comments

Visitors to the popular website Poetry Daily can get a taste of the work of poet Todd Boss, who readers and listeners of TMR already know as the poetry winner (and first runner-up) of our inaugural Audio Contest, for his poems “To Wind a Mechanical Toy,” and “Yellowrocket,” respectively. His poem, “To Be Alone [...]

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TMR on Facebook

November 11th, 2008 Brittany Barr · No Comments

The Missouri Review is no stranger to the digital world. We were the first literary magazine to launch a website–in the early 1980’s at that, before the internet was truly the world wide web. Beginning in 2007, we started recording all our content, and will soon offer an audio version of the magazine for readers [...]

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Whiting Winners

October 30th, 2008 Dedra · No Comments

We are delighted to report that Rick Hilles and Benjamin Percy have just been named recipients of 2008 Whiting Awards. Each writer received a $50,000 prize from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. Presented annually since 1985, the Whiting Awards, according to the foundation’s website, are presented to authors who exhibit “exceptional talent and promise [...]

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Hayden Carruth (1921-2008)

October 28th, 2008 gregory · No Comments

The American poet Hayden Carruth passed away several weeks ago at the age of 87. He seemed to pass away as quietly as his poetry took root and grew around us: 30 books. I don’t recall hearing any announcements of his death on the news. The news of his death reached me by way of [...]

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Audio Competition Deadline Change

August 21st, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

Even though it’s only our second year sponsoring this competition, we already have more entries in hand than the same time last year. Also, our 18th Annual Editors’ Prize Competition is booming. Because both competitions have nearly the same deadline, we’ve decided to move the Audio/Video deadline back to Dec. 1, 2008. This will give [...]

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Call for Manuscripts (Again!)

May 5th, 2008 Evelyn Somers · No Comments

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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2008 Audio & Video Competition Now Accepting Submissions!

April 26th, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

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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New Site Design

April 13th, 2008 Patrick Lane · 1 Comment

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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Website, Store, and Submission System Downtime

April 2nd, 2008 Patrick Lane · No Comments

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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TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series Wrap-Up

March 24th, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

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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TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Documentary: Dan Collison “Lord God Bird”

March 20th, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

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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TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Ken Cormier “The Secret Pianos of Manhattan”

March 19th, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

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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TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Documentary: Richard Paul “Shakespeare in Black and White”

March 18th, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

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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TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Documentary: Lu Olkowski “Grandpa”

March 17th, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

 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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TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: 10-Minute Play: National Audio Theatre Festival “Avian Invasion”

March 15th, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

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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TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: 10-Minute Play: George Zarr “Old Dog, Newer Tricks”

March 14th, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

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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TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: 10-Minute Play: Kris Saknussemm “Memory Wound”

March 13th, 2008 The Missouri Review · 1 Comment

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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TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Voice-Only Creative Nonfiction: 2nd & 3rd Runners-Up

March 12th, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

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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TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Voice-Only Creative Non-Fiction: 1st Place and 1st Runner-up.

March 11th, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

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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Video Feature: “Why We Publish The Missouri Review”

March 7th, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

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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TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Voice-Only Poetry Runners-Up

March 4th, 2008 The Missouri Review · No Comments

 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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