The Missouri Review

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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On the sleety evening of Saturday, April 12, we had the pleasure of hosting the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize Reading and Reception. Despite rampant flight cancelations leading into the weekend, Robert, Jude and Otis were all able to join us. We had an incredible pool of submissions for last year’s contest, but our winners’ readings demonstrated the qualities of freshness and heart that won for them these prizes.

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We’re pleased to announce the winners of the first annual Audio Competition. We received 169 entries, and the quality was deep in nearly every category. In the coming days and weeks, we’ll be posting the winning entries on our homepage and packaging the top entries into Podcasts. Our thanks go to Jay Allison of transom.org […]

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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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The 2000 fiction winner of the Editors’ Prize was “Coney Island in Winter” by Dana Kinstler Standefer.  It’s the story of a woman, who, concerned for her weight, drinks only iced coffee or Tab for lunch.  She works for the androgynous Bob Scheinman, a designer of party dresses, and the story revolves around their relationship, […]

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Due to reported online delays experienced by some submitters to the Editors’ Prize contest, TMR is extending its online submission deadline to Friday, October 5, 2007. We will continue to accept fiction, poetry, and essay entries to the contest through the online submission system until midnight on Friday.

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The story opens with the imagery of death–a small boy dying in bed, the sound of rain from an opened window.  A mother and father experience a great loss, presented to us in effective detail.  It is not until the second page that we discover the father is Abraham Lincoln.  And it is not until […]

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I discovered Martin Scott’s “Chrome Horse” (our current online “Poem of the Week”) while leafing through old Editors’ Prize issues, and found myself  reading that poem again and again.  Part of the reason I kept re-reading it (I’ll admit) is that I don’t entirely understand the mysterious ultimate tercet.  That said, I wanted to understand […]

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Michael Byers’s winning story from our 1993 contest is another first publication. “Settled on the Cranberry Coast” tells the mid-life story of solitary characters in the Pacific Northwest. The story’s bachelor narrator, Frosty, recalls his high-school acquaintance, Trudi, as a hardscrabble girl who ran with the kids from the reservation; now, he is a retired […]

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Throughout this week, we’ll be introducing you to past Editors’ Prize winners. “You Think I Care” by Deborah Way was the first-place story in our 1995 contest. Like many of our winning stories, it was a first publication.
“You Think I Care” is the story of Annie, a shrewd 15-year-old girl who has made the considered […]

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So the deadline for our first annual Audio Competition is drawing near, and, to be perfectly honest, we still need more submissions.  As with all beginnings, this one is tenuous, touch-and-go, and we need your support to make it a success.  All of us here at TMR think this competition has tremendous potential, and, for […]

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