The Missouri Review

The advanced copy of the summer issue just arrived on our doorstep. Which means your copy will be shipping in the next few days.  We hope that it goes this week, but we hit a bit of a snafu with the boxes.  Typically, our issues are 192 pages, but this action packed ditty has 208 [...]

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Mathew Chacko’s “Ivy: A Love Story” (from TMR 31.2) is a vivid portrait of a grief-haunted man redefining the boundaries of his world after the loss of his wife.  Vibrant imagery, a dynamic Indian setting and a protagonist steeped in a lifetime of memories make Chako’s story a compelling and layered read.

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That’s right: we would like you to follow us on Twitter! As The Missouri Review makes its first foray into the Twitterverse, we wanted to ask all of our readers, bloggers, and contributors to come join us.  Tweets will include updates on behind-the-scenes action at the magazine, favorite literary quotes, retweets, and of course, lots [...]

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Contributors to The Missouri Review have received some great news the last few weeks, and of course, I’d like to pass that on to everyone else (if you haven’t heard already). Seth Fried, whose has published two stories with us (“The Siege” and “Loeka Discovered”), has just had his first story collection accepted at Soft [...]

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We have a winner!  We’ve just (finally!) done our iPad drawing.  I’d like to thank all our readers and writers who wrote in asking to be entered in the drawing.  We received several hundreds of entries, and had to scrounge up a very large hat to throw in all the emails we received.  I stirred [...]

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To many readers of the literary journal scene, Jacob Appel is a familiar name. He’s published in a slew of places such as AGNI, StoryQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Boston Review, to name just a few.  Jacob also won our 2007 Editors’ Prize with his story “Creve Coeur.”  You can purchase the issue with his [...]

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I’m just going to copy and paste this one from TMR friend Andrew Scott, who along with Victoria Barrett runs the awesome journal Freight Stories and the very cool short story reading club tastefully named Andrew’s Book Club.  I’ve already responded to his call to action and I hope you will, too: Kathryn Lang, the [...]

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More good news from a recent contributor to TMR! Scott Coffel‘s poems appeared in TMR 31.2, our summer 2008 issue.  In the introduction to his poems, Scott wrote “poetry should resist easy victories or the siren songs of self-improvement.” So he knows that getting his first book of poems, Toucans in the Arctic, published last [...]

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TMR is delighted to announce that Cheryl Strayed’s essay “Munro Country” has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. Strayed’s fantastic essay, which was our “From The Archives” selection last month, originally appeared in summer 2009 issue (or, call it “The Missouri Review: Messy Art“; or, now, just call it the “Strayed Issue”). We had the chance [...]

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No, really! Galerie de Difformité is the forthcoming novel by Missouri alum (and friend of TMR) Gretchen Henderson.  Cribbed from the Lake Forest College website: “With the head of a novel and the body of a poem, Galerie de Difformité is a book that avoids any simple category.  A mysterious bone with a heart-shaped hole. [...]

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If you are in Columbia, swing by tonight and check out a reading by two fantastic poets: TMR’s own Marc McKee and TMR alum Jason Koo.  Sponsored by Center: A Journal of Literary Arts (another fine journal here at the University of Missouri; their Symposium’s are must reads), the reading will be from 7 to [...]

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Richard Bausch, also, is coming to Columbia. One of TMR’s favorite writers has generously donated his time for The Missouri Review’s annual fundraiser.  The event is May 2nd at Murry’s Restaurant and begins at 600 pm. You can purchase tickets or make a donation here. I hope you can make it, drink some wine, eat [...]

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We’re running a drawing to give away a free iPad – one of those awesome 3G + WiFi suckers. Because we’re friendly like that. Send an email to mutmrcontestquestion@missouri.edu and you’re automatically entered. It’s that simple. No, really! We’ll do the drawing shortly after the new iPad is ready to ship. When you visit The [...]

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We’ve just posted the final episode in our 2009 Audio Winners series. This episode features the first place winner for 2009, “Basement Story” by Austin Bunn. You can listen to this podcast here, or browse all of our podcasts to check out some of our previous winners. Congratulations to all of our 2009 finalists, and [...]

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In this episode of our podcast, we present our second place winner for 2009, “Women of Troy,” a work which was produced as part of the “In Verse” recording project, created by Ted Genoways and Lu Olkowski. In its full, multimedia incarnation, “Women of Troy” features poet Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally, and [...]

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This week, we gladly present Joe Osterhaus’ original poem “Eden.”  Osterhaus is the author of Radiance (Zoo Press) and The Domed Road (Graywolf Press, in Take Three: AGNI New Poets Series). His work has appeared most recently in Slate, The Yale Review, and The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets. He was a Walter E. [...]

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On this Missouri Review podcast, we present “The Thing at the Foot of the Bed” by Rachel Yoder, a finalist in our 2009 Audio Competition. Look for more audio winners throughout the month of March! Listen here: .

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We’ve just posted the first episode in our four-part podcast series featuring the winners of our 2009 Audio Competition. On this episode, we present “Lucy and the Bike Girl” by Hillary Frank, a finalist in the competition. Lucy, a 28-year-old with cystic fibrosis, meets the “Bike Girl,” who has the same disease, in an internet [...]

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This week, TMR is pleased to present “Bird-Teasing After the Hurricane,” new work by John Casteen.  His first book of poems, Free Union, was published in 2009 by The University of Georgia press.  New poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus.  He teaches at Sweet Briar College, and serves on the editorial [...]

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We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2009 Audio Contest. In the coming weeks, the winning entries and select finalists will be featured on our website.  Congratulations to all our winners and thanks to everyone who submitted their work! First Place: Austin Bunn, “Basement Story” Second Place: Brenda Ann Kenneally, Lu Olkowski,  and [...]

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We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2009 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. The winning entries in each category will be featured in our next issue, 33.1. Congratulations to all our winners and thanks to everyone who submitted their work! 2009 Contest Winners: Fiction Winner: Fiona McFarlane “Exotic Animal Medicine” Austin, TX Finalists: [...]

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Our deadline has been extended to January 16th!  Submit your entry in Audio/Voice- Only Lit or Video Documentary. Winners receive a total of $4,500 in prizes. First prize in each category receives $1,500, second prize $500. Five entries from both categories will be selected for a $100 Editor’s Prize. All entrants receive a 1-year subscription [...]

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Our submissions system is now fully operational again! If you paid for a submission from Saturday evening through Tuesday morning and were unable to complete the upload, first try clicking the link in your receipt e-mail again and see if the upload page loads for you. If it does, you can continue to submit normally. [...]

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Over the weekend, the University’s IT staff encountered some problems while migrating our site (and many others) to a new server environment. At the moment (Monday afternoon), we have our webpages back up, but the submission system is still experiencing errors. If you submitted a payment for either an online contest or regular submission but [...]

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After struggling all summer to come up with a catchy slogan for TMR’s new T-shirt, I decided to make it a contest among our staff. Two standouts were Jess Camp and Dan Stahl. Jess Camp submitted fourteen entries, ranging from the cute and clever to the weird. For several she was in rhyming mode: “TMR: [...]

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Check out our Smith Prize. The winners in all three genres–fiction, poetry, essay–receive five thousand dollars each. More importantly, it’s great for careers. Entering online is easy, and all entrants get a year’s subscription to the magazine. Deadline is in a little over a month. Just click the announcement on the home page for details. [...]

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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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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: [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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