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Current Issue: 35.1 (Spring 2012)
Poem of the Week- David Kirby: “If Any Man Have an Ear, Let Him Listen”
- Larry Levis: “Labyrinth as the Erasure of Cries Heard Once Within It or: (Mr. Bones I Succeeded. . .’ Later)”
- Amy Newman: “The Day After The Dean of Michigan State College Admits Him To Lansing Sparrow Hospital For Rest, A Naked Theodore Roethke Barricades Himself Behind A Hospital Mattress”
Tag Archives: audio competition
2008 Audio & Video Competition Now Accepting Submissions!
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, Documentary, and Voice-Only Literature (Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction) from last year.
Full guidelines and the entry form are available here.
And check out last year’s winners in our archived podcasts.
TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series Wrap-Up
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” [Listen]
Documentary
First place, $1,000: Lu Olkowski, “Grandpa” [Listen]
First runner-up and Editors’ Choice Award, $100: Richard Paul, “Shakespeare in Black and White” [Listen]
Second runner-up: Ken Cormier, “The Secret Pianos of Manhattan” [Listen]
Third runner-up: Dan Collison, “Lord God Bird” [Listen]
10-minute play
First place, $500: Kris Saknusemm: “Memory Wound” [Listen]
First runner-up: George Zarr: “Old Dog/Newer Tricks” [Listen]
Second runner-up: Sue Zizza, National Audio Theatre Festivals, “Avian Invasion” [Listen]
Voice-only Literature
Creative Nonfiction
- First place in Voice-only Literature category and Creative Nonfiction subcategory, $500: Albert Haley, “The Cough” [Listen]
First runner-up and Editors’ Choice Award, $100: Lisa K. Buchanan, “All That I Missed” [Listen]
- Second runner-up: Randolph Jordan, “A Death in the Family” [Listen]
- Third runner-up: Angela Cervantes, “A House of Women” [Listen]
Flash fiction
First place in subcategory and Editors’ Choice Award, $100: Josh McDonald, “Lost” [Listen]
First runner-up and Editors’ Choice Award, $100: Jithendria Kumar Aravamudhan, “Memoirs of a Mad Man” [Listen]
Poetry
First place in subcategory and Editors’ Choice Award, $100: Todd Boss, “To Wind a Mechanical Toy” [Listen]
First runner up: Todd Boss, “Yellow Rocket” [Listen]
Second runner-up: Runner up: Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, “The Golden Lesson” [Listen]
Third runner-up: Eric Torgersen, “Taking Tickets” [Listen]
Fourth runner-up: Josh McDonald, “Women in Strange Trousers” [Listen]
TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Documentary: Dan Collison "Lord God Bird"
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.
TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Ken Cormier "The Secret Pianos of Manhattan"
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 online. His first book, Balance Act, a collection of poems and short stories, was published by Insomniac Press in 2000.
You can listen to this podcast directly here.
TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Documentary: Richard Paul "Shakespeare in Black and White"
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 Audio Winners Series podcasts.
You can listen to this podcast directly here.
TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Documentary: Lu Olkowski "Grandpa"
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 an up-close portrait of death.
Olkowski is a regular contributor to Studio 360. Her work has also appeared on All Things Considered, Day to Day, This American Life and Weekend America. “Grandpa” appeared on WNYC’s program Radio Lab.
You can listen to this podcast directly here.