The Missouri Review

In the literary world, the past few weeks have been filled with stories about Virginia Quarterly Review and the suicide of its managing editor, Kevin Morrissey.  Not only has there been a flurry of inaccuracies, but also a damning indictment of the University of Virginia, VQR, and its editor, Ted Genoways.  Our marketing director, Kris [...]

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Recently, we were having a quiet day in The Missouri Review offices.  It was one of those Missouri days in August when your vision gets hazy from the heat rising off the concrete and once inside, you still don’t stop sweating for at least an hour.  With a stack of manuscripts in front of us, [...]

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This week, we’re catching up with author Dennis McFadden’s, whose debut fiction-collection, Hart’s Grove, is just out from Colgate University Press.  Snag your copy here.  Dennis’s story, “The Three-Sided Penny” appeared in The Missouri Review’s Winter 2007 issue, which you can purchase here.  He lives and writes in an old farmhouse called Mountjoy on Bliss [...]

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This weekend on The Huffington Post, writer and critic Anis Shivani posted a piece called “The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary Writers.”  Some of the authors declared overrated are Amy Tan, Michael Cunningham, William T. Vollman, and Antonya Nelson.  Why have these authors been inappropriately “rated”?  According to Shivani, it’s because of the lack of good [...]

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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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We’ve enjoyed the long weekend: any excuse for a three-day weekend that includes barbecue, fireworks, baseball, and parades is okay with us. So, when I returned to the TMR office today, there was a large pile of unread emails in my Inbox, including a lengthy thread from literary journal editors about this annoucement via GalleyCat. [...]

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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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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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Rejection is a significant part of a writer’s life.  Everyone gets rejected.  This is simply the way it is for writers, whether you are an emerging writer or A Very Famous Writer.  You can read a list here of 30 famous authors who were turned down by various publishers (tip o’the cap to Nathan Bransford [...]

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There is sad news coming out of Southern Methodist University this week.  SMU Press, the oldest university publishing house in Texas, will have its operations shut down on June 1, 2010.  The editors of the press – Keith Gregory, Kathryn Lang, and George Ann Ratchford – had no hint or prior warning that this was [...]

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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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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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The Missouri Review has a long history of sending our former interns into the world of publishing. Jason Koo, our former poetry editor, becomes our latest flag bearer into the literary magazine world. He and friends Bill Hughes, Robert Liddell, and Jeff Bernard have just launched Low Rent magazine. Check it out at www.lowrentmagazine.com.

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