21st Annual
Jeffrey E. Smith
Editors’ Prize in
Fiction, Essay and Poetry
Not Just Any Contest!
Select winning entries in the past have been reprinted in the Best American series. For a limited time, we’re offering free access last year’s contest issue in digital format: click here to see last year’s winners!
$5,000 Fiction | $5,000 Poetry | $5,000 Essay
[The submission period for the 2011 contest is now over.]
Or download the entry form (PDF) for print submissions.
Complete Guidelines
(No other information is needed to enter)
- Page restrictions: Please include no more than 25 typed, double-spaced pages for fiction and nonfiction. Poetry entries can include any number of poems up to 10 pages in total. Each story, essay, or group of poems constitutes one entry.
- Entry fee: $20 for each entry (make checks payable to The Missouri Review). Each fee entitles the entrant to a one-year subscription to TMR in print or digital format (for a free sample of a digital issue, go here!), an extension of a current subscription, or a gift subscription. Please enclose a complete address for subscriptions.
- Entry instructions: Include the printable contest entry form. On the first page of each submission, include author’s name, address, e-mail and telephone number. Entries must be previously unpublished and will not be returned. We accept simultaneous submissions but ask for immediate notification if the piece is accepted for publication elsewhere. Mark the outside of the envelope “Fiction,” “Essay,” or “Poetry.” Each entry in a separate category must be mailed in a separate envelope. Enclose a #10 SASE or e-mail address for an announcement of winners.
- Mailing address:
Missouri Review Editors’ Prize
357 McReynolds Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211 - Go Green: Enter Online! We are also accepting electronic submissions.
Download the entry form for print submissions.
If you have any questions regarding the Editors’ Prize Contest, please feel free to e-mail us at: contest_question@moreview.com.
Update: Our contest for 2011 is now closed. The winners will be announced in January 2012.