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Marin Sardy‘s essay “A Shapeless Thief,” about her mother’s schizophrenia, first appeared in the Missouri Review (37:2) and later became part of her new memoir, The Edge of Every Day:…    read more

In this week’s episode of the Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast, we talk to Joanna Luloff about her new book, writing process, and career. Luloff, 2006 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prizewinner for “Let Them…    read more

Kelli Jo Ford’s  story “Book of the Generations,” part of her collection of linked stories-in progress, Crooked Hallelujah, was selected by judge Elise Juska as the best story in our…    read more

Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize winners each receive $5000, publication in the Missouri Review, and a paid trip to the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize reading and reception held in…    read more

Andrew De Silva’s   2017 Jeffrey E. Smith Prize finalist in fiction, “Coach Schwartz,” excerpted from his novel-in-progress, is the story of Ryan (“Blood”) Schwartz, a twenty-five-year-old professional tennis player…    read more

Here’s a sampler of what some of our past TMR contributors have been up to in recent months: Camille T. Dungy’s Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and…    read more

John Fulton’s story “Box of Watches” depicts a grandson and his dying grandfather who are suddenly faced with the possibility that they will be victims of gun violence. You can…    read more

Themes of isolation and identity infuse Becky Mandelbaum’s “The First to Leave is the Winner,” a story about a young woman house-sitting for an ex-boyfriend in the middle of mountainous…    read more

Susan Neville’s short story “Hunger” is about a woman beginning to handle her grief and slowly working through it. The story unites elements of the fantastic with a real, and…    read more

I spent my twenties, in the 1990s, learning how to write. I didn’t always realize that’s what I was doing. I’d ride the bus or go to the movies or…    read more