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This semester promises to be interesting. My only non-literature class is Spanish, which I have five days a week. The rest of the time I’ve kept busy with reading from…    read more

Until last Monday, I had a strict policy of running only when chased. Running for exercise was a concept that barely registered on my “things I would even remotely consider”…    read more

I had a writing teacher not long ago who, on the first day of our class, set out a small, tarnished incense holder with a vented lid on the table…    read more

I couldn’t quite think of anything today dealing with up and coming author or novel, being as I’m in the middle of reading one and haven’t finished it yet. Today…    read more

Glancing about my room tonight, I am reminded of the night my father brought home a typewriter. I was eight and he presented the typewriter to me with little introduction,…    read more

I was thinking about the ways in which September 11 will be worked into creative writing, particularly fiction, in the coming years. I’ve read a few short stories dealing directly…    read more

Virago is a UK-based publisher that has a series called Virago Modern Classics, started in 1978 and dedicated to the celebration of women writers, to the rediscovery and reprinting of…    read more

The British Whitbread Awards were announced yesterday. This year’s winner, of both the Novel section and the Book of the Year award, is Mark Haddon’s, The Curious Incident of the…    read more

After spending most of my short writing career on stories, I’ve recently begun a novel. Unlike the time I spend on stories, with long gaps of time between writing days,…    read more

The editors of The Missouri Review are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Editors’ Prize Contest for fiction and essay, along with the winner of the seventh annual…    read more