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The Missouri Review
357 McReynolds Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: (573) 882-4474
E-mail: question[at]moreview[dot]com
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 12 weeks Payment: $40/page + two copies Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 0191-1961 Founded: 1978 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Ingram Periodicals Copy price: $8.95 Average pages: 192 Sample price (postpaid): $8.95 Subscription (individuals/institutions) 1 year: $24
Publisher’s description: Since 1978, The Missouri Review has helped shape the contemporary literary scene by offering the finest work of today’s most important writers and by discovering the brightest new voices in fiction, poetry, and the essay. Audio recordings of every issue, read by either the writer or a professional theater performer, are available through our website.
Recent work in the The Missouri Review has been anthologized over 100 times in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Poetry, Prize Stories: The O’Henry Awards, New Stories From The South, and The Pushcart Prize. Writers whose work first appeared in The Missouri Review have won awards such as the National Book Award, the Yale Younger Poets Award, MacArthur Foundation “Genius” awards, and the Pulitzer Prize.
Recent contributors include Richard Bausch, Kerry Hardie, Tom Ireland, Ellen Bass, Benjamin Percy, Steve Almond, Elise Juska, Eleanor Lerman, and Cheryl Strayed.
Recent issues:
The “Weird” issue (34.4) features work by Mia Alvar, Beth Cranwell Aplin, Monica Ferrell, Christa Fraser, Thomas Heise, Richie Hofmann, Luke Mogelson, Kent Nelson, and Thomas Swick… as well as a look at the life and work of Sarah Bernhardt and a conversation with China Miéville.
Our summer 2011 issue, “Significant Other,” has other worldly significance! The latest and greatest from the Midwest features Elisabeth Fairchild’s first published story, and new fiction by Amin Ahmad, Tom Barbash, Arna Bontemps Hemenway, and A.R. Rea. Also there are new essays by Daniel Anderson, John W. Evans, and Anthony Aycock, poetry by Diane Seuss, Steve Gehrke, and Peter Jay Shippy, and an interview with Brian Turner on the poetry of war. Visit our newly redesigned website to order your copy today!
The spring 2011 issue of The Missouri Review is here! This issue, “Peril,” features the winners of the 20th annual Editors’ Prize: Anna Solomon (fiction), George Looney (poetry), and John Hales (essay). We also have an essay by Patricia Bjorklund taking a peek at the John Birch society in the Cold War era, an interview with Jo Ann Beard, an omnibus review of vampire novels, and fresh work by Sarah Cornwell, Nadine Sabra Meyer, Josh Booton, Jennifer duBois, Erin Flanagan, Molly Schultz, and Amy Yelin. Visit us online and say “Yo!”