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Mississippi Review

118 College Drive #5144

Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001

Phone: (601) 266-4321 Fax: (601) 266-5757

E-mail: travis <at> mississippireview.com

ISSN: 0047-7559 Founded: 1971 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Ubiquity Average pages: 224 Copy Price: $12.50 Subscription (Individuals): $25/one year Subscription (Libraries): $32/one year

Publisher’s Description: Mississippi Review features National Book Award winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Critics Circle winners as well as hundreds of new writers, and has been widely represented in Pushcart, Best American, and other annuals. Ann Beattie characterized MR as “among the best small magazines being published,” and Raymond Carver said it was “one of the most remarkable and indispensable literary journals of our time.” Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Simic called MR “one of the best magazines in the country.”

Recent special issues: Prose Poetry (Robert Bly, James Tate, Dara Weir, etc.), New York School poets, Politics & Religion (Moyers, Chomsky, et al), current fiction (selected by Rick Moody), world poetry, Hamlet. We also do interviews, recently with Peter Taylor, Paul Auster, Mary Gaitskill, Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, Bret Easton Ellis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Robert Stone, Jamaica Kincaid, Eudora Welty, Rick Bass, and others. Each year we do an issue devoted to our annual MR Prize, featuring the winning writing of new and established authors.

MR publishes online at www.mississippireview.com with more than 600 stories, poems, interviews and essays available, including work by Thom Jones, Lucie Brock-Broido, Ben Marcus, Francine Prose, Padgett Powell, Barry Hannah, Tom Drury, Elizabeth Gilbert, Ben Neihart, Courtney Eldridge, David Ryan, Laurie O'Brien, Jaime Clarke, Stacey Richter and hundreds more. Writer’s Digest recently ranked Mississippi Review as the fifth most important and influential on-line publication.

Recent issue:

New Fiction Issue
The new Current Fiction issue of Mississippi Review offers an exciting look at the frontier of contemporary fiction, with fresh new work from established innovative writers Ann Beattie, Rick Moody, and John Barth, alongside work from up-and-coming artists such as Tao Lin, Mary Miller, Kim Chinquee, and Will Boast, plus an interview with genre-bending author, T. C. Boyle.