The Missouri Review
Discovering the best in fiction, essays, and poetry
Our Latest Issue: Crash
33.2 Summer 2010
Featuring work by M.C. Armstrong, John W. Evans, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Becky Adnot Haynes, Nathan Hogan, Jonathan Johnson, Devin Murphy, Wade Ostrowski, and Sharon Solwitz... and an interview with Natasha Trethewey.
Web Features
Poem of the Week
Portrait of the Self
August 31, 2010
This week we are happy to present Jaswinder Bolina's "Portrait of the Self." Bolina is the author of Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His more recent work has appeared in AGNI online, Black Warrior Review, The Laurel Review, and other journals.
From Our Archives
How to Become a Publicist
Jessica F. Kane's story "How To Become A Publicist" originally appeared in TMR Vol. 23, No. 3. Her first novel, The Report, has just been released on Graywolf Press.
From our Blog
Is It Time Yet?
For years there’s been a wonderful image in my head, taken no doubt from the movies, in which a writer pulls the final page of his novel’s first draft from the typewriter—always a typewriter, never a laser printer—adds it to the stack of typed pages beside him that has been growing taller over the months or years, quietly sizes up his accomplishment, then pops opens the obligatory bottle of champagne with his loved ones.
Posted on 3 September 2010 | 8:55 am
Hey there, what’s that sound?
About a year and a half ago this magazine decided to take its audio and digital presence to a new, transformative level. Then, I was an intern and overeager to get involved. Former managing editor, Richard Sowienski, and former audio editor, Lania Knight, asked for anyone interested in joining the audio team to help set [...]
Posted on 2 September 2010 | 4:16 pm
In Praise of Our Covers
We don’t usually say much about our covers, which needs to change because we’ve been using the work of some exciting contemporary artists. The cover of our current issue, Crash, is a photograph by Kerry Skarbakka. For the sake of the camera, he jumps off bridges, freefalls from skyscrapers, tumbles from stepladders, trips down stairs [...]
Posted on 1 September 2010 | 2:29 pm
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Now taking submissions for the 2010 Editors' Prize
The submission period for our annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize is now open. Winners in each genre receive $5,000, plus a featured publication in our spring issue—making this one of the top literary prizes in the country. Three finalists in each genre will also receive awards and be considered for publication. Get more details here.
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