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Since 1978, we've published stories, essays, and poems. We also like chocolate cake. You can follow us on instagram @themissourireview
Columbia, Missouri
Joined June 2010
Watch Philip Levine's final speech at @librarycongress titled "My Lost Poets" h/t @RonCharles.
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Our 27th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize is open for submissions! $5000 prize in each genre.
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Hello there, writers, readers, & friends. Check out TMR contest editor Bailey Boyd as she introduces the 31st Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize, answers some FAQs and talks glowingly about why the prize is special to her:
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This week's Poem of the Week is "Indeed Hotter For Me Are the Joys of the Lord" by @TianaClarkPoet!.
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Hark, you poets, storytellers, and essayists: TMR invites you to submit your most moving, witty, risk-taking, and transcendent work for this year's Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize. You know what it is (or you should click to learn more). LET'S GET IT .
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Driving to Buy Peaches I Pretend My Mother is Already Dead” by Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick/@ShannonEliza!. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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I'm a:. ⚪️ man.⚪️ woman.🔘 lit mag. Seeking:. ⚪️ men.⚪️ women.🔘 writers' submissions to our Editors' Prize contest.
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This week, we have the sad privilege of posthumously publishing a poem from Kelly Caldwell. Read the poem and our editor's statement here:
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We are honored and thrilled to announce the winners, runners-up, and finalists for the 2018 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize. We read mountains of powerful, moving work, and we are over the moon with our winners, @AmandaBold, @dlseuss, & Jo Anne Bennett:
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Portrait with Self-Portrait” by Hieu Minh Nguyen / @HieuMinh!.
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Just another day and a half before the Oct 1 deadline!
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Hello there, creative writer twitter (that's a thing, right?): TMR is pleased to announce the 29th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize! $5000 + publication for winners in each genre, all entries considered for publication. Learn more: #MondayMotivation
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This week's Poem of the Week is "Tea" by @laypay!. "So I make tea. I stand at the window while I wait. My feet are cold and the radio plays its little sounds. I do the small thing I know how to do.to care for myself." .
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Bitch Interrupts a Wedding” by Jenny Molberg / @jennymolberg!.
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This week’s Poem of the Week is @emiliapoet / Emilia Phillips’s “I Have Anxiety About Anxiety.” Show love!.
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Gown” by Thomas Renjilian. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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What's good, internet? What's good, #AWP2020? We are thrilled as any thrillable thing thrilled to its most thrilled to announce that we'll be partnering with @adroitjournal, @AmPoetryReview, @coppernickel, and @pleiadesmag to bring forth an EPIC READING:
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Congratulations to our poetry editor Chun Ye, who will have a poem in Pushcart Prize XLI!
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A million million exuberant HUZZAHS to the brilliant force that is poet @dlseuss for her well-deserved Pulitzer win for the searingly beautiful frank: sonnets! Humbly grateful to have published some of those poems as the winning entry for our 2018 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize.
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If you want to be featured in our next blogpost, all you have to do is tell us about a time you won something. What did you win? How did it make you feel? . Top responses will get a spot, so reply away!.
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Poets, please send us your work! We have only 75 poetry submissions waiting in our queue.
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “The Laundromat Saint” by @sebastianparamo!. “The way mother folded. my clothes. What did I learn?. I still don’t know what I’m doing.”.
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “For my nephew counting to zero” by Jane Zwart. Read the poem and the artist's statement here: .
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“When I learn Catastrophically” by @marthasilano / Martha Silano is our Poem of the Week. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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Currently accepting submissions for the Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize, with winners receiving an award of $5,000!.
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Poets, please send us submissions! We are running low at the moment and want to read your work. Submit here:
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TMR's summer issue--Moving On--is at press and will be out soon, featuring all kinds of marvelousness. Here's @TianaClarkPoet, on her new poems: "I’ve been trying to make room for strangeness. I am celebrating excess and audacity. Here’s to saying THE DAMN THING!" . Get ready.
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From the Archives: A young @CherylStrayed explains how a letter from Alice Munro inspired her as a #writer
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This week’s Poems of the Week are “Blood Ode” and “Breath Ode” by Diamond Forde!.
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Black Hole in the Long Island Sound” by Peter LaBerge / @tweeterlabird. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Lucie” by JSA Lowe / @jsalowe. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Sports Cards” by Jose Hernandez Diaz. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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Yesterday our staff of #poetry #fiction and #nonfiction readers read over 100 submissions and passed along a third of them for 2nd or 3rd or 4th opinions--in case anyone wondered if we are reading this summer. Now seeking fiction & poetry for fall. All genres needed for winter!.
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Our final Short Story Month podcast is about "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves":
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In celebration of Harriet Tubman's new place on the $20 bill, try these biographies of her:
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This week's Poem of the Week is “[Takes time to get to minimalism, years lived through, eau de]” by @dlseuss! .
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Not an Ode to April 22nd, 2019” by Gisselle Yepes.
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “he doesn’t flirt with me, he just texts me love poems” by Zain Murdock!. Read the poem and author's note here:
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In order to inject a little positivity into your timelines, here’s a quick thread of a few of our past women contributors for today’s #tbt!.
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “how my parents explained war to me” by Liala Zaray / @liala_af. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Having Purged” by Nicole Callihan / @NicoleLooped. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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Announcing the 2020 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize Winners! -
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Submit to our Miller Audio Prize! $1000 for the winner in each category: humor, prose, poetry, documentary.
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Hark, interwebs! The 28th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize is underway hear at the Missouri Review, and we thirst and hunger over your best submissions. $5000 cash prizes in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry! Full details here:
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Here's a sneak peek at our new cover, featuring art by Kenny Morrison.
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if you then you don’t .don’t love deserve .me at my me at my
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We are overjoyed to share the news that Sally Wen Mao's "Anna May Wong blows out sixteen candles" has won a Pushcart Prize!.
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TMR is proud and grateful to be the recipient of a $10,000 #NEAFall15 Art Works grant to help us get good writing into print!.
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And now. the WINNERS. Join us in congratulating the winners, runners-up, and finalists of the 31st Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize! -
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Congratulations to Tamara Titus (fiction), Meghann Plunkett (poetry), and Rose Smith (nonfiction), winners of our 27th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize! Please visit our site for the full list of winners, runners-up, and finalists.
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Self-Portrait as a Woman Halved” by Carolina Hotchandani / @CHotchandani. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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Check out our new interview with poet @jasonykoo, former TMR Poetry Editor and founder and executive director of @BrooklynPoets (among other things), as well as the fiction debut of Marianne Hoffard in the latest BLAST! Go here for links to all: .
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In case you missed this wonderful compendium of writing insights by Anne Carson @lithub yesterday:
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Theories of Revenge” by Paul Guest / @paulmguest. Read it and the Artist's Statement here:
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Also, writers: we're one of the few #litmags that publish long stories (8K to 12K). Keep us in mind!.
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Triptych of Southern Sea” by Aiden Heung / @AidenHeung!. Read the full poem and artist's statement here:
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “When Absence Becomes a Form of Presence” by Chelsea Dingman. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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Our fall issue is at the printers! Here's a sneak peek at the cover.
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Congratulations again to Aamina Ahmad, this year's Peden Prize winner for her story, "July Sun," which appeared in our 2015 Summer issue!
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Minnie Mouse vs. Security” by M.K. Foster. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Two Hundred Million Years Ago This Was All a Sea Floor” by Martha Silano / @marthasilano. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Love Poem Grounded in the Seismic Communication of Elephants” by Jennifer Richter / @JenRichter_ !. Read the full poem and artist's statement here:
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Vox Magazine did a wonderful article about our editor, Speer Morgan, tracing his forty-year career with TMR.
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Hello, creative writers of the internet: the 2024 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize has a new, extended deadline: October 21! Click here for more:
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Congratulations and well-deserved huzzahs to Elisa Faison for being named the 2023 winner of our Peden Prize! Rachel Yoder selected her story “Motherlove” as the finest short story we published in the last volume year. It originally appeared in the Winter 2023 issue of TMR
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What’s do you listen to while you #write? . Share your favorite albums and artists below and we’ll add them to the TMR Spotify Writers Playlist. #motivationmonday
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Check out @ElectricLit's interview with former TMR managing editor @mpnye on his recent book: “Finding the Violence in Male Friendship” by @vitcavage
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"You keep using that hashtag. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya.
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Delighted to see TMR past fiction contributor R. O. Kwon's debut novel reviewed in The New Yorker! @rokwon #fiction @NewYorker.
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Threat is Not Always an Omen” by Grace MacNair / @GraceMacnair. Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
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James Franco is publishing his poetry collection on Graywolf Press. Well played, Mayans. Well played. http://t.co/8vFAa2Jd.
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"your heart is an American heart and it hurts and you go to the paper you pick up a pencil and you begin to write"
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What is sacrificed when one person in a relationship agrees to follow their partner to a new place? Cameron Carr's "How One Gets to Memphis or Any Other Place" explores this question full of other questions w/ classic songs by Carole King and Tom T. Hall:
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We've extended our Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize deadline to October 16. Learn more and enter here:
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We loved this immediately. Let us praise it as it goes on to better barnyards and deserved acclaim. We say thee YAY, @sdeflitchy!.
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Head over to our Facebook page to enter to win one of four copies of the new Best American, featuring @meronhadero's "The Suitcase" from TMR
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Wonderful commentary by @VChangPoet on 2018 Editors' Prize winner @dlseuss' Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks, which is a finalist for the 2018 #NBCCAward in poetry. Huzzahs to all!.
"Seuss’s book is a wonderfully sophisticated and mature collection. You get the sense that there’s a life lived underneath these poems." . @VChangPoet on @dlseuss' "Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks," finalist for the 2018 @NBCC award in poetry.
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Our friends over at 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 are accepting submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry until SUNDAY (𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐘). Check 'em out!.
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Announcing the winners of the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize! - *|*
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The thing about our $5K Editors' Prize: we want to find the best, so we read every piece carefully. Including yours.
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AI can't name paint colors very well--so maybe we'll continue to need human novelists and poets?
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This week’s Poem of the Week is “o god let me be soft” by Marlin M. Jenkins!.
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Very sad news today as we learn that the poet Jon Tribble has died. We send our heartfelt thoughts and deepest condolences to his communities and family at @CrbOrchdReview & @SIUC, & most especially @allisonjoseph.
we pulled onto. the Arkansas River Bridge blasting that song, a pink and gray sunrise. still blazing across the sky, for a little while everything adding up. —Jon Tribble.
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This week, we are excited to present "Fairy Tale for Mother and Son", a new poem by @SallyRKindred. #poemoftheweek.
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#CallForSubmissions We read year round, so #submit your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to us!
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We know writers must write when inspiration strikes, which inconveniently tends to come in the middle of the night. There's one more midnight left for you to cobble your Jeffery E. Smith Editors' Prize submission together!
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We strongly recommend the new issue of @GuernicaMag on "Class in America" http://t.co/RNNziQ7lal
#litmags.
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Coffee and writers: a love story as old as any. Today we celebrate #nationalcoffeeday and the…
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