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The Missouri Review

The Missouri Review is a literary magazine founded in 1978[1][2] by the University of Missouri. It publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction quarterly. With its open submission policy, The Missouri Review receives 12,000 manuscripts each year and is known for printing previously unpublished and emerging authors.

Discipline

Literary magazine

English

Speer Morgan

1978-present

Quarterly

Mo. Rev.

0191-1961

Each year The Missouri Review hosts the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize contest with $15,000 in prize money for entries in fiction, essays, and poetry. The winners receive prize money, publication, and an invitation to a public awards reception.


The Missouri Review is available in print, digital, and audio formats.

's essay "My Father's Women" appeared in The Best American Essays 2013 (ed. Cheryl Strayed).

Mako Yoshikawa

Rachel Riederer's essay "Patient" appeared in 2011 (ed. Edwidge Danticat).

The Best American Essays

Laura Yeager's short story, "Having Ann", was short-listed for an in 2000.

O. Henry Award

Molly Giles's short story, "Two Words", won an in 2003.

O. Henry Award

's short story "The Rest of Her Life", appeared in The Best American Short Stories 1999 (ed. Amy Tan).

Steve Yarbrough

R.T. Smith's short story, "Docent", appeared in (ed. Lorrie Moore).

The Best American Short Stories 2004

David Shuman's short story, "Stay", was selected as one of the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2005" by (ed. Ann Patchett).

The Best American Short Stories 2006

Susan Perabo's short story, "Treasure", was selected as one of the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2006" by (ed. Stephen King).

The Best American Short Stories 2007

Jacob M. Appel's short story, "Creve Coeur", was selected as one of the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2007" by (ed. Salman Rushdie).

The Best American Short Stories 2008

Katie Chase's story, "Man and Wife", appeared in (ed. Salman Rushdie)

The Best American Short Stories 2008

L.E. Miller's story, "Kind", won an in 2009.

O. Henry Award

Special projects[edit]

Found text[edit]

The Missouri Review also publishes "found text" projects, usually previously unpublished work by past literary figures. These include works by Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Charlotte Brontë, Jack Kerouac and Marianne Moore.

History as literature[edit]

This series highlights diaries and journals of everyday citizens, giving perspective and insight into our past as a nation and people.

List of literary magazines

TMR website

Project MUSE

TMR audio competition

Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize Contest