About the program/Scholarship:
The Missouri Review is accepting entries for 32nd Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry. Where Winners receive publication, invitation to a reception and reading in their honor, and a cash prize.
About The Missouri Review:
The Missouri Review, founded in 1978, is one of the most highly regarded literary magazines in the United States. For the past four decades we’ve upheld a reputation for finding and publishing the very best writers first. We are based at the University of Missouri and publish four issues each year. Each issue contains approximately five new stories, three new poetry features, and two essays, all selected from unsolicited submissions sent by writers throughout the world. The Missouri Review maintains an “open submission” policy; we read year-round, sifting through approximately 12,000 submissions each year. New, emerging, and midcareer writers whose work has been published in the Missouri Review have been anthologized over 100 times in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Poetry, The O. Henry Prize Stories, Best of the Net, and The Pushcart Prize, among others.
Benefits/Cost:
- $5,000 Fiction
- $5,000 Nonfiction
- $5,000 Poetry
Eligibility criteria:
- Previous winners of the Editors’ Prize and current University of Missouri students and faculty are ineligible.
- Previous Editors’ Prize finalists are welcome to enter again.
Guidelines:
- Submit one piece of fiction or nonfiction up to 8,500 words or any number of poems up to 10 pages. Please double-space fiction and nonfiction entries.
- Multiple submissions and simultaneous submissions are welcome, but you must pay a separate fee for each entry and withdraw the piece immediately if accepted elsewhere.
- Entries must be previously unpublished.
- Standard Entry fee: $25. Each entrant receives a one-year subscription to the Missouri Review in digital format (normal price $24) and a digital copy of the sixth title in our imprint, TMR Books, Hello, I Love You, a short story anthology by former Editors’ Prize-winners and contributors (normal price $7.95). “All Access” Entry fee: $30. In addition to the one-year digital subscription to the Missouri Review and Private Lives, the “All Access” entry fee grants access to the last 10 years of digital issues and the audio recordings of each digital issue.
Applicant criteria:
Nationality:
No specific nationality required
Age:
- No specific age required
Gender:
- Both
How to Apply:
- Online
- By Mail
Deadline:
- 2022-10-01
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