The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize
Deadline: October 1, 2019
$5,000 Fiction | $5,000 Nonfiction | $5,000 Poetry
Winners receive publication, invitation to a reception and reading in their honor, and a cash prize. Submit one piece of fiction or nonfiction up to 8,500 words or up to 10 pages of poems. Enter online or by mail. All entries considered for publication. Regular entry fee: $25. All-Access entry fee: $30. Winners will be announced in early 2020.
Each entrant receives a one-year subscription to the Missouri Review in digital format (normal price $24) and a paperback copy of A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed, Jason Brown's collection of linked stories, from Missouri Review Books (normal price $14.95). All-Access entrants receive full access to our ten-year digital archive.
Questions? Email contest_question@moreview.com.
Read a prizewinning story by Melissa Yancy, an essay by Peter Selgin, or past poetry winners Katie Bickham, Kai Carlson-Wee, and Alexandra Teague.
