The Perkoff Prize sponsored by the Missouri Review
Deadline: March 15, 2026
The Perkoff Prize awards $1,000 each and publication and promotion to writers of the best story, set of poems, and essay that engage in evocative ways with health, wellness, and medicine as judged by the editors. All entries are considered for publication.
Guidelines:
- All submissions must engage with health and medicine in some way.
- All submissions must be previously unpublished.
- Submit one piece of fiction or nonfiction up to 8,500 words, or any number of poems in 6-10 pages.
- Winners will be published in a print issue of TMR.
- Check out the prizewinners and finalists from last year's contest here. Winners will be announced in late 2026.
- All entries will be considered for publication (whether in print or online, or as part of our Poem of the Week or BLAST features).
- 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.
- Early-Bird entry fee: $15. Each entrant receives a one-year subscription to the Missouri Review in digital format (normal price $24) and a digital copy of the latest anthology from TMR Books.
- All-Access entry fee: $30. In addition to a one-year digital subscription and digital anthology, entrant receives access to a full decade of digital issues.
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