The Missouri Review‘s 34th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize is accepting submissions through Tuesday, October 1! One winner from each genre (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) will receive a $5,000 cash prize, as well as publication and promotion. Winners will be announced in early 2025. There is a $4 reading fee for each genre. Click here to open the online submissions form! Contest guidelines and eligibility details can be found below:
Guidelines
- Submit one piece of fiction or nonfiction up to 8,500 words or any number of poems between 6 to 12 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- Entries must be previously unpublished.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 latest title in our imprint, Missouri Review Books, a short story anthology by former contributors (normal price $7.95).
- “All Access” Entry fee: $30. In addition to the one-year digital subscription to the Missouri Review and TMR Books e-book, the Life Support: Stories of Health & Medicine, entry fee grants access to the last 10 years of digital issues and the audio recordings of each digital issue.
Eligibility
- 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.
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Questions? E-mail contest_question@moreview.com