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Literary magazine, founded in 1972. Publishing Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction out of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers. Guest Editor: Rachael Fowler Associate editors: Keri Miller & Emilee Kinney
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Coming oh so very soon! Mississippi Review 52.3 THE ART ISSUE!

The Mississippi Review prizes in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction are now open until January 1st, 2025. Send us your best work! For more info visit our Submittable page: mississippireview.submittable.com/submit

2024 Nonfiction Prize Winner "Object Permanence" by Jessie Kraemer is an essay about Margaret Wise Brown and her classic children's book Goodnight, Moon. Read the full essay in Mississippi Review 52 1&2 available now on our website.

The 2024 Poetry Prize winner is "Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Sea" by Stacey C. Johnson. Check out this beautiful long poem in issue 52 1&2

New issue! New snippets! This excerpt is from the story "Literal Spit" by Adam Warren, winner of our 2024 Fiction Prize. A story about staying true to yourself...and spitting on a bad guy's corpse. Order issue 52 1&2 to read the whole story.

Submissions are open for The Art Issue until June 30th. Dazzle us! Delight us! Put us to bed in a pink room of splendor with your poetry and prose.

Send us your best fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or hybrid pieces on art by June 30th. See our Submittable page for more info on "The Art Issue."

We're open for submissions May 1 - June 30. We're looking for writing inspired by art for our Winter 2025 issue. See our Submittable page for more info.

We're open for submissions for The Art Issue! May 1- June 30. For more info, please visit our Submittable page.

Mark your calendars: Mississippi Review will open for submissions May 1 - June 30. We are looking for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction on/featuring/inspired by art: visual, performing, music, film, etc. More info coming soon.

From the essay "Grief Maps" by Ashleigh Bell Pedersen in Mississippi Review 51.3

From the poem "Ars Poetica as Told by My Father" by Ruth Awad in Mississippi Review issue 51.3

From the story "Terrible Personality" by Bridget Adams in Mississippi Review issue 51.3 "Grief is like this: an inexplicable, uncontrollable intrusion. Every metaphor is stupid, but Catherine keeps searching for one."

Today’s a good day to treat yourself 🍬 The next 20 people to order issue 51.3 will receive a free sticker! Order on our website: sites.usm.edu/mississippi-...

From the poem “A Brief History of Accidental Inventions” by Dorsey Craft in Mississippi Review issue 51.3

From the story "Last Rites" by @chaseburke.bsky.social in our latest issue. "I waited, daring someone to confront me. I yearned to be recognized, to be addressed."

Congratulations to our 2024 Poetry Prize winner Stacey Johnson & finalists Stacey Balkun, Samuel Burt, Chloe Cook, Marina Kraiskaya Brown, Jacob Benavides, Rose McLarney, Dana Roeser, L.S. Klatt, Sally O'Keeffe, Cindy Juyoung Ok, Ellen June Wright, and Matthew Zhao.

Congratulations to our 2024 fiction winner Adam Warren and finalists Olivia Fantini, Alice Hatcher, Jillian Jackson, Bryan Price, and Kathryn Shuff 🎉 Their stories will appear in our summer 2024 issue.

Congratulations to our 2024 Nonfiction Prize winner Jessie Kraemer and finalist Marcus Spiegel! Their essays will be published in our summer issue 🎉

Mississippi Review 51.3 has arrived!

Mississippi Review 51.3 has arrived!

Mississippi Review 51.3 has arrived!

Very pleased to have a short story in the new @mississippireview.bsky.social about, uh, Satanists. The first paragraph is still one of my faves, even though I first drafted it in (gulp) 2015. So, yes, this story is almost 10 years old. It's been rejected like 50 times. Yet here tis, in print!

From the poem “The Lightbulb Fills with Water” by Henry Mills in MR 51 1&2

Come visit us at AWP booth no. 1221 and tell us your favorite palindrome. Ours is: 1221 1221 1221 1221! . . #awp24 #awp #mississippireview #missreview

From the poem “My Great-Grandmother’s Missing Butter Knife” by Caroline Laganas in MR 51 1 &2.

From the poem “Self-Portrait with Sertraline” by Despy Boutris in issue 51 1&2

For #AWP24 we’ve teamed up with Sprung Formal, Bear Review, and LMNL Lit for an off-site reading Wednesday, February 7th 8:00 - 10:30 pm at 21c Museum Hotel. We’ve got a stellar line up of readers. Hope to see you there!

Hoppin’ John New Year from Miss Review!

The Mississippi Review Prize closes in two weeks! $1,000 prize for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Winners and finalists will be published in our 2024 summer issue. We can’t wait to read your work! For more info see our Submittable page.

Want to win a contest? Want some money? Want to be nominated for a Pushcart? Want to go for a W-A-L-K? Submit your best poetry, fiction, and/or nonfiction to the 2024 Mississippi Review prize by January 1st. Winners receive $1,000 and publication in our summer issue.

Final proof meeting with editors Adam Clay, Brooke Harries, Keri Miller, and mascot Miss Review! Issue 51.3 will be off to the printer soon!

Hurry up! The 2024 Mississippi Review Prize closes January 1st! Our annual contest awards prizes of $1,000 in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Winners and finalists will make up next summer’s print issue. See our Submittable page for more info.

The 2024 Mississippi Review Prize is open until January 1st. Our annual contest awards prizes of $1,000 in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Winners and finalists will make up next summer’s print issue. See our Submittable page for more info.

Congratulations to our 2023 Pushcart Prize nominees: C.T. Salazar, Dante Di Stefano, Bernardo Wade, Steph Del Rosso, Yoni Gelernter, and Ruby Djuna Haack!

The 2024 Mississippi Review Prize is open until January 1st. Our annual contest awards prizes of $1,000 in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Winners and finalists will make up next summer’s print issue. See our Submittable page for more info.

From the poem “Aftercare” by Tianyu Yi in MR 51 1&2

Sometimes all you need is a fall photo shoot of your favorite anthropomorphized literary journal from space 🍁🛸🌼

From the story “Ham” by John Jodzio in MR 51 1&2

The 2024 Mississippi Review Prize is open until January 1st. Our annual contest awards prizes of $1,000 in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Winners and finalists will make up next summer’s print issue. See our Submittable page for more info.

Proofing our forthcoming issue on this beautiful fall day. Can’t wait to share MR 51.3 with you!

Happy Halloween from Miss Review!

Miss Review ponders the meaning of life.

From the poem “Warning Call” by Kate Wexell in 51 1&2