33rd Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize

DEADLINE: October 1, 2023
$5,000 Fiction | $5,000 Nonfiction | $5,000 Poetry
NOW OPEN!
Winners receive publication, promotion, and a cash prize.
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- Entries must be previously unpublished.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 latest title in our imprint, TMR 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 “All Access” 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.
Submit
DEADLINE: October 1, 2023
Winners will be announced in early 2024.
Questions? E-mail contest_question@moreview.com
Read a prizewinning story by Melissa Yancy, an essay by Peter Selgin, and a selection from poetry winners Katie Bickham, Kai Carlson-Wee, and Alexandra Teague.
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