26th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize #seanocarolan.com

$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.
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Entries must be previously unpublished.
Entry fee: $22
Each entrant receives a one-year subscription to the Missouri Review in print or digital format.
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
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Winners will be announced in January 2017.

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.