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Short Story Month, Day 26: Antonya Nelson
During the month of May, The Missouri Review will highlight a single short story to help celebrate National Short Story Month. We’ve asked a diverse group of readers and writers to participate by...
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Short Story Month, Day 27: “The Sex Lives of African Girls”
During the month of May, The Missouri Review will highlight a single short story to help celebrate National Short Story Month. We’ve asked a diverse group of readers and writers to participate by...
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Short Story Month, Day 30: “Theft in the Pastry Shop”
During the month of May, The Missouri Review will highlight a single short story to help celebrate National Short Story Month. We’ve asked a diverse group of readers and writers to participate by...
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The November Story
Today’s Blog post comes from Silas Hansen. My first experience with Rebecca Makkai’s “The November Story” was actually not in print, but from a This American Life podcast I listened to on my way to my...
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Working Writers Series: Darci Schummer
Welcome back to our many-part series where we chat with Working Writers who have not had success in the traditional sense. No major awards, no books in print, maybe only a few or no publications, but...
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Here’s A Little Something to Remember Me By
Today’s blog post comes from Rebecca Meacham. Who would condemn the grieving parents of a long-lost, likely murdered boy? Who would turn these parents’ tears to treacle, their mourning into...
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Working Writers Series: Q Lindsey Barrett
Welcome back to our many-part series where we chat with Working Writers who have not had success in the traditional sense. No major awards, no books in print, maybe only a few or no publications, but...
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Writing Against Expectations: An Open Letter
Today’s blog post comes from LaTanya McQueen. Recently, I went back and read ZZ Packer’s short story “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere.” At the beginning the protagonist Dina is participating in a series of...
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The Artful Wounding
For Vice’s Fiction issue of 2013, the editors decided to focus on the female writer. There’s the heavy hitters, of course. Stories by Mary Gaitskill and Joyce Carol Oates, an interview with the...
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Working Writers Series: Kris Underwood
Welcome back to our many-part series where we chat with Working Writers who have not had success in the traditional sense. No major awards, no books in print, maybe only a few or no publications, but...
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Reflections on The Editors Prize
Today’s blog post comes from Katie Bickam. When I was a kid, I had ages picked out like benchmarks for all of my accomplishments. By thirteen I should have been properly kissed. By eighteen I should...
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Working Writers Series: Becky Tuch
Welcome back to our many-part series where we chat with Working Writers who have a few or no publications, but are still writing. Our goal is to give voice to a wide range of writers, to learn from...
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Delights and Dangers: Flatness in Fairy and Folktales
I started young on fairy tales. This is, perhaps, the fault of my mother, who instilled in me a love of reading when I was a wee thing. When I was sick with pneumonia, certain I was going to die, she...
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Working Writers Series: Ted Hash-Berryman.
Welcome back to our many-part series where we chat with Working Writers who have not had success in the traditional sense. No major awards, no books in print, maybe only a few or no publications, but...
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From a Small, Big Place: Cultures, Complexities, and Writing in a Globalized...
Today’s post comes from Misha Rai and Jonathan Bellot. This post stems from a place of rage. Of having being misunderstood. Misconstrued. Misread. Over time, our rage at being mislabelled as a...
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Working Writers Series: Jacob Cheeseman
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On Winning the Editor’s Prize
Today’s Blog Post comes from Terry Thaxton What a great deal I thought: a reading fee that will also get me a subscription to The Missouri Review. But I didn’t have any poems ready to go. I had that...
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Working Writers Series: Brian Beatty
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Working Writers Series: Melissa Chandler
Welcome to our many-part series where we chat with Working Writers who have not had success in the traditional sense. No major awards, no books in print, maybe only a few or no publications, but are...
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Working Writers Series: Tim Knight
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