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Beginning May 1, 2009 we will be accepting submissions for a summer fiction issue of Mississippi Review Online. Stories for this issue should be 3500 words or less. There is no other theme, idea, concept, rule, or regulation.   Submit May 1 to June 15 to editors@mississippireview.com.  The issue will be put online on or about the first of July, 2009. Editors are Frederick Barthelme, Gary Percesepe, Jane Armstrong, and Jim Whorton.   Meanwhile, check out the poetry book contest detailed below, with three $1000 prizes and three books published by January 2010.  Details after this picture here.   POETRY BOOK CONTEST! Three poetry collections will be selected. All three will be published in January 2010. Three prizes of $1000 will be awarded. Submission Deadline August 1, 2009! Judge: Dara Wier The Mississippi Review Poetry Series is a new annual contest awarding three publication prizes for book-length poetry manuscripts. It is open to all poets working in English except current or former students or employees of Southern Miss. There will be three $1000 prizes and we will produce three full-length (48-64 page) paperback perfect-bound books. Each will bear the cover price of $12 and the three winning books will be packaged as a set for MR subscribers. Each winner will receive the cash prize plus 100 copies of his or her book as payment. Manuscripts may total no more than 56 pages of poetry. Fee is $25 per entry, payable to Mississippi Review. There is no limit on the number of entries an author may submit. Each entrant will receive a set of the three prize-winning books. No manuscripts will be returned. Contest opened March 15, 2009.  Postmark deadline: August 1, 2009. Winners announced: September 2009. Publication scheduled: January 2010. Please put MR Poetry Series, name, address, phone, e-mail, and title on page one of entry. Send to Mississippi Review Poetry Series at 118 College Drive # 5144, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001. With questions call 601.266.5600. Click for details Volume 15, Number 2 Wandering the Archive, II   Stacey Richter The Beauty Treatment Terese Svoboda Weatherproof Vicki Hendricks Gators John Holman I Did That R.H.W. Dillard In the Silent Secret Dark Russell Edson The Moonlighters Myopia John Minichillo Two Lifetime Members of the N.R.A. Who Loved Guns and Life Itself Rick Bass Fiber Rita Dove  Exit Golden Oldie Wiring Home Elizabeth Gilbert Tall Folks         2009 MR Prize Winners are Jennifer Pashley for fiction and Vern Rutsala for poetry. Go here for more.   Feed Something Click this link to provide food for needy animals. Doesn't cost anything, it makes advertising work for you. The 2010 MR Prize Check info about the 2010 MR Prize for poetry and short fiction here. online sales We are in the process of setting up a direct credit card payment system for back issues, subscription, and other items of interest (eh?). About Mississippi Review “. . . the Mississippi Review has become one of the most innovative and indispensable literary magazines on the American scene.”           --David Leavitt “The Mississippi Review is filled with interesting writing.”            --Ann Beattie “The Mississippi Review inspires me as a writer and as an editor.”           --Diane Williams “Hats off to MR on its 30th birthday!”           --John Barth   Subscribe to Mississippi Review, one of the finest print literary magazines in America. A $15 subscription gets you two issues per year including, this year, the three winning books from the Poetry Series. Click here to take a look at some recent issues.

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