Magazines
We
publish the Mississippi Review, the Mississippi Review
Online, and Product, a student literary magazine. Read
about them here.
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We Publish Magazines Online and in
Print
The Center for Writers publishes a respected national literary magazine, the
Mississippi Review, and a
student-edited literary magazine called Product. We also offer a course
in publishing and the profession. While we are primarily devoted to the
development of our students as artists, we nevertheless see participation in the
literary culture, and specifically publishing, giving readings, and attending
conferences, as extremely important to the comprehensive shaping of our students
as writers.
Mississippi Review
MR has been said to be among the finest literary magazines of the
moment. Below are some covers of recent print issues, including: a collection of short fiction by
new writers selected in 2002 by Rick Moody; a special omnibus issue on Hamlet
guest edited by the poet David Berry in 2003; an issue on the poets of the
New York School, edited in 2004 by poet and Center faculty member Angela Ball;
several of our annual "Mississippi Review Prize" issues, selected by writers
such as the late Veronica Geng, Thom Jones, Padgett Powell, Lucie Brock-Broido;
our 2004 "Politics & Religion" issue, including pieces by Bill Moyers, Noam Chomsky, Michael Lerner, and many others. We have cultivated a
irredeemably disheveled look in our covers which, from time to time, we regret profoundly. But in the content department we
regret very little. MR is always a lively magazine, always offbeat, not readily pigeonholed.
 
Mississippi Review
has published and continues to publish National Book Award winners, Pulitzer
Prize winners, National Book Critics Circle winners as well as new writers just
beginning their publishing careers. The magazine has been recognized with
Pushcart Prize winners and pieces republished in Best American Short Stories
and Best American Poetry. It’s a magazine which Ann Beattie characterized
as “Among the best small magazines being published,” and which Raymond Carver,
who was an occasional contributor, described as “one of the most
remarkable and indispensable literary journals of our time.” Long-time Southern
writer David Madden commented that “Mississippi Review has become a vital
and significant publication, as good as any, and right here in the South, right
there in Mississippi.” And the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Charles Simic,
himself a contributor to MR, said, “Mississippi Review is probably
one of the best magazines in the country.” Finally, the late John Hawkes, former
head of the writing program at Brown University and a remarkable writer and
prize winner in his own right, said, “Yours is among the truly sustaining
literary publications in the country today.”
Mississippi Review Prize issues
Every year we run a national contest in fiction and
poetry. The Mississippi Review Prize offers awards of $1000 for the winning story and the winning poem(s). The contest begins
April 1 each year and the deadline for submission is October 1 each year. Winners and finalists (usually two
or three dozen
stories and poems) are published in print editions of Mississippi
Review. The competition is open to all U.S. writers except current or former
students and employees of USM. For details of the current contest, click
Mississippi Review Prize.
Mississippireview.com
Among the oldest and most popular literary magazines on the Web,
Mississippreview.com was
established in early 1995 as a site for the publication of fine literary writing. Drawing on
Mississippi Review archives, and on fresh material from
well known writers as well as emerging talents, the online version of Mississippi Review shares some of its content with the print
magazine. As of 2004, the magazine has more than six hundred stories and poems
online, work by such writers as
Thom Jones,
Ben Marcus,
Francine Prose,
Padgett Powell,
Barry Hannah,
Tom Drury,
Elizabeth Gilbert,
Rick Bass,
Ben Neihart,
and from newer writers like
Brian Oberkirch,
Michael
Dermansky,
Courtney
Eldridge,
David
Ryan, Laurie
O'Brien,
Jaime Clarke,
Stacey Richter,
Susan Hubbard,
Larry French. It
is a magazine that was recently
referenced in Writer’s Digest as the fifth most important and influential
on-line publication. Art enough to strangle you, so
take it easy.
Product
Product is the literary magazine of the Center for Writers.
Click the magazine covers below for recent issues of stories and poems from the workshops at the
Center. These are Adobe Acrobat files, printable or readable
onscreen. Best at 1024x768 resolution or better.
These collections of stories and poems
from the workshops at the Center for Writers are edited and published by Center
students.
Each is about a two minute download at 56K and requires Acrobat Reader.
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