We are pleased to announce the
2008 Mississippi Review Prize
Winners and Finalists. The 2008 MR Prize Winner in Fiction is
Laura LeCorgne
The 2008 MR Prize Winner in poetry is Lisa Katz
Finalists in fiction and publication in the
prize issue include: Cheryl Alu Colin Bassett Jacalyn Carley Ravsten Cottle David J. Fleming
Jennifer Pashley Helen Phillips Helen Wing Dalia Rosenfeld Lawrence Wood
Finalists in poetry and publication in the
prize issue include: Tina Barr F. J. Bergmann Chard deNiord Ann Fisher-Wirth Rachel Contreni Flynn Charles Fort Elizabeth Harmon
Chloë Joan López David Ray Vern Rutsala M. A. Schaffner Kent Shaw Justin Sider Susan Thomas Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
Maya Jewell Zeller The 2008 MR Prize issue is in press and should be available by April 2008.
We would like to thank all the writers who participated in the annual contest for allowing us an opportunity to become acquainted with your work. There were many exceptional submissions in fiction and in poetry, and making a selection from the nearly one thousand entries was a very difficult chore for the editors of Mississippi Review. We hope that we have done a good job and found stories and poems of diverse and representative sorts. As always when we read, we seek the problematic, the troublesome, the curious, the ill-fitting, the remarkable and the mundane, work that stays with us after we read it, work that challenges our tastes and imaginations, our spirits. We thank you for your help in sending this work our way. |