Our annual contest awards prizes of $1,000 in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Winners and finalists will make up next summer's print issue. FInalists receive $100. Winners and finalists receive a year subscription to Mississippi Review and two copies of the issue in which their work appears.

• Fiction and nonfiction entries should be 1,000 - 8,000 words.
• Poetry entries should be 3 - 5 poems totaling 10 pages or less. Please attach as one document.

There is no limit on the number of entries you may submit.

Online entry fee via Submittable is $16 per entry. Each entrant will receive a copy of the prize issue.

All submissions will be read anonymously. Please remove or redact your name and any contact information from your submission.

No manuscripts will be returned.

Previously published work is ineligible.

Simultaneous submissions are welcomed and encouraged as long as you withdraw your submission upon acceptance elsewhere.

Contest opens August 15, 2024, and the deadline is January 1, 2025. 

Winners and finalists will be announced in March and publication is scheduled for June of next year.

Paper entries will still be accepted. If submitting a paper submission, please remove your name from the manuscript and submit a separate title page with your contact information and the title of your submission. Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope for notification. Send paper entries and a check (payable to Mississippi Review) for $15 to: 

Mississippi Review Prize

118 College Drive #5144

Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406-0001

If you have questions, please email: msreview@usm.edu

Please note, however, that we do not accept submissions through email.

We usually open for submissions to our Winter issue in May or June. This issue is often themed but not always. Check back here, our Submittable page, and/or follow our social media for updates on this submission window. Contributors receive $50, two copies of the issue in which their work appears, as well as a year subscription to Mississippi Review.

We do not accept submissions through email.