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We are currently reading the submissions for our 2025 Mississippi Review Prize. Finalists and winners will be announced soon. Congrats to last year’s finalists and winners below!

Adam Warren

"Literal Spit"

Olivia Fantini

"Jellyfish"

Alice Hatcher 

"The End of the Line"

Jillian Jackson

"Family Resemblance"

Bryan D. Price

"Memorybook"

Kathryn Shuff

"Single Use"

Jessie Kraemer

"Object Permanence"

Marcus Spiegel

"Blood from a Cactus"

Stacey C. Johnson

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Sea"

Stacey Balkun

"Lent in the Anthropocene"

Jacob R. Benavides

"A Long Life"

Marina Kraiskaya (Brown)

"Poem for James Schuyler"

Samuel Burt

"Daniel"

Chloe Cook

"Home for Spring Break and I Become Canine"

L.S. Klatt

"The Departed"

Rose McLarney

"good nature"

Sally O'Keeffe

"Exercise Bicycle at McLean with John Keats"

Cindy Juyoung Ok

"Our Ascriptions"

Dana Roeser

"Dishabille"

Ellen June Wright

"I'll Never Forget the Man Who Stepped Onto the Lorraine Hotel's Balcony"

Matthew Zhao

"Da Capo al Fine"