Submissions

Mississippi Review 54.3 is now open for submissions. For this issue, we're looking for work that focuses on the following: teaching, writing, the teaching of writing, classroom spaces, learning spaces, or creative spaces. We're happy to read work that approaches these topics or related ones.

Though we will read and consider all work submitted, we are particularly interested in receiving work from writers who have not yet been published.

Winter Issue 2027

The Mississippi Review 2027 Prize opens August 1, 2026. We’ll accept work until January 1, 2027.

We award prizes of $1,000 in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Winners and finalists make up the contest issue, published in Summer 2027.

Contest Issue

Check our Submittable page below for more information on our current calls for submissions.

We do not accept submissions through email.

Submit

Visit our Submittable Page

We prefer to receive submissions through Submittable. If you are unable to access Submittable, however, we are happy to consider submissions through mail. Send mailed submissions to the address below with a cover letter (including contact information) and your submission fee as a check. We do accept multiple submissions at a time. Each additional submission requires its own submission fee. We do not return mailed manuscripts.

Mississippi Review

118 College Drive #5144

Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406-0001

Mailed Submissions