Submissions

Submissions for Mississippi Review 53.3 are closed. We plan to publish this issue in Winter 2026.

Submission Note: Some writers have let us know that they didn’t receive our message on a recently declined submission to issue 53.3. We are looking into why the message wasn’t delivered on Submittable and apologize for any confusion this may have caused. We are hoping to work out this messaging issue soon.

We always appreciate the chance to read your work, thank you for considering us as a home for your writing, and hope that you’ll send us more work in the future.

If you have any questions about the status of your submission to issue 53.3, please feel free to inquire by email (msreview@usm.edu).

Winter Issue 53.3

The Mississippi Review 2026 Prize opens August 1, 2025. We’ll accept work until January 1, 2026.

We award prizes of $1,000 in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Winners and finalists make up the contest issue, published in Summer 2026.

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