The 21st Century musician is presented with a unique opportunity to embrace the power of the web and mobile world to engage and connect with audience members while maintaining the highest artistic integrity. This session ...

The way you design your creative organization or arts career has a huge impact on the value you create with it and draw from it -- in money, in productivity, in work/life balance, in creative satisfaction. This keynote ...

Jennifer Phegley, literary historian and professor of English at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, discusses her book: Educating the Proper Woman Reader: Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health ...

This week, Cary Stough talks to Wendy Xu, Co-editor of iO: a journal of new American poetry. Listen in as these poets talk about how and why iO looks for young emerging poets to publish in its online journal. Xu also talks ...

This podcast is an interview with poet and essayist Danielle Deulen. The Missouri Review's Managing Editor, Michael Nye, sat down to talk with Danielle about her poetry collection, Lovely Asunder, and her memoir, The Riots.

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we continue our First Books Series by talking to Atlanta-based nonfiction writer, Kate Sweeney. Listen in as Sweeney reads excerpts from and then discusses her new book, American ...

Katie Schmid is The Missouri Review's 2011 Audio Contest runner-up in the poetry category.

Anna Pinkert is The Missouri Review 2011 Audio Contest winner in the professionally-recorded documentary category.

This week's episode of The Missouri Review Soundbooth features a live recording of Karen Russell reading excerpts from her novella, Sleep donation, and her short story, "Reeling for the empire." Russell is the author of ...

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth Missouri Review Editor, Speer Morgan, and Marketing Director, Kris Somerville, discuss their "literary dig" at the British Museum where they found a bundle of letters written by ...

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we continue our First Books Series by talking to fiction writer Fiona McFarlane. Listen in as McFarlane reads an excerpt and then discusses her novel, The night guest, which was ...

Emma Weatherill is The Missouri Review's 2012 Audio Contest winner in the audio documentary category.

Every year, thanks to the generosity of Jeffrey E. Smith, The Missouri Review is able to bring all of our Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize winners to Columbia for the weekend to celebrate with the staff and to read their ...

John Hales is The Missouri Review's 2011 Editor's Prize winner in the nonfiction category. This is a reading by John Hales of his essay "Helpline" recorded at the Cherry Hill Conference Center in Columbia, Missouri.

This podcast contains an interview with poet Kimberly Johnson by The Missouri Review's Poetry Editor, Austin Segrest. Most of the content focuses on Ms. Johnson's upcoming book of poetry, "Uncommon prayer", and her translation ...

George Looney is The Missouri Review's 2011 Editors' Prize winner in poetry. This recording is of George Looney's live reading of four of his poems at the Cherry Hill Conference Center in Columbia, Missouri.

Abigail Keel is a runner-up in The Missouri Review's 2015 Miller Audio Prize Contest in the Documentary category. This is a reading of Abigail's submission, "Heartland, Missouri."

Karen Brown is the 2015 winner of the Miller Audio Prize Contest in the Audio Documentary category for her entry titled, "Lance and Nina: a story of addiction and redemption."

On the May 7, 2015 Soundbooth Podcast, The Missouri Review presented the third installment from the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize Reception: a reading by Andrew Cohen, from his 2014 Editors' Prize winning essay "Ronaldo."

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we are continuing to feature the winners of our 2014 Audio Contest with our winner in the poetry category, Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua.