The 2012 Mississippi Review Prize Winners and Finalists
Fiction Winner
Lauren Watel
"The Adventure Continues"
Finalists in Fiction

Katie Cotugno, "Inside Your Head the Sound of Glass"
Gail Henningsen, "The Cure for Anything"
Josh Peterson, "A Cold Man"
Richard Spilman, "Mr. Dearth"
Poetry Winner
Mary Emma Koles
“Dressage”
Finalists in Poetry

J.P. Dancing Bear, "Father's Day"
Portia Carryer, "Peace, with the Thieves"
Mary Fitzpatrick ,"One Face May Hide Another"
Lauren Hilger, "Inordinary Time"
Martha Hollander, "Achilles"
Rich Ives, "Watching the Wrong Woman Stroking a Pear"
Michael Karl (Ritchie), "Fantomas"
Rachel Inez Lane, "Scheherazade Has One Night to Save Her Life"
Jenny Molberg, "Civilization"
Dan O'Brien, "The War Reporter Paul Watson and the Sapper in the Vineyard"
Jill Osier, "Left to Itself the Heart Keeps Trying to Tell A Story"
Sarah Pemberton Strong, "Moving a Baby Grand"
Susan Thomas, "History of the Main Complaint"
Emily Van Kley, "Not in the Same Way Again"
Harry Waitzman, "In That Dark Womb of Happiness"
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, "Inside Those Rocking Walls"
Leslie Williams, "In Truth"
We would like to express our appreciation to all who sent work to the contest.
 
Response from poets and fiction writers across the country was terrific and there were many wonderful submissions that were remarked by readers and final judges alike as eminently publishable. Thanks to all who submitted.
The Editors

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