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Big Muddy
Journal of the Mississippi River Valley
About Big Muddy: Multidisciplinary issues and events, especially but not solely concerning the 10-state area that borders the Mississippi River, from the Canadian border to the Gulf Coast
Contact Information:
MS 2650, One University Plaza
Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Phone: 573-651-2044
E-mail: upress[at]semo[dot]edu
Web: www6.semo.edu/universitypress/
Submission/Subscription Information:
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 8-12 weeks Payment: copies Contests: Yes (see website) ISSN: 1532-9860 Founded: 2000 Issues per year: 2 Copy price: $8 Average pages: 150 Sample price (postpaid): $6 Subscription (1 year): $20
Small Press Review calls Big Muddy “a captivating collection.” Big Muddy has been rollin’ since 2000, publishing an interdisciplinary selection of creative nonfiction essays, history, poetry, fiction, biography, environmental sciences, industry/business, photography, music, and art in a perfect-bound, color-cover format. While topics related to the Mississippi River Valley are always encouraged, a direct relation to the area is not necessary; after all, most of the continent leads in one way or another to the Big River Road. The magazine also includes short (300-500 word) reviews of predominantly independent and university-press books.
Our past contributors include emerging writers who deserve to be heard, as well as well-known voices such as that of Colleen McElroy, Stephen Graham Jones, Virgil Suarez, Jim Elledge, Elaine Fowler Palencia, Ryan G. Van Cleave, David Radavitch, and Richard Newman. Big Muddy sponsors two annual fiction contests: the Mighty River Short Story contest and the Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction contest.
Recent issues:
This issue [12.2, 2013] features work from Leon Anderson, Don Boes, Sandra M. Castillo, Caroline Collins, Bradley Cook, Jesse DeLong, Jon Densford, Heather Dobbins, Damon Falke, Trina Gaynon, Gerry Grubbs, Justin Hamm, Jeff Hardin, Dixon Hearne, Brad Hooper, William Jablonsky, Charles Jensen, Lisa Knopp, Kevin Koch, Tim Leach, Sandy Longhorn, Adam Love, Richard Luftig, Angie Macri, Carolyn Miller, Greg Moglia, Travis Mossotti, Stanley Morris Noah, Mark Poor, Casey Pycior, Doug Ramspeck, Jill Reid, Dusty Richards, Steven Ray Smith, Donna L. Shrum, Robert Tremmel, James Valvis, Patrick VandenBussche, Jack Vian, Mark Vogel, and Liz Young.
This issue [11.2, 2011] features nonfiction by Lisa Knopp; fiction by Jan Bowman, Logan Garrels, Mickey Heath, Jacqueline Guidry, Ryan Stone, Justin St. Clair, Susie Potter Richard Dokey, Billie Louise Jones, G.D. McFetridge, Jacquelyn Milan, Joe Sacksteder; plus poetry by Jean Berrett, Renee Emerson, E.I. Pruitt, Sheila Sanderson, Sally Van Doren, Mark Taska, Errol Miller, David Bond, and more.
This issue [11.1, 2011] features work by Lisa Ampleman, Kevin C. Avery, Roy Bentley, Natalie Hamm DeVaull, Lowell Jaeger, Lynn Morrow, Sheree Nielsen, Tom Ramsey, Kathleen Knutsen Rowell, Nicole Trokey, Jason M. Vaughn, Bill Wolak, and much more.
last updated 04/22/2013