From Our Soundbooth | July 07, 2016

2016 Audio Contest Runner Up in Humor: Nathan Blanchard

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth Podcast we are excited to feature the first of our runners up of the 2016 Miller Audio Prize Contest. The runner up Humor submission is Nathan Blanchard’s “Bek Mekages: The Mystery of Sunny Delight (Part 1).”

Nathan Blanchard is an MFA candidate in the creative writing program at the University of Alabama. His work has appeared in decomP, Atticus Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere.

In the coming weeks we’ll be featuring the rest of our runners up. And don’t forget about our fall Contest, the Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize, with winners in the categories of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction each receiving an award of $5,000!

We hope you enjoy listening to Nathan’s piece!

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