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miCRo: “Green Line” by Chen Poyu, translated by Nicholas Wong

Former contributor Nicholas Wong masterfully translates Chen Poyu’s haunting poem.

Matt Barrett’s story about knife sellers begins with a book being cut down the spine and builds to a meditation on the weight and heft of words.

Cincinnati Review | December 20, 2023 | miCRo

Like Jay Gatsby or the Lisbon Girls, the mushroom at the center of “Reclamation” wholly occupies the narrator’s–and, in turn the reader’s–attention.

We’re proud to nominate the following authors for this year’s Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions.

A video ode to the places where poetry lives and has lived in Cincinnati, from contributor Jim Palmarini.

Cincinnati Review | December 13, 2023 | miCRo

With candid facts and personal recollections, Jenny Bitner interrogates why flash fiction includes the deaths of children.

SarahFawn Montgomery reads from “Playing House,” her essay about doll-play and training for motherhood, from issue 20.2.

In “Loss for Words” Asma Al-Masyabi explores the links between trauma and the loss of language, connection, community, and self.

We are delighted to announce our 2023 literary award nominees.

Tierney Oberhammer reflects on two images that inspired the story “Sunshine Skyway,” published in issue 20.2.