We asked our Schiff Award winners in prose and poetry to shoot us a few words on the pieces that garnered both praise (from our editor judges) and prizes (from our treasure palace). Here’s what they had to say. Karrie Higgins: “The Bottle City of God” started as a spin-off piece from an essay I …
Recent volunteer and PhD-poet extraordinaire Julia Koets joins us by way of San Francisco and Summerville, South Carolina. When asked about how the Midwest stacks up against northern California and the Deep South, Julia graciously restrains her contempt for goetta, her bemusement about the Ohio General Assembly, and her utter indifference toward the Bearcats this …
Hear ye, hear ye! (Because we stopped the government to create the appropriate drama for the following announcement.) The winners of 2013’s Robert and Adele Schiff Awards are (musical flourish, swirly-yet-sweeping arm gesture): Karrie Higgins for “The Bottle City of God” (Prose) and Martha Silano for “The World” (Poetry) Of course, we received many wonderfully …
We at the mag are delighted that so many pieces from our pages have been recognized as NOTABLE by the Besties: Best American Short Stories: Steve De Jarnatt, “Mulligan”; Colleen Morrissey, “Good Faith”; and Edith Pearlman, “Life Lessons” Best American Essays: Tracy Burkholder, “Proof” Best American Nonrequired Reading: Steve Amick, “Not Even Lions and Tigers” …
You have a body. You are a body. And yet your body is not ALL you are. Yep, the mind/body problem is scary stuff. It has puzzled philosophers for centuries and driven countless philosophy undergrads to change their majors to business. But our contributors are not afraid of corporeality, or if they are, they use …
All last week we “collated,” which means we gathered round the institutional faux-wood table that dominates our wee office and compared piles upon piles of proofread galleys for our November issue. It’s kind of like that scene in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie where the everlasting gobstoppers are unveiled. (Editor’s Note: …
New volunteer Dario Sulzman has had many previous lives. We don’t mean that in the flighty New Age sense, though if we brought in the right mystic, perhaps we’d learn that Dario was a WWII pilot who pressed “eject” instead of “bomb” by accident, or a seventeenth-century Russian seamstress who died of infection after she …
We got some nice notice in a New Pages review of our summer issue. Look for some fun additions to our usual lineup this 10th anniversary year! Review by Justin Brouckaert Now ten years old, The Cincinnati Review has established a reputation as one of the top literary journals in the Midwest. This issue, which includes …
We’ll soon be featured in the Standout Markets column of Writer’s Digest magazine. Here’s a sneak peak at a few of the interview questions as well as the answers that genre eds Don Bogen and Michael Griffith collaborated on. What makes a submission to The Cincinnati Review stand out? A combination of boldness and craft, a …
There’s something odd about the chair that Associate Editor Lisa Ampleman vacated when she graduated this past spring. The spot is now occupied by Brian Brodeur, but sometimes his visage seems to fluctuate, his beard disappears, and he speaks in Lisa’s voice when he says, “I’m headed to Starbucks for a green tea latte,” or …
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