We’ve just finished finalizing edits on our upcoming issue, which means that we’ve become very familiar with the stories, poems, and essays contained within. Like, super familiar. Like, sit-three-to-a-seat-on-a-school-bus-on-a-hot-day familiar. After all that quality time spent with prose and poetry, staff favorites tend to emerge. Here’s Associate Editor Becky Adnot-Haynes on why she likes Aharon …
Don Peteroy is at it again, asking relevant writers irrelevant questions. But could this be the last Irrelevant Question he irrelevantly asks? Writer Andrew Farkas imagines this grim future, and provides an answer that Peteroy didn’t want to hear. At this posting, Peteroy is still recovering from his psychic break. Andrew Farkas is a fiction …
We’ve stocked up on the essentials as we finish our copy editing and prepare to send the next issue (due out in May!) to our amazing typesetter and designer. Over time, we’ve collected an odd mix of things on our desks: highlighters, flavored waters, and a sharp knife on one; a king-cake baby, Starbucks mug, …
We’re finalizing edits for Cincinnati Review 10.1, our Summer 2013 issue. CR editors were asked to write a little something about their favorite pieces. That’s good. It’s been difficult to contain our enthusiasm, and the strain has been affecting our work, health, and personal relationships. To start off, here’s Associate Editor Lisa Ampleman: I wasn’t …
Our contributors are cultured folk: They like the 2005 Bordeaux and donkey cheese, and prefer Dvorak to One Direction—well, usually. We did accept a long poem composed of interlocking haiku singing the praises of the youthful Harry Styles‘s floppy hair, but apparently another journal had already taken it. The following contributors from Issue 9.2 are …
Hobart interviews associate editor Becky Adnot-Haynes, a talented and accomplished writer as well as a brilliant editor!
From deep in the mysterious recesses of the Heartland, from amidst the famed amber waves and corn-mazes, from sparkling river communities, from dingy diners & dives, from lakeside campuses and cities named for expensive, bubbly wine (but especially from dingy diners and dives), the Monster Mags of the Midwest have emerged, literary heroes, ready to …
Of all our volunteers, Lisa Summe has the best collection of pants. She’ll tell you herself: she owns more than twenty pairs. What we haven’t yet shared on the blog is Lisa’s love of opening new batches of submissions. She gets crazy excited when she sees a big stack of envelopes and, when assigned mail …
Thanks to everyone who played our Game of the Month: Copyediting Extravaganza! A couple of you were oh so close to getting all of the answers right, but alas—the perfect score proved elusive. For those of you who used to look forward to grading your own spelling quizzes (we admit it—we did), here’s the key: …
Last chance, readers: Submit your answers to our Game of the Month by midnight tonight (Monday) for a chance to be one of five winners of thermos, slingpack, or back issue. (The savvy test-takers among you may have noticed that there are some answers already posted, but beware. We’re not telling who—if anyone—is right.)
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