Pushcart Nominations
Nomination season is always a heated time in our office. We are usually a friendly and collegial...
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Emerging Poets Festival
Along with unicorns, cephalopods, and whiskers on kittens, our list of favorite things includes promoting amazing new writers. Last week we hosted four such talents at our Emerging Poets Festival, where attendees gained insight...
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Book Review News
A decade or so ago, when we read a good book review, it left us both hungry and restless....
Read MoreArt-Song Offering
A bit of news related to our developing interest in words and music. (Look for our first art-song feature in our November issue, coming soon!) Kevin Simmonds, whose poems appeared in 9.2 and will also appear in 11.1...
Read MoreAWP Small Press Publisher Award Finalist!
Thanks, AWP! We are finalists for the AWP Small Press Publisher Award, along with One Story and Creative Nonfiction. The winner will receive $2000 and an exhibit booth at the 2015 conference. We’ll be nibbling our nails...
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CR’s Emerging Poets Festival
Our Emerging Poets Festival kicks off this Friday afternoon in the Elliston Poetry Room, 646...
Read More“Borrowing” from the Best
Kenneth Nichols over at Great Writers Steal has constructed a tutorial in thieving from Brendan Mathews’s short story “My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer.” Mathews’s story first appeared in issue...
Read MoreMonsters of the Midwest Take Seattle
Hey, Space Needle, you think you’re towering? You ain’t seen nothing. We Monsters of the Midwest are going to **literary reference alert** throw a Buick at you. You think you’re observation central? We’re...
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Coming of Age: Paola, Belieu, Busk
Coming of age is difficult, as any awkward teen will tell you. Your body is raging with hormones,...
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What We’re Reading
Justine McNulty: A first collection of stories, Battleborn presents us with a compelling new...
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