Fiction Editor Michael Griffith on choosing Carey Cameron’s “Thursday”: “Thursday” takes up—in subtle, touching, psychologically acute ways—a subject that seems to get relatively little attention in literary fiction: the slippages and frailties of late middle age, the tectonic grindings and intricate negotiations necessary to long marriage. It’s a sharp, smart story, tender but resolutely unsentimental. …
Last week we gave you a taste of the CR staff’s nonliterary talents (it turns out that in addition to being experts at polishing manuscripts for publication, we’ve got mad skillz in quite a few different areas). Today, the fun continues. To give you another deeper look into the CR family, we extracted (using gentle …
It’s here! The Best American Poetry 2012 has “dropped” and is in stores/amazon warehouses as you read this. Guest edited by the poet extraordinaire of Mark Doty, this issue features five, count em’, five CR poems. That is almost 7 percent of the whole anthology. And we didn’t even have to bribe. In its pages, …
Each new issue of The Cincinnati Review is like a baby to us. We nourish it, change it, tell funny anecdotes about it, and murmur gentle encouragements in its ear about the amazing lit mag issue it will someday become. And then, when the new arrival comes along, we crowd the older children into a …
Every other fall, the University of Cincinnati’s Department of English hosts an Emerging Writers Festival. The list this year features some names we know well! We printed Caitlyn Horrocks’s story “Embodied” in Issue 3.1; it was her first published story and later appeared in her collection This Is Not Your City (Sarabande, 2011). Her stories …
Here at the CR office, we’re usually focused on reading and discussing manuscripts, copy-editing and proofing, and plowing through the production process toward that shining goal: publication. But for once we thought it would be fun to give blog followers a deeper look at our small, hodgepodge community. We do more than argue over the …
Thanks to all of our amazing entrants in the 2012 Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in Poetry and Prose. We are delighted to announce that Emily Hipchen is the winner of the Poetry Prize for “Boy into Polished Concrete,” and Carey Cameron is the winner of the Prose Prize for “Thursday.” Cameron and Hipchen will …
Nance Van Winckel is a decorated poet and fiction writer with almost as many books as fingers, but in our upcoming issue she blends poetry with visual art to create what she calls “photoems.” Her breathtaking digital photo-collages draw from the traditions of urban landscape photography, collage, mural, and graffiti. Of her process, she says, …
Thanks to all those who yanked out their issues and methodically counted their way to the winning sentence: Well-behaved sharks eat Taco Bell for a rare and challenging treat. As I write this, sling-packs and thermoses are winging their way to you on the backs of our logo-emblazoned—and famously literate—homing pigeons. (Haven’t heard of CR’s …
For this month’s contest, associate editor Becky Adnot-Haynes took a cue from Glee (back when it used to be good) and created a mash-up of words and phrases from choice poems and stories in CR’s latest issue. And now we want you, readers, to get in on the fun: Take out your super-secret spy glasses, …
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