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, …
Do you remember when you were a kid and you’d tell your mother you were bored, and she would say, “Only boring people are bored,” and then lock you outside while it was snowing? To discover how strange/cold the world could truly be? If not, you probably had better childhoods than certain members of our …
When the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to award a prize in fiction last April, you were confused. Was this a bum year for the American imagination? An artistic recession for representing imaginary people with words? Had our writers, like our politicians and parents, let us down? But if you’d been reading with any diligence …
We hate to rethink our reading period, but we’re rethinking our reading period. UC has made the big ole confusing move from quarters to semesters, which means the mag’s ever-so-crucial grad staff and volunteer pool arrive earlier in the fall and depart earlier in the spring than in days of yore (which is how we …
Congratulations to our talented contributors, who keep racking up the laurels! Fellowship News Ari Banias (Issue 5.1) is the recipient of the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was awarded a work-study scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Sara Gelston (9.1) is the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow …
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