Every year when the temperature outside begins to drop, the CR staff becomes giddy for all things fall. Matt O’Keefe positively giggles over the leaves crunching beneath his feet, and Lisa Ampleman and Nicola Mason nearly come to blows over the question of lattice-crusted versus crumb-topped apple pie. Becky Adnot-Haynes begins chucking a football at …
As at least 227 of you have already figured out, we’re open for business—the business of reading, that is. Send us your love letters, your manifestos, your toenail-clipping guides, all those narratives and nonce sonnets yearning for life on the published page. We’re ready to receive your words. You can access our ever-so-easy-to-use online submission …
Associate Editor Lisa Ampleman just returned from 10 days in beautiful Vermont at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference (average high in August: 78. Cincy’s average high? 86. When we’re lucky). Though she brought back the standard-issue Bread Loaf cold, we welcomed her coughing, sneezy presence–as long as she uses hand sanitizer before passing us any …
When we held our annual Feats of Physiques award ceremony just before summer break, volunteer Julia Velasco raked in a slew of medals—a CR version of the Olympic kind, only ours were fashioned out of office supplies and shipping tape. Anyway, Julia walked away with at least a pound of paperclips, staplers, and Media Mail …
Nicola Mason: The new term has begun, and 369 McMicken Hall once again resounds with the ticking of keyboards, the shir of sheets of paper, the squeal of the ancient laser printer, and talk of books read, exams taken, conferences attended. In other words, the staff has returned. We will start training a new group …
Don Bogen: The second Greetings from Cincinnati Review reading—at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle—was a grand success. Thanks to our fabulous contributors in the Pacific Northwest (especially Carolyne Wright, Martha Silano, and Jeannine Hall-Gailey who did the legwork) a standing-room-only crowd was on hand to hear seven—count ’em, seven—poets on Wednesday, August 1st. I …
For those who happen to find themselves in the Pacific Northwest next week, contributors in that part of the world have put together the second Greetings from Cincinnati Review reading, set for Wednesday, August 1, at 7:00 at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle.
Hear Ye, Hear Ye For those aiming to enter our summer contest, the clock is hereby ticking. You must submit your poetry or prose by Tuesday, July 31 (one week away), for us to consider the goods. This year, you can send your fine lines by snail mail (including a $25 check that covers reading …
Volunteer extraordinaire Don Peteroy has won the Playboy Fiction Prize! Pick up the issue in November. Note: it’s out a mere month following the publication of Don’s first book. To get a sense of Don’s amazingness, check out his occasional features on our blog: Peteroy’s Irrelevant Questions for Relevant Writers.
We interrupt our summer blog silence (due to skeleton crew helming the mag through the sweaty months) to announce an extraordinary event in . . . Seattle. Reading at the Hugo House on Wednesday, August 1, at 7 p.m. are seven of Cincinnati Review‘s delightful, not to mention esteemed, poetry contributors—all to be introduced by …
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