Cincinnati Review

Relative Clauses Revealed

We’ve got grammar on our ganglia as we painstakingly copy-edit our summer number in the hope of getting it to the typesetter by week’s end. Twice a year, as we peer at the sentences and lines that make up each two-hundred-plus-page issue, we encounter many of the same across-the-board errors. We all have different responses …

Peteroy’s Irrelevant Questions for Relevant Writers

Peteroy’s Irrelevant Questions for Relevant Writers

Yes, blog readers, it’s yet another installment of the peculiar probings of Don Peteroy—a CR-hosted series in which the ever-provocative DP pitches profoundly preposterous questions at hand-picked prosists. This week’s featured writer is one of our own—Margaret Luongo—who has made three appearances in our pages, and who was last seen wearing a blaze-yellow babydoll tee …

“Theory of must”: Why We Like It

Devoted blog readers: don’t forget that the Blue Pencil Prize is up for grabs! The next four readers who find mistakes we missed during our multilevel proofreading process win the coveted blue Col-Erase pencil as well as their choice of a free issue, thermos, or sling pack. You know you want to make beautiful beryl …

The Blue Pencil Prize

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears go into the copy-editing and proofreading of each issue of CR (and mustard . . . we blame associate editor Matt McBride for the mustard stain on our copy of The Chicago Manual of Style). And now that our newest issue is officially available, we want you, readers, …

The Good News Continues

February is beginning well for The Cincinnati Review. Our new issue is out in the mail, the AWP conference is on the horizon, and it’s 57 degrees today. Who cares if Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow? His prediction is fixed by the mysterious Inner Circle, after all, and trees are beginning to bud already. Another …

The SR Connection

The SR Connection

One comforting thing about working for a pittance in an undervalued field at a besieged bastion of higher learning is that we’re not alone. In fact, we are legion (if the AWP registration figure is any indication), which means that even though we may never attain fortune or fame by any worldly standard, we do …

At Long Last: The Arrival of Issue 8.2!

At Long Last: The Arrival of Issue 8.2!

We’re thrilled to announce our latest arrival: Issue 8.2! Although slightly overdue, this edition of the Cincinnati Review is chock-full of good literature and art; the extra gestation time was worth it. Though we can’t throw a cigar in with the journal (media mail regulations and all), it’s headed out to you via the United …

Collaborative Feature—Soapbox and CR!

Collaborative Feature—Soapbox and CR!

We’re trying something new and different—a collaboration with the amazing online magazine Soapbox. Soapbox tells the new Cincinnati story—a narrative of creative people and businesses, new development, cool places to live, and the best places to work and play. And each month, Cincinnati Review will contribute some of the best lit—poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—in the country. The …

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