Give Us Five (perhaps in person)
An embarrassment of riches! We learned last week that a fifth poem from our pages will appear in...
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Submission Trends and Tips
One trend we’ve noticed here at CR is how many pieces we receive that are set in foreign...
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Two More Winners!
Results of the Blue Pencil Prize: Laura Somerville, eagle-eye extraordinaire, has won yet another...
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Mardi Gras, Teenage Princesses, and Chapbooks
At our weekly staff meeting on Wednesday, we talked proofreading and typesetting, but we also...
Read MoreThe Blue Pencil Prize: There’s Still Time!
Friends and readers: Nurse your chocolate hangover by having some editorial fun! Show off your proofreading skills by entering our Blue Pencil Prize contest here by this Friday, February 17. We’ve already got one winner,...
Read MoreRelative 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...
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Peteroy’s Irrelevant Questions for Relevant Writers
Yes, blog readers, it’s yet another installment of the peculiar probings of Don...
Read More“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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
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