So the result of the game of the month was (inhale, hold) . . . we stumped you. Verily, it is an arduous test, so we blame you not. However, two intrepid souls ventured outside the box (or test square, if you will) and came up with, er, not answers exactly, but augmentations that we …
We here at Cincinnati Review are pleased to announce that online submissions are now officially open and fully operational! That’s right, baby. You know that story you wrote about the disillusioned single mom who learns to love again when a traveling magician pulls a quarter from her ear and the cloud of bitterness from her …
Think you’re special? Well, the odds are in your favor. But are you special in an “I make tiny replicas of the buildings in my hometown out of dry bread and Vaseline” kind of way? Or more in an “I own every flesh-colored M.U.S.C.L.E. Men figurine” kind of way. Remember M.U.S.C.L.E Men? From the 80s? …
A slew of good news for our talented contributors! Fellowship News: Ari Banias (5.1) has been awarded a fellowship in poetry to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Sarah Rose Nordgren (6.1) will be a second-year fellow. Laura Eve Engel (8.1) is the 2011-12 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the …
Here at CR we have an arduous training process for our new volunteers. We ask them to perform feats of physical strength and stamina, like doing sprints with heavy stacks of the current issue on their heads and standing atop a teeny platform for a really, really long time (the latter we stole from Survivor, …
A few months ago, CR staff member Don Peteroy announced he was going to conduct an interviewing experiment. His idea was to contact writers he admires (he is an intrepid, yea tireless, journal reader) and ask them each an absurd (yea, downright ridiculous) question—a question designed to throw said writer off balance and elicit an …
In their waxing and waning, seasons are like radio signals, and as we climbed toward our McMicken Hall office this morning, the forty-nine-degree air was a cold static on our naked forearms, calves, and flip-floppeted feet. People smug in their jeans and windbreakers were giving us impertinent looks. Once inside, we ransacked the CR’s desk …
Get ready, ’cause we’re gearing up for a second installment of Monster Mags of the Midwest at this year’s AWP conference in Chicago. That’s right. Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter are once again teaming up to deliver what will be, in all likelihood, the most awesomely monstrous reading ever. Because if there’s one …
Poetry editor Don Bogen, who has been off fellowshipping at the Heaney Centre in Belfast for what seems (to our lonesome staff) a great age, is soon to fly back to us. Appropriate, then, that his last across-the-pond post takes, as its topic, birds. Don Bogen: A word about birds. They seem especially noticeable here, …
Kudos to the amazing profs and students who make our grad program in writing excelente. Poets & Writers magazine has ranked UC’s PhD in creative writing #8 in the country!
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