CR staff member Dietrik Vanderhill is Dutch. Like, wore-wooden-shoes-to-hometown-parades-in-Iowa Dutch. Like, grew-up-in-a-house-his-father-built-himself Dutch. Like, every-angle-on-his-body-is-precisely-90-degrees Dutch. You could set your watch on the man’s chin were in not covered by a large, bushy beard the color of fall leaves. Last Monday, Dietrik came into our office in a state of severe agitation. He was struggling …
CR volunteer Brian Trapp is haunted. If you see him from a distance, you might think the noxious-looking cloud wafting behind him is indicative of a Pigpen-like stench, but really Brian smells okay (a bit like cashews, actually). The emanations trailing him like a comet’s gaseous tail are, in fact, [booming voice here] HIS DEMONS. …
WVXU generously interviewed our managing editor, Nicola Mason, for a segment that aired yesterday on Cincinnati Edition. For those of you who weren’t fully caffeinated and eagerly listening to public radio at 7 a.m. on a Sunday, here’s the link to WVXU’s mp3. Just scroll down to August 7 and click on The Cincinnati Review …
Check out this great article on Cincinnati’s literary landscape. Thank you, Soapbox!
More from our contributors on their work in our current issue—volume 8, number 1. We’re struck by how these three poets approach dailiness. Through lavish contemplation of common objects, events, or experiences, they enliven and enrich what often falls under our radar. Chad Sweeney: I’ve written a series of poems with place names for titles …
We just wanted to send a quick reminder that our Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in poetry and prose submission period will close at the end of this month. Aside from the honor of possibly winning a contest from a superior literary journal (one that was recently ranked in the nation’s top twenty we might …
It’s never too early to start thinking about—and planning for—AWP (the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference). At least, from our perspective. We had such a fantastic time last year teaming up with Mid-American Review and Ninth Letter that we’re repeating the pleasure, this time in Chicago. YES, there will be another three-for-one subscription …
In the interest of making space in our storage closet, and for the boost that beneficence brings, we are offering one free back issue (your choice) to anyone who emails me (Nicola) at editors@cincinnatireview.com by the end of the business day on Monday (July 18). If you are already a subscriber, you can offer your …
Trophy, the new novel by CR’s fiction ed., is garnering some great reviews. Yet Michael, a modest sort of fellow, can’t bring himself to promote it. Ben Dudley, one of Michael’s students, recently took him to task for this on Facebook. The exchange went thus: Ben: Are you aware that you’re not on YouTube? Who …
Little known fact: We regularly receive submissions from inmates. Oddly—and interestingly—they are never about prison life. We have not yet published any of these submissions, which often bear the marks of a struggle to communicate without adequate tools, physical and educational (sometimes they are handwritten; sometimes the sentences are either difficult to parse—i.e., confusing—or use …
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