The Cincinnati Review is pleased to announce that Chris Bachelder, author of Bear vs. Shark (Scribner, 2002), U.S.! (Bloomsbury, 2006), and Abbott Awaits (Yellow Shoe Fiction, 2011) will be joining the University of Cincinnati’s faculty next year. Chris has been a regular contributor to CR, with stories in issues 3.1 and 6.1. Welcome, Chris!
This week’s “Why We Like It” feature is a double whammy. It’s written by Becky Adnot, a long-time volunteer who is soon to join our staff (fall 2011); so this is also a “Why We Like Her” feature. For one thing, Becky has read submissions going on three years now—purely for the love of it. …
For this month’s game, we’re going to test the fiction wonks among you. Correctly match the CR contributors below to the excerpts that follow—and choose your prize (slingpack, thermos, or issue of your choice). May the best wonk win! 1. Steve Almond 2. Aimee Bender 3. Judy Budnitz 4. George Singleton 5. Kevin Wilson a. Our mothers saw that …
Heather Hamilton: I’m currently rereading Paula Bohince’s Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods, a poetry collection that doubles as a murder mystery, though to file it under any one term would be reductive. In fact, Incident is a complex and breathtaking book, pulling double duty on multiple fronts: at once rooted in a specific terror and speaking …
While we always receive a lot of varied, high-quality work here at CR, we do, on occasion, notice trends in our submissions. Here are two of the latest. Elaborate presentation: Recently we’ve received a number of spiral-bound submissions. We’ve received submissions on watermarked, stationery-grade stock, on parchment, and on glossy paper with accompanying photographs. We’ve also received quite a few in …
On a particularly frigid Wednesday of last month, volunteer Brandon Whiting appeared for his office hours in nothing but an elaborate feather jumpsuit. This was not unusual in itself—feather suits are actually required office wear—so we didn’t think much of it. And when he began touting the benefits of an “all-marsh” diet, we figured he …
McMicken Hall! Our snug office is in the cupola. (We also report on the weather and traffic patterns for Channel 9.)
Welcome to the CR blog’s new series, What We’re Reading. Since our staff is composed of such wonderfully erudite—yes, we said erudite—individuals, we decided to create a feature where members of our small yet mighty work force jot a few lines about what they they’re currently reading as a kind of “employees’ picks” of the …
This just in from our poetry editor Don Bogen, who is on a Fulbright in Belfast. We miss you, Don! Don Bogen: I’ve been getting a handle on the local accent. According to a linguist in the department here at Queen’s, the story goes that a wild black pig stuck its snout into the earth …
To everyone who played our game of the month: Thanks for the rejection! (We never thought we’d say that). Your fake rejections made at least four editors laugh coffee out of their noses, and for that reason alone we accept you all. However, we are literary magazine editors, with all the dragon scales, icy hearts, …
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