Word has it that the new issue is on its way! We’re super excited—the cover, featuring Bill Wolff’s sculpture More, looks great, and we have a terrific group of poems, stories, and essays from a wide range of writers. We’ll be mailing it out in the coming days, but in the meantime we want to …
Yesterday, we at CR received a cover letter simply titled “cover letter.” Aside from this single sheet, there was nothing else in the envelope. The letter was not signed, nor was there a return address. After a puzzled moment, we realized it was a late, and brilliant, entry in our cover letter contest (that’s what …
We are delighted to announce that Jane Springer’s poem “Murder Ballad” (CR volume 6, number 2) has been selected to appear in Pushcart Prize XXXVI. Big congrats, Jane!
We’re so happy with the responses to our game of the month that we’ve decided to award prizes to everyone who contributed disturbing, gross, deeply frightening, sad, and all-around hilarious cover letters. Confession: We’re doing this in part to make room in our storage closet for the new issue—which should arrive next week! But we …
Though we read cover letters with interest here at CR, they don’t really play a part in our decision-making process. Cover letters are kind of like internal organs. You don’t think too much about them unless they’re bloated or causing you pain. Sometimes we’ll receive cover letters in which authors try to sell us on …
Our small, give-it-our-all staff is ecstatic about Every Writer’s Resource new ranking of US literary magazines. They have our humble publication as number 20, the second-youngest in the top 30 (after Tin House). Among university-affiliated magazines, CR would be number 11 (number 3 among journals whose schools grant creative writing PhDs). We’re honored to be …
It is time to embarrass our fiction editor, Michael: His new novel Trophy just garnered a starred review from Kirkus! We’ve always thought of Michael, the man, as “a quirky, imaginative, dazzling black comedy,” and much of the pleasure of having him around the office is due to his “word wizardry, his facile puns, his …
More good news for CR! Three stories from issue 6.1—Chris Bachelder’s “Lucky Abbott,” “Christie Hodgen’s “Bedtime Stories for the Middle-Aged,” and Brian Mooney’s “SPQR”—have been listed as “Special Mentions” in the 2011 Pushcart Prize anthology. Congratulations to Chris, Christie, and Brian!
It’s wonderful to have our offices here in the campus clock tower (a space we’re afforded because no one knows we’ve moved in), but the giant, moving machinery—wheels and pinions, swinging levers, spinning gears—could be considered a hazard of the job. One quickly learns how to duck, hop, and somersault with the rest of the …
Fiction Editor Michael Griffith: What I’m reading now? I realize I’m late to the party—Elmore Leonard calls it “the best crime novel ever written” and says it “makes The Maltese Falcon read like Nancy Drew,” and my fortieth-anniversary edition features an introduction by Dennis Lehane, who tabs it “the game-changing crime novel of the last …
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