Cincinnati Review

Contributor Chase Twichell to Receive Kingsley Tufts Award

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 21, 2011 | Literary News, Uncategorized

Great news: Contributor Chase Twichell, whose poem “Raw Umber” appears in issue 6.2,...

“Landscape of the Young”: Why We Like It

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 18, 2011 | Uncategorized, Why We Like It

When not in the office, Assistant Editor Matt McBride retreats to the caves of nearby Kentucky, where he renounces the material world and lives on a strict diet of hickory nuts and wild honey. We don’t talk about it much,...

Game of the Month

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 15, 2011 | Games, Games, Contests, & Diversions, Uncategorized

REJECT REJECTION! Attribute it to post-AWP punchiness, but for this month’s contest, we’re going to try something a little risky. At the mag, we’re all writers too, which is to say we’ve all been...

“The Color Master”: Why We Like It

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 11, 2011 | Why We Like It

Here at CR we’ll occasionally “lose” a volunteer. We do our best to ensure that these incidents occur infrequently, but when you have a staff directly exposed to as much incomprehensibly good literature as we do, someone is...

Too Much Success?

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 8, 2011 | Uncategorized

Dear blog readers, Though one member of our ragtag staff is still stranded in Atlanta, the rest of us made it back from AWP bleary-eyed but buoyant. We were contemplating a blog post that would convey our pell-mell,...

Dispatches from Belfast

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 2, 2011 | Uncategorized

As many of you know, poetry editor Don Bogen won the Fulbright-Queen’s University Belfast Creative Writing Scholar Award (the only Fulbright Award in creative writing). In mid-January he hopped the pond and is now settling into...

Staff News

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 1, 2011 | Literary News

Our own Lisa Ampleman has won the latest Wick Chapbook Award for her manuscript I’ve Been...

A New Winner of the 1961 National Book Award: Special Review Feature

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Jan 31, 2011 | Features, From our Contributors, Literary News

Michael, our fiction editor, talked five smart writers—Alexander Chee, John McNally, Keith Lee...

“Raw Umber”: Why We Like It

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Jan 28, 2011 | Why We Like It

Dave Nielsen is a new volunteer here at CR, and as a reward for reading the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style cover to cover—a task he completed in a mere 21 hours—we gave him a back issue and some old...