miCRo: “Bespoke” by Mee-ok
In vivid, tumbling language, this essay asks us to consider new angles—what it means to look up, to be looked down at, to navigate a world built for someone else’s eye level.
Cincinnati Review
Announcing Our 2020 Contest Winners!
Announcing the winners of the Twelfth Annual Robert and Adele Schiff Awards!
Trends and Tips: On Deepening Settings
Setting isn’t just a stage upon which our characters walk; it is part of the bones of the story itself.
The Orison Anthology and Best of the Net Nominations
We’re so excited to announce our nominations for this year’s Orison and Best of the Net Anthologies!
On Craft: Notes on a Failure Poetics
“I’m not going to talk about ways to succeed in poetry—not how to craft a perfect line or please your reader or even excite the staff at a literary journal. Instead, I’m going to briefly talk about a poetics of failure.”
Trends and Tips: Who’s On First?
The beauty of first-person narration lies in its complexity.