Assistant Editor Jess Jelsma Masterton: In a typical week at CR, I read through anywhere from twenty-five to forty submissions, from 500 word miCRos to 8000+word stories, novel excerpts, and essays. While my tastes run the gambit from lyric fabulist fiction to hyperrealism, there is one aspect guaranteed to pull me out of an otherwise …
Associate Editor Caitlin Doyle: Our first cowritten poem for the miCRo series hails from two authors who are no strangers to pairing up on the page. As part of the editorial team behind They Said, a recently released multigenre anthology of contemporary collaborative writing that’s creating a stir in the literary world, Simone Muench and …
Assistant Editor Jess Jelsma Masterton: As a genre, micro fiction attempts to do the impossible: establish a protagonist with a clear conflict, all within a tiny, less than 500-word frame. The author must find a way to show the reader what is physically or emotionally at stake. What is the protagonist’s central struggle? How …
We’re getting close to the release of Issue 15.2, which should arrive from the printer in the next few weeks! In advance, we’re pleased to share the cover, with artwork by Emily Hanako Momohara: We also want to take this opportunity to explain a change in our editorial practices. Generally, we follow the industry Bible, …
Associate Editor Molly Reid: This one-sentence story is not a gimmick, and it is not sorry. An honest, almost-cruel moment opens out into wonder and uncertainty. Read this one out loud and let it take your breath away—and then do yourself a favor, and listen to Sarah read it. To hear Sarah read the story, …
Associate Editor Caitlin Doyle: What better way to herald the change of seasons than with a miCRo double feature that simultaneously registers and resists time’s passage? In this week’s two micro nonfiction pieces, “My Husband’s Story from the War” and “Assisted Living,” Nance Van Winckel explores the human relationship to memory and invites us to …
Assistant Editor Jess Jelsma Masterton: When I read through submissions, the question I return to again and again is “What is this story’s occasion?” Well-crafted openings put forth an answer for why the story must start where it does. What has changed or is in the process of changing for the protagonist? In essence, …
Associate Editor Caitlin Doyle: Paul Haney’s innovative sonnet “Spoils” gestures toward the ecstatic tradition in English-language poetry while reveling without restraint in the excesses of contemporary life. Artfully blending an antiquated diction register with a profusion of colloquial phrases and brand names, Haney creates such an echo-rich sonic atmosphere that we’re helpless to resist joining …
Neil had volunteered to cook. Inez’s best friend, Beach, was coming in from the West Coast, and she felt he could use a home-cooked meal. Inez and Beach dated briefly in college, and while Neil hadn’t unriddled all the details of their breakup, the short of it was that they preferred each other’s company in …
In every issue of The Cincinnati Review, we include a fiction review feature, most often with three takes on the same novel. In issue 15.1, out this past May, Ally Glass-Katz, Drew Johnson, and Margaret Luongo wrote about Alissa Nutting’s Made for Love (Ecco, 2017). Late this summer, after they had a chance to read …
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