If the poet John Keats worked in the CR office, he might have swapped his description of autumn (“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”) for a more au courant depiction of fall life in the lit mag world – Season of pumpkin libations… and shining nominations! We’re pleased to share the news that we’ve nominated …
Associate Editor Molly Reid: To my deep shame, I don’t read enough poetry. As a fiction writer, I tend to get impatient with books of poetry—where is the story? I want to feel something. But I recently picked up Rajiv Mohabir’s The Taxidermist’s Cut, and I couldn’t stop reading. The poems in this book …
It is with great pleasure that we introduce our new Guest Literary Nonfiction Editor Sonja Livingston. Sonja will be filling in for Literary Nonfiction Editor Kristen Iversen, who was awarded a Taft Center Fellowship for the 2018–2019 academic year and will be busy researching and writing several books. Sonja will read literary nonfiction from September 5, …
We’re open again for (free) submissions for the print journal and for our miCRo series! Read our guidelines here, and hit us with your best shot, as Pat Benatar would say. If you submitted between last September and March, the 2017–18 reading period, and haven’t heard back from us yet, the good news is that …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: With a miCRo this diminutive, we’d like to keep our own words about it to a minimum. Suffice it to say that the Latinate title and austere form belie the depth of the message behind the poem, which is a reflection of this Anthropocene era and all that is rapidly …
We’re pushing back the deadline for our contest! You may now extend your Labors until 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, September 4. As you may know, one poem and one prose piece (fiction or literary nonfiction) will be chosen for publication in our 2019 prize issue, and the two winners will each receive $1,000. The entry …
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