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 …
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 …
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 …
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