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 …
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 …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: This story opens with teen girls being teen girls together. The added twist? The mother of one girl is a real-life witch, with tarot cards and all. Mead-Brewer has crafted well-wrought scenes in which the teens try to scare each other, but there’s a turn late in the piece to …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: The opening of this prose poem dazzles with description of scene, a super Mercado on Saturday night; I think of Allen Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California”: “Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!” Kathy Z. Price’s poem moves with the same energy, thought after cascading thought separated only by …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: This hybrid, elliptical piece draws from the language of fairy tales to illuminate the experience of adolescence (perhaps; in part), as one character is “a little girl on some days and a young woman on others.” With references to violence and the body—as well as an allusion to the environment in …
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