We’re jumping for joy at recent recognitions of work from our pages! One piece will appear in an anthology, another was a finalist, and still others were nominated for consideration: Sonja Livingston’s marvelous essay from issue 14.2, “Miracle of the Eyes,” about mysterious happenings with statues of Mary in Ireland in 1985, was selected for …
Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: In Bruce Johnson’s unsettling and Kafkaesque flash-fiction piece “The Slabs,” we enter a world that brings to mind the 1960s television series The Twilight Zone and the more recent Netflix series Black Mirror, wildly popular shows that invite viewers to navigate the line between the quotidian and the strange. Johnson asks …
Associate Editor Caitlin Doyle: In “Summer Dawn, Summer Nightgown,” Brendan Galvin invites us to glimpse a burgeoning romance between two people who have found each other during their later years (“at our age as intricately twined as though / we are life’s final gift to each other”). Galvin moves between emotional revelation and artful restraint …
Associate Editor James Ellenberger: It’s rather incredible how dense and interesting a relationship Zambrano explores in such a short space. Part of that, I think, lies in the author’s ability to plant details in way that feels simultaneously cyclical and progressive, much in a way that a villanelle’s repetitions build and build as the …
The time has come when word-lovers of all varieties flock to the annual Association of Writers & Writing Program Conference. We relish meeting our readers, contributors, submitters, and subscribers at AWP each year, and we’re as galvanized as ever to make our way to Tampa in just a few days. Here’s what we’ll be up …
Here at The Cincinnati Review, we’re approaching the end of our submission period, so we’re eager to share a final reminder with you. The deadline by which you can submit work for the journal is today: Thursday, March 1 (by 11:59 Eastern time). Time is running out, and we’re itching to get our hands on …
We’re looking forward to this event on Thursday at 7:30! CR contributor Marcus Wicker will be reading poems and giving a lecture about “Poetry as Protest and Social Activism.” Join us at the Mercantile Library, a beautiful library on the 11th floor of 414 Walnut in downtown Cincinnati. Two poems of Wicker’s, “Tiki Torch Cookout …
Associate Editor James Ellenberger: I love hitchhiking scenes in poems and stories. There’s something marvelously dramatic about two strangers putting their trust in each other, if even only for the next fifty miles. Here, matter-of-fact narration (“The woman climbed in”) is met with the phantasmagoric transformation that closes the piece. Of all of the …
Assistant Editor Molly Reid: As a lover of flash fiction, I was elated to start my first year with the Cincinnati Review just as it was rolling out miCRo, the magazine’s online short-form feature. In six months, we’ve published 18 stellar pieces of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid work. Our guidelines are fairly open: “For …
Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: It’s a joy to present the first double feature in our miCRo series, a pair of interrelated flash essays, “The Rape of Europa” and “Incensing the Veil,” by Lesley Jenike. In these sharp-eyed and stirring pieces, we’re prompted to view art as a dance of veils, a titillating push-and-pull between obfuscation …
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