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Joyelle McSweeney on style, grief, and the necropastoral.

Danielle Dutton’s Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other is a collection of surreal stories full of haunted landscapes, literary experiments, and essays on the relationship between art and fiction. In this conversation, Mialise Carney and Danielle Dutton discuss the prairie as a site of dislocation, the process of collecting literary dresses, and how writing could be played …

After the tremendous buzz caused by the presence of Nick Lachey at last year’s CR booth, the Imagineers at The Cincinnati Review have been busy thinking up new ways to surprise and delight you at AWP Baltimore. To that end, we have some exciting events, attractions, and new swag planned:  An Evening of Flash Lit: …

Former CR editor and short story writer Christian Moody on his debut collection up for a PEN award

“Some writers are interested in character, some in place or plot, but I’m most interested in relationships.”

Alice McCormick, a writer and small animal veterinarian.

A book isn’t just words tossed into the ether. The choices made around how to contain those words matter, too. The artistic intent stretches beyond the ephemeral.

A flash story is the perfect size to enjoy with your morning cup of coffee—instead of, y’know, beginning the doomscroll that will carry you (read: me) through to lunchtime.

Contributor Natalie Villacorta teaches us how to use the act of letting go to make better writing.

Mialise Carney reviews Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou, a reimagining of Bluebeard stories