Editorial Assistant Afsheen Farhadi: In issue 15.2‘s “Gil Butsen Ford,” Steve Amick dramatizes the logic of advertising—the promise to deliver happiness as balm for the consumer’s deepest pain. This is found in the language of advertisements, which often use words like love, kindness, family, words out of place, too weighty and meaningful for the exchange …
As the days get shorter and the weather gloomier, we’re staying upbeat with cute animal photos and copious amounts of caffeine, and by reading through our past issues to select nominations for the 2020 Pushcart Prize anthology and for Best Microfiction 2018. The final decisions weren’t easy. We’ve published so many amazing voices over …
Issue 15.2 has arrived in our offices! We’ll be mailing it out to contributors this week, and subscribers will see a nice shrink-wrapped package in their mailboxes sometime soon too. In honor of its release, we’d like to share a special feature: an appreciation of the play included in the issue: The Strangers, by christopher …
Just in time for the National Book Award ceremony tomorrow, we’d like to share an appreciation for one of the nominees in fiction. Editorial Assistant Matt Morgenstern: It’s difficult to summarize Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend, published earlier this year by Riverhead (and nominated for this year’s National Book Award). Dwight Garner does a good job in the …
We’ve seen writers querying their followers on social media: Where should I send a story about X? A poem about Y? An essay in which I thread both Z and W together? Here’s a little how-to from our staff on how to find good magazines to send your work to. And in honor of one …
We’re ready to bark, howl, chatter, or yip the good news! Winners of the Tenth Annual Robert and Adele Schiff Awards in Poetry and Prose Tori Malcangio for her story “See What I Mean” (chosen by Michael Griffith) Maggie Millner for her poem “Cherry Valley” (chosen by Rebecca Lindenberg) Thank you …
New from our YouTube series: How to Write a Cover Letter, including what not to include:
Assistant Editor Jess Jelsma Masterton: In a typical week at CR, I read through anywhere from twenty-five to forty submissions, from 500 word miCRos to 8000+word stories, novel excerpts, and essays. While my tastes run the gambit from lyric fabulist fiction to hyperrealism, there is one aspect guaranteed to pull me out of an otherwise …
We’re getting close to the release of Issue 15.2, which should arrive from the printer in the next few weeks! In advance, we’re pleased to share the cover, with artwork by Emily Hanako Momohara: We also want to take this opportunity to explain a change in our editorial practices. Generally, we follow the industry Bible, …
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 …
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