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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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