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 …
A few weeks ago on the blog, we featured an appreciation of Marie Kare’s short-shorts, a series called How to Celebrate National Days. As additional bonus content, in honor of National Dance Day (the final Saturday in July), here’s one more installment of the series: National Dance Day July 28, 2018 (Last Saturday in …
If you regularly enter our summer contest, you might be feeling bereft right now. Where are the Robert and Adele Schiff Award options on the CR’s online submission manager? How can I send you the poem, story, or essay that’s been burning a hole in my pocket—well, file folder? No fear: This summer, we’ve moved …
Assistant Editor Maggie Su: The excerpts from Marie Kare’s series How to Celebrate National Holidays: Instructions for Enjoying Pseudoholidays featured in CR Issue 15.1 offer absurd reimaginings of commercialized celebrations such as “National Pen Pal Day,” “National Gingerbread Day,” “National Higher Education Day,” “National Best Friends Day,” and “National Handshake Day.” Using imperatives in each …
It’s a banner day at The Cincinnati Review offices—not only do we get to come back to work after a long holiday weekend away, but our latest issue has arrived. Subscribers should see it in the mail soon, and we’re sending out digital subscriptions today too. Issue 15.1 is chock-full of literary goodness: our …
We expect Issue 15.1 to ship from the printer any day now! Local folks, we’d love to see you at the launch party on Friday, June 1, at Caza Sikes Gallery in Oakley; the event doubles as the gallery opening for an exhibit of new work by Dewey Blocksma, the featured artist in the …
We’ve heard a lot of good news lately, including that a poem from our miCRo series, “Iraq Good” by Hugh Martin, was chosen as a Pushcart Prize winner and will appear in The Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2019 edition! Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle said in her introduction of “Iraq Good” that …
Editorial Assistant Ankit Basnet: Over the years, I have grown fond of reading book-length poems. And the projects that always draw me in are, unsurprisingly, sonnet sequences, often favored by contemporary American poets experimenting with poetic forms. The sonnet never goes out of vogue because it stands the test of time. Its shape is so …
Whew—we did it: We converted the entire print run of The Cincinnati Review, including out-of-print classics like Issue 2.2 and Issue 13.2, to digital versions—both epub and PDF . Now that each issue of the CR exists as 1s and 0s, you can add them to your e-reading queue. In celebration, all 28 issues are …
Editorial Assistant Madeleine Wattenberg: I fell asleep halfway through reading Kim Kyung Ju’s I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World (Black Ocean, 2016) and dreamed that a neon pink cobra hid in my shoe and bit my big toe. I mention this both because it is not unlike what it feels like …
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