In our final installment of video clips from “The Engines of Fiction” panel last month at the 7th Annual Robert and Adele Schiff Fiction Festival, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho and Elizabeth McKenzie share their approaches to thinking about structure in fiction.
We won’t keep you in suspense any longer: In our third installment of excerpts from the “The Engines of Fiction” panel at the 7th Robert and Adele Schiff Fiction Festival (held in April at the University of Cincinnati), we hear from fiction writers Jung Yun, Elizabeth McKenzie, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, and Catherine Lacey about the concept …
In the second installment of our video clips from the 7th Robert and Adele Schiff Fiction Festival (held at the University of Cincinnati in April), Jung Yun and Antonio Ruiz-Camacho discuss their approaches to tone.
A few weeks ago, the University of Cincinnati sponsored the 7th annual Robert and Adele Schiff Fiction Festival. Even if you weren’t able to join us in person, you can experience the insights of the authors: Over the next two weeks, we’ll post a few excerpts from the panel on “The Engines of Fiction.” Here, …
We’re happy to announce that our sister press, Acre Books, has its first title, A Very Angry Baby, now available for purchase on their website, in print or e-book forms! If you pick one up this week, you’ll get free shipping—sorry, no pacifiers or swaddling blankets included. This fabulous anthology, full of previously unpublished pieces, …
As a slight change of pace from our usual “What We’re Reading” posts, CR volunteer Ben Kleier has chosen to discuss Lana Shuttleworth’s unique artwork, which we’re very excited to have in issue 14.1. Ben is a student in the UC master’s program in professional writing and has been working at the Cincinnati Art Museum …
When I first got an email from Barnes & Noble a few months ago announcing a new book from Joan Didion, I thought this was too good to be true. New work? From Didion, someone who I’ve described as my spirit animal? I was sold instantly, preordering a copy before I had a chance to …
by Jose Angel Araguz In “Rummage,” midway through CR contributor Jennifer Givhan’s Landscape with Headless Mama (Pleiades Press), the reader is presented a scene of a yard sale; the opening image of a wedding dress as “a white tumble / alongside registry gifts rattling our tarpaulined front porch” sets the tone. As the speaker details …
by José Angel Araguz For this third and final interview featuring #poetsofinstagram, John Carroll of @makeblackoutpoetry shares with us a few poems as well as insights into the craft and style of his poetry on Instagram. I was drawn to the work of @makeblackoutpoetry for its clear focus on hope. Each of the examples displays a keen …
This latest “What We’re Reading” post comes from volunteer Hannah Haney, a first-year masters student in Literary and Cultural Studies here at UC. When not reading through submissions and making insightful comments, Hannah likes to read good books, eat good food, and write bad poetry. She is also the Managing Editor of Relief Journal. We’re …
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