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Thanks to all of our amazing entrants in the 2012 Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in Poetry and Prose. We are delighted to announce that Emily Hipchen is the winner of the Poetry Prize for “Boy into Polished Concrete,” and Carey Cameron is the winner of the Prose Prize for “Thursday.” Cameron and Hipchen will …

Nance Van Winckel is a decorated poet and fiction writer with almost as many books as fingers, but in our upcoming issue she blends poetry with visual art to create what she calls “photoems.” Her breathtaking digital photo-collages draw from the traditions of urban landscape photography, collage, mural, and graffiti. Of her process, she says, …

Thanks to all those who yanked out their issues and methodically counted their way to the winning sentence: Well-behaved sharks eat Taco Bell for a rare and challenging treat. As I write this, sling-packs and thermoses are winging their way to you on the backs of our logo-emblazoned—and famously literate—homing pigeons. (Haven’t heard of CR’s …

For this month’s contest, associate editor Becky Adnot-Haynes took a cue from Glee (back when it used to be good) and created a mash-up of words and phrases from choice poems and stories in CR’s latest issue. And now we want you, readers, to get in on the fun: Take out your super-secret spy glasses, …

Do you remember when you were a kid and you’d tell your mother you were bored, and she would say, “Only boring people are bored,” and then lock you outside while it was snowing? To discover how strange/cold the world could truly be? If not, you probably had better childhoods than certain members of our …

When the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to award a prize in fiction last April, you were confused. Was this a bum year for the American imagination? An artistic recession for representing imaginary people with words? Had our writers, like our politicians and parents, let us down? But if you’d been reading with any diligence …

We hate to rethink our reading period, but we’re rethinking our reading period. UC has made the big ole confusing move from quarters to semesters, which means the mag’s ever-so-crucial grad staff and volunteer pool arrive earlier in the fall and depart earlier in the spring than in days of yore (which is how we …

Congratulations to our talented contributors, who keep racking up the laurels! Fellowship News Ari Banias (Issue 5.1) is the recipient of the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was awarded a work-study scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Sara Gelston (9.1) is the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow …

Every year when the temperature outside begins to drop, the CR staff becomes giddy for all things fall. Matt O’Keefe positively giggles over the leaves crunching beneath his feet, and Lisa Ampleman and Nicola Mason nearly come to blows over the question of lattice-crusted versus crumb-topped apple pie. Becky Adnot-Haynes begins chucking a football at …

As at least 227 of you have already figured out, we’re open for business—the business of reading, that is. Send us your love letters, your manifestos, your toenail-clipping guides, all those narratives and nonce sonnets yearning for life on the published page. We’re ready to receive your words. You can access our ever-so-easy-to-use online submission …