While we were busy collating proofs for our upcoming issue, many of you were busy composing fabulous entries for our Premise Wars. The winner? All of you. We liked your ideas so much, in fact, that we’re sorry we didn’t think of it first: a Pulitzer Prize–winning marathon runner who comes back as a mummy …
We’re collating proofs—which have been read and marked up by members of our staff (pictured), the poetry and fiction editors, and our awesome contributors. It’s an intense, two-day process, interrupted by order-out pizza and runs to Starbucks. Captured here, a moment of levity.
Congratulations to members of the Cincinnati Review family on their recent literary success: Editorial Assistant Katherine Zlabek won an AWP Intro Journals Award for her story “Hunting the Rut.” Her story will appear in Artful Dodge next year. Zlabek’s stories have also appeared in Madison Review, JMWW, Oxford Magazine, SAGA, The Rectangle, and the anthology …
This week, we’re meeting to finish our proofreading, a multi-step process involving the authors, managing editor, poetry and fiction editors, and assistant/associate editors. Each of us gets out our loupe and a brightly-colored pencil, and we pore through 200+ pages of the journal, noting things that would embarrass us if they made it into print …
Here at the CR office we read a lot of submissions. And we like doing it—and even though we can’t take every piece that strikes our fancy, every week we take note of a well-drawn scene, a lovely line, or a pleasingly complex character. Sometimes we let you in on trends we see in the …
CR’s own prodigal editor, Don Bogen (who also goes by the monikers “The Bogues,” “Bogedy,” and “Dr. Bojangles” ) was in San Francisco last Monday for the CR reading at the Stable Cafe. Here’s Don’s account of the event: By sheer coincidence, I had a chance to attend the first Greetings from Cincinnati Review reading …
Here at the CR office we come across a lot of different kinds of volunteers. There was one volunteer who earned a perfect score on his copy-editing test but who came in dead last in our goetta-eating competition (we like to celebrate Cincinnati’s German heritage); another ran screaming when we asked her to feed Pete, …
Lisa Ampleman: It’s hard to describe The Riots (University of Georgia Press, 2011), by Danielle Deulen (a new professor at UC this year), in terms that haven’t already been used. I want to say that the essays are beautifully lyrical, but the Great Lakes Colleges Association emphasized that quality when they awarded the collection the …
Our contributor Nick Johnson was generous enough to set up a reading for our latest issue that will feature fellow 8.2 contributors Rebekah Bloyd and Dan Bellm. This is going to be the biggest thing to hit San Francisco since the Dirty Harry movies. If you live within a 300-mile radius of San Francisco and …
This year, we’re doing it big: Our annual Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in Poetry and Prose will now include an honorarium of $1000. One winning poem and prose piece (fiction or creative nonfiction) will be chosen for publication in our 2013 prize issue. The entry fee of $25 includes a year-long subscription. Submissions will …
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