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Game of the Month: Guidance for Guidelines

We’re so excited about our new online submissions system that we can’t stop celebrating. Not with alcohol—that’s not our style—but with lots and lots of sugar. We’ve consumed rafts of Laffy Taffy, Bottle Caps, and those hard candies that resemble (sort of) strawberries, and we’ve taken to singing the Willy Wonka soundtrack and miming exaggerated …

A Note on a Notable Achievement

A Note on a Notable Achievement

We’re thrilled to spread the news that contributor Aaron Gilbreath’s “Dreams of the Atomic Era,” from our Summer 2010 issue, has just been listed as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2011. The piece explores his love for the Googie architecture of 1950s and ’60s coffee-shops and motels, including boomerang-shaped roofs and amoeba- and atom-motifs. …

“The Jesus Party”: Why We Like It

“The Jesus Party”: Why We Like It

We’re excited about our new issue, due out in January (a bit behind schedule, but we promise it’s worth the wait). We think you should be, too. To help you achieve maximum anticipatory excitement, Assistant Editor Becky Adnot-Haynes wrote a brief teaser for one of our forthcoming stories, Kate Finlinson’s “The Jesus Party.” Becky Adnot-Haynes: …

Contest Winners!

Well, after a long summer of careful reading and discussion, we are excited to announce the winners of the 2011 Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in Poetry and Prose! We had a goodly number of excellent submissions, so the winnowing process was tough. Many thanks to all who sent in poems, stories, and essays—and even …

Game of the Month: The Result

So the result of the game of the month was (inhale, hold) . . . we stumped you. Verily, it is an arduous test, so we blame you not. However, two intrepid souls ventured outside the box (or test square, if you will) and came up with, er, not answers exactly, but augmentations that we …

Online Submissions Open!

We here at Cincinnati Review are pleased to announce that online submissions are now officially open and fully operational! That’s right, baby. You know that story you wrote about the disillusioned single mom who learns to love again when a traveling magician pulls a quarter from her ear and the cloud of bitterness from her …

Burning to Blog?

Think you’re special? Well, the odds are in your favor. But are you special in an “I make tiny replicas of the buildings in my hometown out of  dry bread and Vaseline” kind of way? Or more in an “I own every flesh-colored M.U.S.C.L.E. Men figurine” kind of way. Remember M.U.S.C.L.E Men? From the 80s? …

Accomplished Contributors

Accomplished Contributors

A slew of good news for our talented contributors! Fellowship News: Ari Banias (5.1) has been awarded a fellowship in poetry to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Sarah Rose Nordgren (6.1) will be a second-year fellow. Laura Eve Engel (8.1) is the 2011-12 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the …

Game of the Month: Editing Test

Here at CR we have an arduous training process for our new volunteers. We ask them to perform feats of physical strength and stamina, like doing sprints with heavy stacks of the current issue on their heads and standing atop a teeny platform for a really, really long time (the latter we stole from Survivor, …

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