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Bonus Material: Phillips, Allen, Hadaway

Bonus Material: Phillips, Allen, Hadaway

We’re busy proofreading our next issue (8.1), and we can hardly wait until it’s ready—keep an eye out for it in May. Click on “issues” in the pull-down menu above to see the cover and a list of contributors. Here’s a geeky proofreading factoid: Did you know that the Chicago Manual of Style changed the …

Welcome, Chris Bachelder!

Welcome, Chris Bachelder!

The Cincinnati Review is pleased to announce that Chris Bachelder, author of Bear vs. Shark (Scribner, 2002), U.S.! (Bloomsbury, 2006), and Abbott Awaits (Yellow Shoe Fiction, 2011) will be joining the University of Cincinnati’s faculty next year. Chris has been a regular contributor to CR, with stories in issues 3.1 and 6.1. Welcome, Chris!

“Myths of the Body”: Why We Like It

This week’s “Why We Like It” feature is a double whammy. It’s written by Becky Adnot, a long-time volunteer who is soon to join our staff (fall 2011); so this is also a “Why We Like Her” feature. For one thing, Becky has read submissions going on three years now—purely for the love of it. …

Dispatches from Belfast

This just in from our esteemed poetry editor and migrant worker (weirdly, that is how Ireland views Don while he’s on fellowship in Belfast). Don Bogen: A word about money. There are seven kinds of banknotes accepted as legal tender here in Northern Ireland:  those from the Bank of England, which (no surprise) have the …

Fiction Game of the Month

Fiction Game of the Month

For this month’s game, we’re going to test the fiction wonks among you. Correctly match the CR contributors below to the excerpts that follow—and choose your prize (slingpack, thermos, or issue of your choice). May the best wonk win! 1. Steve Almond 2. Aimee Bender 3. Judy Budnitz 4. George Singleton 5. Kevin Wilson a. Our mothers saw that …

What We’re Reading

What We’re Reading

Heather Hamilton: I’m currently rereading Paula Bohince’s Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods, a poetry collection that doubles as a murder mystery, though to file it under any one term would be reductive. In fact, Incident is a complex and breathtaking book, pulling double duty on multiple fronts: at once rooted in a specific terror and speaking …

Submission Trends and Tips

Submission Trends and Tips

While we always receive a lot of varied, high-quality work here at CR, we do, on occasion, notice trends in our submissions. Here are two of the latest. Elaborate presentation: Recently we’ve received a number of  spiral-bound submissions. We’ve received submissions on watermarked, stationery-grade stock, on parchment, and on glossy paper with accompanying photographs. We’ve also received quite a few in …

“Heron”: Why We Like It

On a particularly frigid Wednesday of last month, volunteer Brandon Whiting appeared for his office hours in nothing but an elaborate feather jumpsuit. This was not unusual in itself—feather suits are actually required office wear—so we didn’t think much of it. And when he began touting the benefits of an “all-marsh” diet, we figured he …

What We’re Reading

What We’re Reading

Welcome to the CR blog’s new series, What We’re Reading. Since our staff is composed of such wonderfully erudite—yes, we said erudite—individuals, we decided to create a feature where members of our small yet mighty work force jot a few lines about what they they’re currently reading as a kind of “employees’ picks” of the …

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