Our own Lisa Ampleman has won the latest Wick Chapbook Award for her manuscript I’ve Been Collecting This to Tell You. The judge was poet and professor Maggie Anderson, and the book will be out in spring of 2012. Three cheers for Lisa! (Assistant Editor Matt McBride is a previous Wick winner.)
Michael, our fiction editor, talked five smart writers—Alexander Chee, John McNally, Keith Lee Morris, Leah Stewart, and Justin Tussing—into reassessing the 1961 National Book Award for fiction. There’s no medal or cash prize to hand out, but we have a winner. To find out which book won, and to read our judges’ essays on the …
Dave Nielsen is a new volunteer here at CR, and as a reward for reading the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style cover to cover—a task he completed in a mere 21 hours—we gave him a back issue and some old electrodes we had lying around. When Dave returned the following week for …
We got the call yesterday. Christopher Merkner’s “Last Cottage” (vol. 7, no. 1) has been selected to appear in the upcoming Best American Mystery Stories anthology. Yay! For some insight into the story’s utter awesomeness, see Suzanne Warren’s January 12th Why We Like It post.
This year, at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Washington, D.C., Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter will be offering a combined subscription to all three journals for only $33. That’s right, at AWP and only at AWP you can get your mitts on the Midwest’s most precious resource (not counting soybeans and corn) …
Once a day or so, at least one of us here in the office will suddenly jerk awake, lift her head off her desk and—with a long string of drool still attached to a submitted manuscript—speak a line or two from a story or poem before clunking her head back to the desk again. Then …
If you’ll be at AWP in DC, or even if you don’t know what that is but you’re within a two-week headlong sprint of Dupont Circle, then you should join the Monster Mags of the Midwest—Ninth Letter, Mid-American Review, and Cincinnati Review—for a fearsome night of reading, Heartland-style, with plenty of poetry, fiction, and beer …
We’re obviously big fans of Edith Pearlman—her story “Life Lessons” is coming out in our fall/winter issue (8.2), and you can read her stories in several CR back issues too. So we’re happy to see that her new collection, Binocular Vision, has garnered Sunday book reviews from both the NY Times and the LA Times. Check …
When one of us finds a poem or story in our pages that we especially like, it’s common for us to adopt the voice of that piece for the rest of the day. On any given week in the office, you might hear us conducting staff meetings in the omniscient past, or addressing the fax …
Well, the tinsel is in the attic, the fruitcake has been taken to the proper recycling facilities, and we’ve sworn off eggnog forever. But we’re still in the gift-giving mood! So we offer the following quiz to test your poetry knowledge and general CR street cred. Included below is a list of some of our …
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