Editors’ Dispatches

We are thrilled to announce our incredible nominations for this year’s Best of the Net Anthology!

Here are some key takeaways from our audience survey earlier this month.

Jerald Walker will serve as our guest literary nonfiction editor for the 2022–23 academic year!

We’re accepting (free) print-mag literary nonfiction submissions now through March 7!

We’re changing our submission period to the months of September, December, and May, but also adding a cap to submissions for each month. Click through for the full explanation!

We’ve talked before about reading during the pandemic , but writing during this real-life Groundhog Day has presented its own challenges.

In the spirit of the season, we here at CR thought it might be nice (and cathartic) to pause, take a deep breath, and reflect on some of the best writing advice we are thankful to have received.

Our submission period for the print journal starts on September 1! But pay attention: it’ll end earlier, on January 1, 2021.

We wanted to introduce or reintroduce ourselves to you here at the start of the year. Here are some good news and goings-on from our staff (we’re writers too!).

When The Cincinnati Review printed its first issue sixteen years ago, we included a list of prominent poets and writers who graciously agreed to be part of our advisory board. Among them: Eavan Boland, whom we join the rest of the literary world in remembering now, at the news of her death.