Editors’ Dispatches

It’s that wonderful time of year again! The Cincinnati Review will open our Submission Manager for all submissions on Sunday

We received seventeen boxes of literary greatness this week! Copies have been mailed out to contributors, and our mailing service will be sending them to subscribers soon. In the meantime, check out samples from the issue here on our site, and buy single issues (including $5 digital copies) in our online store.

As the school year winds down and we get ready to welcome our summer assistant editors, we also say goodbye to Caitlin Doyle and Molly Reid, who have been CR editors for two years now.

Associate Editor Molly Reid: It’s proofreading time here at The Cincinnati Review, which means we have our colored pencils out and our screens open to The Chicago Manual of Style. It also means we have a chance to do a deep read of the entire 16.1 issue. In addition to the joy of finding errors …

We’re pleased as punch to announce the tenure of our second guest literary nonfiction editor this year (Literary Nonfiction Editor Kristen Iversen was awarded a Taft Center Fellowship for the 2018–19 academic year and is on sabbatical). Starting this week, through mid-June, Lee Martin will read submitted essays and curate our literary nonfiction section for …

We’re getting close to the release of Issue 15.2, which should arrive from the printer in the next few weeks! In advance, we’re pleased to share the cover, with artwork by Emily Hanako Momohara: We also want to take this opportunity to explain a change in our editorial practices. Generally, we follow the industry Bible, …

It is with great pleasure that we introduce our new Guest Literary Nonfiction Editor Sonja Livingston. Sonja will be filling in for Literary Nonfiction Editor Kristen Iversen, who was awarded a Taft Center Fellowship for the 2018–2019 academic year and will be busy researching and writing several books. Sonja will read literary nonfiction from September 5, …

We’re open again for (free) submissions for the print journal and for our miCRo series! Read our guidelines here, and hit us with your best shot, as Pat Benatar would say. If you submitted between last September and March, the 2017–18 reading period, and haven’t heard back from us yet, the good news is that …

  It’s a banner day at The Cincinnati Review offices—not only do we get to come back to work after a long holiday weekend away, but our latest issue has arrived. Subscribers should see it in the mail soon, and we’re sending out digital subscriptions today too. Issue 15.1 is chock-full of literary goodness: our …