Here at The Cincinnati Review, we’re approaching the end of our submission period, so we’re eager to share a final reminder with you. The deadline by which you can submit work for the journal is today: Thursday, March 1 (by 11:59 Eastern time). Time is running out, and we’re itching to get our hands on …
With great jubilation, we’d like to introduce our new drama editor—the very first for The Cincinnati Review—Brant Russell, as well as our new venture, publishing plays-in-progress. With help from the Helen Weinberger Center for the Study of Drama and Playwriting, we’re expanding what the CR publishes to include four genres. Brant knows his stuff: He’s …
Today is a big day at The Cincinnati Review! We are blowing our bugles, banging our drums, and summoning our in-house bards to spread the news: Our new Poetry Editor Rebecca Lindenberg has started her tenure at the journal, and we couldn’t be more jubilant to introduce her to our readers. Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman …
It is with complicated emotions that we announce that Don Bogen will be stepping down as poetry editor of the magazine. Don has served The Cincinnati Review for just over thirteen years. During that time, he has worked with grace, intelligence, and precise vision in choosing and shaping the poetry in our magazine’s pages, poems …
Assistant Editor Molly Reid: Halloween is upon us. The time for pumpkin-carving, haunted houses, and candy. For young and old to dress up in costumes, try on other identities, inhabit the unknown, the sexy, the scary (or, sometimes, the downright terrible). It is also the time for that other Halloween favorite: the telling of ghost …
“I’d like to see The Cincinnati Review become one of the leading journals in the country to publish edgy, innovative, truly groundbreaking literary nonfiction.” These are the words of our Literary Nonfiction Editor Kristen Iversen, whose ambitious editorial mission guides our reading process here at The Cincinnati Review. We’ve been expanding our focus …
We just finished our first full proofread of our next issue (14.2, available in November). Here’s a sneak peek of the cover, which features a cropped version of Mary Jo Karimnia’s Delta Fair Sparklers: We’ve written in the past about our proofreading process—a quick summation for those not clicking through: Five staff members, three genre …
First, the announcement: The doors are open! Our Submission Manager is set once again for you to send us your submissions. As we noted in a blog post last week, we’ve altered our reading period to account for a backlog; we’ll now be accepting your stories, essays, and poems from September 1 through March …
We’ve got some good news and some bad news: Submissions to The Cincinnati Review are up, which is great. The staff is the same size, which is good. But our response times are slower, which is terrifically upsetting to everyone, especially us. Something’s gotta give. And we’ve decided to make that unlucky something . . …