Games

For this month’s contest, associate editor Becky Adnot-Haynes took a cue from Glee (back when it used to be good) and created a mash-up of words and phrases from choice poems and stories in CR’s latest issue. And now we want you, readers, to get in on the fun: Take out your super-secret spy glasses, …

While we were busy collating proofs for our upcoming issue, many of you were busy composing fabulous entries for our Premise Wars. The winner? All of you. We liked your ideas so much, in fact, that we’re sorry we didn’t think of it first: a Pulitzer Prize–winning marathon runner who comes back as a mummy …

Our Game of the Month was a popular one. A lot of you enjoy the grammar-based creativity of Mad Libs, and we were _____________ on the floor of the office as we read the entries. Snopes.com, Pomeranians, yodeling? All awesome. (Even better when we think about the Snopes.com debunking of the yodeling Pomeranian chain email.) …

We’re hard at work proofreading the new issue (due out in January!), but in between bursts of intense, disturb-me-not concentration, we’ve been enjoying the captions you all have proposed for the photo posted in our Game of the Month.  Laxatives, kegel exercises, mannequins: what more could we have asked for? We can determine whether “which” or “that” is …

We’re so excited about our new online submissions system that we can’t stop celebrating. Not with alcohol—that’s not our style—but with lots and lots of sugar. We’ve consumed rafts of Laffy Taffy, Bottle Caps, and those hard candies that resemble (sort of) strawberries, and we’ve taken to singing the Willy Wonka soundtrack and miming exaggerated …

Here at CR we have an arduous training process for our new volunteers. We ask them to perform feats of physical strength and stamina, like doing sprints with heavy stacks of the current issue on their heads and standing atop a teeny platform for a really, really long time (the latter we stole from Survivor, …

Though we read cover letters with interest here at CR, they don’t really play a part in our decision-making process. Cover letters are kind of like internal organs. You don’t think too much about them unless they’re bloated or causing you pain. Sometimes we’ll receive cover letters in which authors try to sell us on …

REJECT REJECTION! Attribute it to post-AWP punchiness, but for this month’s contest, we’re going to try something a little risky. At the mag, we’re all writers too, which is to say we’ve all been rejected, numerous times, which is to say we know well the lowering moment of finding a form response in the mailbox’s …