Every other fall, the University of Cincinnati’s Department of English hosts an Emerging Writers Festival. The list this year features some names we know well! We printed Caitlyn Horrocks’s story “Embodied” in Issue 3.1; it was her first published story and later appeared in her collection This Is Not Your City (Sarabande, 2011). Her stories …
When the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to award a prize in fiction last April, you were confused. Was this a bum year for the American imagination? An artistic recession for representing imaginary people with words? Had our writers, like our politicians and parents, let us down? But if you’d been reading with any diligence …
Congratulations to our talented contributors, who keep racking up the laurels! Fellowship News Ari Banias (Issue 5.1) is the recipient of the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was awarded a work-study scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Sara Gelston (9.1) is the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow …
Congratulations to members of the Cincinnati Review family on their recent literary success: Editorial Assistant Katherine Zlabek won an AWP Intro Journals Award for her story “Hunting the Rut.” Her story will appear in Artful Dodge next year. Zlabek’s stories have also appeared in Madison Review, JMWW, Oxford Magazine, SAGA, The Rectangle, and the anthology …
Our heartiest congratulations to contributor Edith Pearlman, who won the National Book Critics Circle award last week for her story collection Binocular Vision (Lookout Books, 2011), which was also a nominee for the National Book Award (the only fiction nominee to be on both lists) and won the PEN/Malamud prize for short fiction. Pearlman is …
One of CR’s contributors, Jamie Quatro, was interviewed by a Chattanooga radio station about her forthcoming book from Grove/Atlantic. To listen, click HERE. Jamie’s excellent story “Ladies and Gentlemen of the Pavement” (included in the collection) appeared in CR volume 6, number 2.
At our weekly staff meeting on Wednesday, we talked proofreading and typesetting, but we also gorged ourselves on a delicious King Cake (Assistant Editor Becky Adnot-Haynes found the baby in her piece and will thus bring the cake next year), celebrating good times for CR staff members. As we noted a few weeks ago, volunteer …
February is beginning well for The Cincinnati Review. Our new issue is out in the mail, the AWP conference is on the horizon, and it’s 57 degrees today. Who cares if Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow? His prediction is fixed by the mysterious Inner Circle, after all, and trees are beginning to bud already. Another …
The force of the thunderclap that woke us this morning at 3 a.m. heralded good news: two more of our contributors have been chosen for two great anthologies! Don Russ’s poem “Girl with Gerbil” (from Issue 8.1) has been chosen for the Best American Poetry 2012. He joins other contributors Julianna Baggott, James Kimbrell, and …
We are exceptionally thrilled to congratulate three of our contributors whose poems (all from Issue 7.2) were chosen by Mark Doty for the Best American Poetry 2012! Julianna Baggott, “For Furious Nursing Baby” James Kimbrell, “How to Tie a Knot” Dean Rader, “Self-Portrait as Dido to Aeneas” Greatest congratulations to them! Below, we’ve posted some …
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