The past few weeks have brought some good news for those connected to Cincinnati Review: Trophy, by Michael Griffith, our fiction editor, was named to the Best Fiction of 2011 list by Kirkus Reviews. The original (starred!) review said, “Griffith’s word wizardy, his facile puns, his insight into the human heart and his topsy-turvy sardonic …
Nicola Mason: I recently received word from one of our contributors, Jamie Quatro, that her story collection has been taken for publication by Grove/Atlantic. (CR was lucky enough to present the title story, “Ladies and Gentlemen of the Pavement,” to our readership in issue 6.2.) When I read this excellent news, I was put in …
A hearty congratulations to two of our contributors who have been named 2011 National Book Award finalists! Frequent contributor Edith Pearlman is recognized for her short-story collection Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories (Lookout Books, 2011). Pearlman’s stories have appeared in Issues 2.2, 4.2, 6.1, and 7.1, and a new story, “Life Lessons” is forthcoming …
We’re thrilled to spread the news that contributor Aaron Gilbreath’s “Dreams of the Atomic Era,” from our Summer 2010 issue, has just been listed as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2011. The piece explores his love for the Googie architecture of 1950s and ’60s coffee-shops and motels, including boomerang-shaped roofs and amoeba- and atom-motifs. …
A slew of good news for our talented contributors! Fellowship News: Ari Banias (5.1) has been awarded a fellowship in poetry to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Sarah Rose Nordgren (6.1) will be a second-year fellow. Laura Eve Engel (8.1) is the 2011-12 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the …
Check out this great article on Cincinnati’s literary landscape. Thank you, Soapbox!
Huge congrats to contributor Edith Pearlman on this prestigious award! Look for “Life Lessons,” a new story from Edith, in our next issue (Volume 8, Number 2: November 2011).
Our small, give-it-our-all staff is ecstatic about Every Writer’s Resource new ranking of US literary magazines. They have our humble publication as number 20, the second-youngest in the top 30 (after Tin House). Among university-affiliated magazines, CR would be number 11 (number 3 among journals whose schools grant creative writing PhDs). We’re honored to be …
It is time to embarrass our fiction editor, Michael: His new novel Trophy just garnered a starred review from Kirkus! We’ve always thought of Michael, the man, as “a quirky, imaginative, dazzling black comedy,” and much of the pleasure of having him around the office is due to his “word wizardry, his facile puns, his …
More good news for CR! Three stories from issue 6.1—Chris Bachelder’s “Lucky Abbott,” “Christie Hodgen’s “Bedtime Stories for the Middle-Aged,” and Brian Mooney’s “SPQR”—have been listed as “Special Mentions” in the 2011 Pushcart Prize anthology. Congratulations to Chris, Christie, and Brian!
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