The Cincinnati Review is pleased to announce that Chris Bachelder, author of Bear vs. Shark (Scribner, 2002), U.S.! (Bloomsbury, 2006), and Abbott Awaits (Yellow Shoe Fiction, 2011) will be joining the University of Cincinnati’s faculty next year. Chris has been a regular contributor to CR, with stories in issues 3.1 and 6.1. Welcome, Chris!
Great news: Contributor Chase Twichell, whose poem “Raw Umber” appears in issue 6.2, has won the 2011 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. This prestigious accolade, which comes with a $100,000 purse, is awarded each year to an outstanding mid-career poet. Congratulations, Chase! To read “Raw Umber,” check out Dave Nielsen’s “Why We Like It” blog post …
Our own Lisa Ampleman has won the latest Wick Chapbook Award for her manuscript I’ve Been Collecting This to Tell You. The judge was poet and professor Maggie Anderson, and the book will be out in spring of 2012. Three cheers for Lisa! (Assistant Editor Matt McBride is a previous Wick winner.)
Michael, our fiction editor, talked five smart writers—Alexander Chee, John McNally, Keith Lee Morris, Leah Stewart, and Justin Tussing—into reassessing the 1961 National Book Award for fiction. There’s no medal or cash prize to hand out, but we have a winner. To find out which book won, and to read our judges’ essays on the …
If you’ll be at AWP in DC, or even if you don’t know what that is but you’re within a two-week headlong sprint of Dupont Circle, then you should join the Monster Mags of the Midwest—Ninth Letter, Mid-American Review, and Cincinnati Review—for a fearsome night of reading, Heartland-style, with plenty of poetry, fiction, and beer …
We’re obviously big fans of Edith Pearlman—her story “Life Lessons” is coming out in our fall/winter issue (8.2), and you can read her stories in several CR back issues too. So we’re happy to see that her new collection, Binocular Vision, has garnered Sunday book reviews from both the NY Times and the LA Times. Check …
Kevin Young has selected D. A. Powell’s poem “Bugcatching at Twilight,” first printed in issue 7.1 of Cincinnati Review, for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2011. Congratulations, D. A.!
Thanks to Richard Russo for giving a shout out to Cincinnati Review on this past weekend’s All Things Considered. Check out the interview, in which he discusses Brendan Mathews’s story “My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer,” first published in our pages then reprinted in Best American Short Stories …
Congrats to Jane! Obviously we’re big fans—we’ve published her poems in two issues of The Cincinnati Review. Don is preparing to interview Jane, and we hope to run that conversation here on our blog in the weeks to come. Stay tuned!
Don Bogen on Ashley Seitz Kramer’s Prize-Winning Poem: What I especially admire in “Winter Storyboard” is the way it builds. There’s a sense of confidence and deft control behind the rhetoric and varied syntax here, and the pacing is exquisite. With each couplet we are led deeper into a world of nature, the eccentric, and …
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