Debunking miCRo Myths
I came across many well-meaning flash fiction “Do and Don’t” lists all of which managed, without fail, to piss me off.
Submission Trends and Tips
Trends and Tips: Writing Disability
To learn more about the problems underlying disability tropes and metaphors, I turned to Emily Rose Cole, previous Cincinnati Review editorial assistant and current PhD candidate in English and Disability Studies at University of Cincinnati.
Trends and Tips: How to Take and Choose an Author Photo
At one time or another, most authors will need a head shot. You could be publishing a piece with an online venue, building your author website, providing a photo to an organization that has recently awarded you a prize or a residency—you name it!
Trends and Tips: Our Award-Winning miCRo Series
So, what exactly are we looking for when we read through miCRo submissions?
Trends and Tips: Writing Women
Assistant Editor Jess Jelsma Masterton: In a typical week at CR, I read through anywhere from twenty-five to forty submissions, from 500 word miCRos to 8000+word stories, novel excerpts, and essays. While my tastes run the gambit from lyric fabulist fiction to hyperrealism, there is one aspect guaranteed to pull me out of an otherwise …
Trends and Tips: miCRo Magic!
Assistant Editor Molly Reid: As a lover of flash fiction, I was elated to start my first year with the Cincinnati Review just as it was rolling out miCRo, the magazine’s online short-form feature. In six months, we’ve published 18 stellar pieces of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid work. Our guidelines are fairly open: “For …
Submission Trends: Flotsam and Imago
Associate Editor James Ellenberger: For the past month I’ve been reading poetry submissions for the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards here at The Cincinnati Review. There have been some interesting patterns so far, particularly on the level of shared terminology. It isn’t unusual to read multiple poems in a single sitting about the same topic—the …
Documents with the Seams Showing
We’ve noticed an interesting trend here at The Cincinnati Review as we continue to read the poems, stories, and essays uploaded to our submission manager before the March 15 deadline: When we open up Microsoft Word files, we sometimes find ghosts of previous drafts lurking there in electronic form. In these cases, there’s a bright …
Petty Yawp: Submission Trends and Tips
Assistant Editor James Ellenberger: The Trump submissions have arrived. Droves of flaxen-haired poems and stories bask in the submission queue like flaccid porcupines, bristling at the cool, liberal wind that whistles atop our heads here at the CR office. Things to keep in mind: Trump is, yes, a total goon, an irregular Cheeto that shouldn’t have …
A Sabermetric Note from Your Submission Manager Manager
As we ease into March (and Spring Training), we find ourselves in the final stretch of our reading period, which ends March 15th. Here’s Senior Associate Editor Matt O’Keefe offering up some play-by-play on submissions patterns he’s noticed over the years. Matt O’Keefe: Six to three to one. What is that? A somewhat decisive community council vote? One of your rarer …