A decade or so ago, when we read a good book review, it left us both hungry and restless. “Surely,” we’d say too loudly with finger raised, “there must be a different take on this, some other astute but equally illuminating opinion on the qualities of this work.” That’s why at The Cincinnati Review, we …
A bit of news related to our developing interest in words and music. (Look for our first art-song feature in our November issue, coming soon!) Kevin Simmonds, whose poems appeared in 9.2 and will also appear in 11.1 (spring/summer 2014), is the composer of a musical piece being performed this weekend and next in San Francisco. …
Thanks, AWP! We are finalists for the AWP Small Press Publisher Award, along with One Story and Creative Nonfiction. The winner will receive $2000 and an exhibit booth at the 2015 conference. We’ll be nibbling our nails till the announcement in Seattle!
Our Emerging Poets Festival kicks off this Friday afternoon in the Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library. We’ve made it part of our mission to support strong new writers—and four of these talented comers (bios below) will gather for a panel discussion at 2:00 and a reading at 3:00. Both events are free and open to the …
Kenneth Nichols over at Great Writers Steal has constructed a tutorial in thieving from Brendan Mathews’s short story “My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer.” Mathews’s story first appeared in issue 6.1, and later lit up the pages of Best American Short Stories 2010. Here’s a little something we …
Hey, Space Needle, you think you’re towering? You ain’t seen nothing. We Monsters of the Midwest are going to **literary reference alert** throw a Buick at you. You think you’re observation central? We’re going to **here’s another one** outgaze you into the abyss. You think you’re where the party starts, Seattle-wise? Wrongers. It starts at …
Coming of age is difficult, as any awkward teen will tell you. Your body is raging with hormones, creating sweaty palms, cracked voices, and terrible decisions. You have crushing responsibilities like taking out trash and cleaning your room. You’re supposed to find yourself (and you may be looking your whole life). You are vulnerable to …
Justine McNulty: A first collection of stories, Battleborn presents us with a compelling new voice, and over the course of the book, its author, Clare Vaye Watkins, displays a deft handling and understanding of, not only prose, but narrative. I appreciated the way the first story plays with the idea of “beginnings,” the way it …
The blog was silent on Friday to mark the sudden passing of Sarah Richards Doerries, a contributor to our Winter 2008 issue who had been steadily and generously reading CR submissions for more than a year. She volunteered for this work because she loved it, and the editors here looked forward to her informed and …
You know how when you’re not sure what to order for lunch you throw a dart at the menu? No? Really? Just us? Okay, then you know when you aren’t sure how to stop your mother-in-law from buying you t-shirts with cute critters on them (because six is enough) you send a letter to Ann …
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