Contest News!
Sound the kazoos! Entrants, you can now submit using our Submission Manager—and pay using our online-buy function. We look forward to reading your poems, stories, and essays.
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On Caffeine, the Contest, and Mad Quackery
Hi there blog followers. Sorry for our stretch of silence. We all were hospitalized for the excessive coffee/burrito consumption that we required to survive the last weeks of spring term. Turns out Trehalose, Lactic Acid, and Torula Yeast (ingredients in Taco Bell’s seasoned beef) don’t combine well with massive doses of caffeine. We no longer …
Contest Update
Our contest is officially open! Unfortunately, we’re still trying to configure Submission Manager so that you can pay your entry fee securely online at the same time you submit your piece(s) for consideration. Of course, the old-fashioned way always works. You can wait a bit for us to work out the kinks in our system, …
“Proof”: Why We Like It
Volunteer Suzanne Wendell has a special kind of speaking voice. It is melodious and relaxing, kind of like one of those Sounds of the Ocean CDs minus the crashing waves. We’ve wasted entire afternoons asking her to repeat phrases like “purple mountain majesty” and “oodles of noodles.” Sometimes we even kind of zone out listening …
Comma Clarification
As we await delivery of our summer issue (due any day from our printer), we’re not exactly picking our noses. Or if we are picking our noses, it’s because we weren’t raised right, not because we have nothing better to do. For one thing, we’re all reading rapaciously to keep on top of all the …
Submissions Trends and Tips
We receive about 1,500 poems, stories, and essays a month through our online submission manager, and many of those submissions get read by our staff, who have noticed the following trends. . . . Becky Adnot-Haynes: Maybe it has to do with the current popularity of Gotye’s musical version, but I feel like we’ve been …
Word Without End
A final reminder that Word Without End takes place tomorrow at Christy’s Biergarten in Clifton from 6:00 p.m. till 9:00 p.m. We’ve got a great lineup of readers and performers (listed below). Come and hang out with us! Jody Bates, Don Bogen, Mica Darley-Emerson, Danielle Deulen, Ben Dudley, Luke Geddes, Michael Griffith, Alli Hammond, Chris …
Hark, Prose Approacheth!
Last week we leaked a few lines from poems in our upcoming issue—and now we’re following up with a spate of prose teasers. Good stuff coming, readers! A mere month away . . . David Yost, from “The Carousel Thief”: Farzad’s first experience with competitive eating had been at a picnic table outside a slaughterhouse …
Readerly Refreshment: A Sneak Preview
Issue 9.1 is officially at the printer, and we’re as cranked up as four-year-olds on cherry Kool-Aid. There’s still time to order your subscription here! To whet your appetite for the issue (which is so much better than a powder composed of red dye, citric acid, and other natural and artificial flavors), we wanted to …
Collaborative Feature—Soapbox and CR
For our second collaborative feature with Cincinnati’s own online magazine Soapbox, we’re featuring Lili Wright’s short-short story “Handyman” from issue 8.2. Soapbox tells the new Cincinnati story—a narrative of creative people and businesses, new development, cool places to live, and the best places to work and play. And every other month, Cincinnati Review will contribute some …