Friends and readers: Nurse your chocolate hangover by having some editorial fun! Show off your proofreading skills by entering our Blue Pencil Prize contest here by this Friday, February 17. We’ve already got one winner, but there’s room for more: The next four people to find a legitimate error in issue 8.2 will win their …
One comforting thing about working for a pittance in an undervalued field at a besieged bastion of higher learning is that we’re not alone. In fact, we are legion (if the AWP registration figure is any indication), which means that even though we may never attain fortune or fame by any worldly standard, we do …
We’re thrilled to announce our latest arrival: Issue 8.2! Although slightly overdue, this edition of the Cincinnati Review is chock-full of good literature and art; the extra gestation time was worth it. Though we can’t throw a cigar in with the journal (media mail regulations and all), it’s headed out to you via the United …
Our regular blog-readers (whom we casually yet affectionately refer to as bloggulers) are already familiar with Don Peteroy’s recurring feature, in which our volunteer-cum-inquisitor poses a single, and singular, question to a hapless group of innocent wordsmiths of his choosing. (He likes them—a lot—though sometimes it’s hard to tell.) Don is also a musician, a …
You know how sometimes you can tell something about a person just by looking at her? For example, the staff here at CR can tell you nine times out of ten what color a person’s hair is with little more than a prolonged glance (the tenth time we get tripped up by the nuances of …
CR volunteer Nick Story is a fiction writer. But of course! you say. With a name like that, how could he be anything but? Well, the story (pun intended) isn’t as simple as you’d think. Even though he sprang from his crib waxing eloquent on his eternally spinning mobile—and as a second-grader wrote a forty-page …
Issue 8.2 is almost here! Until then, you can print our cover image, from a painting by Antonio Carreno, to make an imitation issue to tide you over for the next couple weeks.
Sound the hand trumpets and drum your pencils: We are now tweeting! Follow us @CincinnReview for updates on the magazine, AWP news, contest announcements, and plenty of other exciting stuff, like reports about what we had for lunch, notes on how rockin’ our morning cardio sessions were, and commentary on how totally psyched/pissed we are …