So the result of the game of the month was (inhale, hold) . . . we stumped you. Verily, it is an arduous test, so we blame you not. However, two intrepid souls ventured outside the box (or test square, if you will) and came up with, er, not answers exactly, but augmentations that we …
We here at Cincinnati Review are pleased to announce that online submissions are now officially open and fully operational! That’s right, baby. You know that story you wrote about the disillusioned single mom who learns to love again when a traveling magician pulls a quarter from her ear and the cloud of bitterness from her …
Think you’re special? Well, the odds are in your favor. But are you special in an “I make tiny replicas of the buildings in my hometown out of dry bread and Vaseline” kind of way? Or more in an “I own every flesh-colored M.U.S.C.L.E. Men figurine” kind of way. Remember M.U.S.C.L.E Men? From the 80s? …
Here at CR we have an arduous training process for our new volunteers. We ask them to perform feats of physical strength and stamina, like doing sprints with heavy stacks of the current issue on their heads and standing atop a teeny platform for a really, really long time (the latter we stole from Survivor, …
A few months ago, CR staff member Don Peteroy announced he was going to conduct an interviewing experiment. His idea was to contact writers he admires (he is an intrepid, yea tireless, journal reader) and ask them each an absurd (yea, downright ridiculous) question—a question designed to throw said writer off balance and elicit an …
Get ready, ’cause we’re gearing up for a second installment of Monster Mags of the Midwest at this year’s AWP conference in Chicago. That’s right. Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter are once again teaming up to deliver what will be, in all likelihood, the most awesomely monstrous reading ever. Because if there’s one …
Kudos to the amazing profs and students who make our grad program in writing excelente. Poets & Writers magazine has ranked UC’s PhD in creative writing #8 in the country!
CR volunteer Brian Trapp is haunted. If you see him from a distance, you might think the noxious-looking cloud wafting behind him is indicative of a Pigpen-like stench, but really Brian smells okay (a bit like cashews, actually). The emanations trailing him like a comet’s gaseous tail are, in fact, [booming voice here] HIS DEMONS. …
WVXU generously interviewed our managing editor, Nicola Mason, for a segment that aired yesterday on Cincinnati Edition. For those of you who weren’t fully caffeinated and eagerly listening to public radio at 7 a.m. on a Sunday, here’s the link to WVXU’s mp3. Just scroll down to August 7 and click on The Cincinnati Review …
We just wanted to send a quick reminder that our Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in poetry and prose submission period will close at the end of this month. Aside from the honor of possibly winning a contest from a superior literary journal (one that was recently ranked in the nation’s top twenty we might …
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