We’re so happy with the responses to our game of the month that we’ve decided to award prizes to everyone who contributed disturbing, gross, deeply frightening, sad, and all-around hilarious cover letters. Confession: We’re doing this in part to make room in our storage closet for the new issue—which should arrive next week! But we …
Though we read cover letters with interest here at CR, they don’t really play a part in our decision-making process. Cover letters are kind of like internal organs. You don’t think too much about them unless they’re bloated or causing you pain. Sometimes we’ll receive cover letters in which authors try to sell us on …
Our small, give-it-our-all staff is ecstatic about Every Writer’s Resource new ranking of US literary magazines. They have our humble publication as number 20, the second-youngest in the top 30 (after Tin House). Among university-affiliated magazines, CR would be number 11 (number 3 among journals whose schools grant creative writing PhDs). We’re honored to be …
More good news for CR! Three stories from issue 6.1—Chris Bachelder’s “Lucky Abbott,” “Christie Hodgen’s “Bedtime Stories for the Middle-Aged,” and Brian Mooney’s “SPQR”—have been listed as “Special Mentions” in the 2011 Pushcart Prize anthology. Congratulations to Chris, Christie, and Brian!
It’s wonderful to have our offices here in the campus clock tower (a space we’re afforded because no one knows we’ve moved in), but the giant, moving machinery—wheels and pinions, swinging levers, spinning gears—could be considered a hazard of the job. One quickly learns how to duck, hop, and somersault with the rest of the …
This week’s “Why We Like It” feature is a double whammy. It’s written by Becky Adnot, a long-time volunteer who is soon to join our staff (fall 2011); so this is also a “Why We Like Her” feature. For one thing, Becky has read submissions going on three years now—purely for the love of it. …
On a particularly frigid Wednesday of last month, volunteer Brandon Whiting appeared for his office hours in nothing but an elaborate feather jumpsuit. This was not unusual in itself—feather suits are actually required office wear—so we didn’t think much of it. And when he began touting the benefits of an “all-marsh” diet, we figured he …
McMicken Hall! Our snug office is in the cupola. (We also report on the weather and traffic patterns for Channel 9.)
This just in from our poetry editor Don Bogen, who is on a Fulbright in Belfast. We miss you, Don! Don Bogen: I’ve been getting a handle on the local accent. According to a linguist in the department here at Queen’s, the story goes that a wild black pig stuck its snout into the earth …
To everyone who played our game of the month: Thanks for the rejection! (We never thought we’d say that). Your fake rejections made at least four editors laugh coffee out of their noses, and for that reason alone we accept you all. However, we are literary magazine editors, with all the dragon scales, icy hearts, …
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