More Pushcart Nominations!!!
We both love and hate nominating pieces for the Pushcart Prize. With our allotment of a mere six...
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Tag: CR 12.2
Obstacles & Aversions
Rochelle Hurt: There is something to be said for writing against or away from received traditions and natural proclivities. Often, the result is a kind of verve and vigor we may not otherwise access. Several contributors to CR...
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “The Brief Second Life of Winston Whithers’s Wife” by Leslie Entsminger
Eric Van Hoose: Ghost stories tend to hinge on the question of the ghost’s existence. Either the figment is real or it isn’t, and story’s purpose is to find the answer. But from the first moments of Leslie Entsminger’s...
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “Make No Bones about It” by Cindy Beebe
Rochelle Hurt: In music, riffing usually refers to a method of composition in which a single element (like a series of notes in a specific order) is repeated, sometimes changing slightly with each new iteration, in order to form...
Read MoreLaunch Party!
The Cincinnati Review is celebrating our new issue with a launch party at Wash Park Art (a gallery at 1215 Elm Street, right across from Washington Park near Music Hall) this Friday, January 22, from 5:00 to 8:00. Come join us...
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Shipping Week!
Our winter issue has arrived! We’re busy stuffing, taping, stamping, and hauling...
Read MoreExposing Our Roots: Coben, Wineman, Revell, Bagdanov
Seamus Heaney’s famous poem “Digging” provides a well-loved metaphor for the writing process: pen as spade, the past as soil. “Between my finger and my thumb,” he writes, “The squat pen rests./I’ll dig with it.” In discussing...
Read MoreOngoing Subscription Offer
As a followup to Monday’s post, whereby we offered readers sample passages from our forthcoming fiction, we’re now presenting a poetry gallimaufry, as it were. AND we’ll make good on our subscription bonus till...
Read MoreSnifters of Snippets
Fall term is in full swing here at UC, and the halls are hopping. So is our office. We have two new staffers—Rochelle Hurt and Jose Araguz—as well as a fresh group of grad volunteers. We’re already in the thick...
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