micro nonfiction

miCRo: “Inventory of Your Things as I Empty Your House” by Anita Wright Collins

by Cincinnati Review | Oct 19, 2022 | miCRo | 0

This piece moves seamlessly between fact and feeling, illustrating how objects are often the most powerful doorways into memories.

miCRo: “Magdalene” and “Easter” by Sonja Livingston

by Cincinnati Review | May 11, 2022 | miCRo | 0

Two essays that grapple with the place of women in history, specifically an enslaved Native ancestor and a prehistoric “greatest grandmother.”

miCRo: “Checking” by Sarah Beth Childers

by Cincinnati Review | Jun 9, 2021 | miCRo | 0

With a dying Granddad sleeping downstairs and a newborn Lydia sleeping upstairs, the speaker of this piece hovers in the purgatory between…

miCRo: “On Statistics” by Zining Mok

by Cincinnati Review | Jun 5, 2019 | miCRo | 0

We’re given an alienating, bug-eating premise, placed in an effete literary space and positioned at odds with the whole stiff scene (uncomfortable shoes, Wordsworth’s snobbery, the “man, suited and tied”, etc.). Then, suddenly, we are steeped in a rich, compelling argument about Western exceptionalism…

miCRo: “Pectin” by Gretchen VanWormer

by Cincinnati Review | Feb 20, 2019 | miCRo | 0

Assistant Editor Jess Jelsma Masterton: For me, much of the pleasure of the lyric essay comes from what Sven Birkerts dubs “counterpointed perspectives” in his craft book The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again.