Tag: Toni Judnitch
Writing about the Pandemic during the Pandemic
A roundup of pandemic-related creative work, blog posts, and interviews from The Cincinnati Review and friends.
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Why We Like It: Patch Kirschenbaum’s “For Future Reference: Notes on the 7-10 Split”
I could go on and on about Kirschenbaum’s striking (ha) images, characterization, and humor, but what really made this story stand out to me was its powerful use of second person point-of-view.
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On Writing During a Global Pandemic
We’ve talked before about reading during the pandemic , but writing during this real-life Groundhog Day has presented its own challenges.
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miCRo: “What I Know about Space” by Melissa Bowers
Melissa Bowers’s hybrid piece “What I Know About Space” uses descriptions of the cosmos as a distancing tactic, its vignettes functioning as satellites swirling around a deeper issue for the speaker.
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Common Mistakes When Writing Dialogue (and how to avoid them)
Strong dialogue forwards plot, it demonstrates the nature of relationships, and it also (paradoxically) highlights what characters can’t or won’t say to one another.
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Cincinnati Review Staff Update: What We’re Up To
We wanted to introduce or reintroduce ourselves to you here at the start of the year. Here are some good news and goings-on from our staff (we’re writers too!).
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