On the Schiff Prize Winners . . .
Fiction Editor Michael Griffith on choosing Carey Cameron’s “Thursday”: “Thursday” takes up—in subtle, touching, psychologically acute ways—a subject that seems to get relatively little...
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Secret Talents of the CR Staff: Round Two
Last week we gave you a taste of the CR staff’s nonliterary talents (it turns out that in addition to being experts at polishing manuscripts for publication, we’ve got mad skillz in quite a few different areas). Today, the fun...
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Five Reasons to Love Best American
It’s here! The Best American Poetry 2012 has “dropped” and is in stores/amazon warehouses as you...
Read MoreBonus Material: Donaldson, Gelston, Grimm
Each new issue of The Cincinnati Review is like a baby to us. We nourish it, change it, tell funny anecdotes about it, and murmur gentle encouragements in its ear about the amazing lit mag issue it will someday become. And then,...
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Emerging Writers Festival at the University of Cincinnati
Every other fall, the University of Cincinnati’s Department of English hosts an Emerging...
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Secret Talents of the CR Staff
Here at the CR office, we’re usually focused on reading and discussing manuscripts, copy-editing...
Read MoreSchiff Prize Winners and Notables
Thanks to all of our amazing entrants in the 2012 Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in Poetry and Prose. We are delighted to announce that Emily Hipchen is the winner of the Poetry Prize for “Boy into Polished Concrete,” and Carey...
Read MoreVideo Feature: Nance Van Winckel’s “Photoems”
Nance Van Winckel is a decorated poet and fiction writer with almost as many books as fingers, but in our upcoming issue she blends poetry with visual art to create what she calls “photoems.” Her breathtaking digital...
Read MoreContest Update
Thanks to all those who yanked out their issues and methodically counted their way to the winning sentence: Well-behaved sharks eat Taco Bell for a rare and challenging treat. As I write this, sling-packs and thermoses are...
Read MoreMonthly Contest: Issue 9.1 Mash-Up
For this month’s contest, associate editor Becky Adnot-Haynes took a cue from Glee (back when it used to be good) and created a mash-up of words and phrases from choice poems and stories in CR’s latest issue. And now we...
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