Cincinnati Review

Comma Clarification

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 29, 2012 | Uncategorized

As we await delivery of our summer issue (due any day from our printer), we’re not exactly picking our noses. Or if we are picking our noses, it’s because we weren’t raised right, not because we have nothing...

Swan Song: Final Contributor Comments from 8.2

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 24, 2012 | From our Contributors

The days during which Issue 8.2 can be proud of its status as newest, youngest issue are waning:...

What We’re Reading

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 22, 2012 | What We're Reading

Matt McBride: Lately I’ve been reading Terrance Hayes’s newest collection, Lighthead...

Submissions Trends and Tips

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 17, 2012 | Submission Trends and Tips, Uncategorized

We receive about 1,500 poems, stories, and essays a month through our online submission manager, and many of those submissions get read by our staff, who have noticed the following trends. . . . Becky Adnot-Haynes: Maybe it has...

Call for Submissions: CR’s 2012 Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in Prose and Poetry

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 14, 2012 | Contests

Writers: Polish up your best poems, stories, and creative nonfiction, because we’re gearing up to read entries for the 2012 Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in Prose and Poetry. One winning poem and one prose piece (fiction or...

Word Without End

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 11, 2012 | Uncategorized

A final reminder that Word Without End takes place tomorrow at Christy’s Biergarten in Clifton from 6:00 p.m. till 9:00 p.m. We’ve got a great lineup of readers and performers (listed below). Come and hang out with us! Jody...

“Testimony”: Why We Like It

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 9, 2012 | Why We Like It

Sara Watson is one of our new volunteers here at the Cincinnati Review. Unfortunately, we’re an office staffed by introverts, and so we spend much of the day avoiding eye contact and answering each other’s earnest attempts at...

Hark, Prose Approacheth!

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 7, 2012 | Uncategorized

Last week we leaked a few lines from poems in our upcoming issue—and now we’re following up with a spate of prose teasers. Good stuff coming, readers! A mere month away . . . David Yost, from “The Carousel...

Readerly Refreshment: A Sneak Preview

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 4, 2012 | Uncategorized

Issue 9.1 is officially at the printer, and we’re as cranked up as four-year-olds on cherry Kool-Aid. There’s still time to order your subscription here! To whet your appetite for the issue (which is so much better than a...