Announcing our 2023 Awards Nominees
We are delighted to announce our 2023 literary award nominees.
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Author: Cincinnati Review
Tierney Oberhammer On Two Images that Inspired “Sunshine Skyway”
Tierney Oberhammer reflects on two images that inspired the story “Sunshine Skyway,” published in issue 20.2.
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excerpt from “Sunshine Skyway” by Tierney Oberhammer
“The peephole is installed backward,” my one-night stand said as I sat up in bed. We were in his...
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miCRo: “(perhaps?)” by Fatma Omar
“Father would guard the door, saying
Don’t go in there, your mother is busy
She will be out soon”
miCRo: “Time travel by train” by Amy A. Whitcomb
In this holiday tale we ride along with the inhabitants of a toy railroad through scraps of the narrator’s own family history.
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Two poems by Saadi Youssef translated by Khaled Mattawa
Two poems by an exiled Iraqi poet that blend the everyday with the horrors of war.
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Special Feature: “Due Water” by Ginger Ko
Ginger Ko complicates what it can mean to say “Me too” in an essay about familial abuse.
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miCRo: “Lunch Break” by Winshen Liu
Winshen Liu’s poem “Lunch Break” interrogates hunger and sustenance.
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Stories Worth Telling by Natalie Villacorta
Natalie Villacorta talks about how working with children at WordPlay Cincy and Oyler High School helped her see her own writing practices.
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Writing Therapy: Spoken Word in the Corporate World by MoPoetry Phillips
MoPoetry Phillips discusses the power of writing therapy for those who have experienced trauma as well as for those in the corporate world.
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