This week, we’re meeting to finish our proofreading, a multi-step process involving the authors, managing editor, poetry and fiction editors, and assistant/associate editors. Each of us gets out our loupe and a...
Read MoreHere at the CR office we read a lot of submissions. And we like doing it—and even though we can’t take every piece that strikes our fancy, every week we take note of a well-drawn scene, a lovely line, or a pleasingly complex...
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CR’s own prodigal editor, Don Bogen (who also goes by the monikers “The Bogues,”...
Read MoreHere at the CR office we come across a lot of different kinds of volunteers. There was one volunteer who earned a perfect score on his copy-editing test but who came in dead last in our goetta-eating competition (we like to...
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Lisa Ampleman: It’s hard to describe The Riots (University of Georgia Press, 2011), by Danielle...
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Our contributor Nick Johnson was generous enough to set up a reading for our latest issue that...
Read MoreThis year, we’re doing it big: Our annual Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in Poetry and Prose will now include an honorarium of $1000. One winning poem and prose piece (fiction or creative nonfiction) will be chosen for...
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Our T-shirts were a hit at AWP: Pushing , shoving, and literary insults ensued as aspiring and...
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Our heartiest congratulations to contributor Edith Pearlman, who won the National Book Critics...
Read MoreWe’re coming down from an AWP high—all those famous writers! Poets in the hotel bar, novelists in the line to catch cabs, babies in the tomatoes! Okay, maybe that last is from a Ginsberg poem, but we enjoyed the scene. Thanks to...
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