excerpt from WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY by Ruth Tang
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Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 23, 2021 | Samples
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Wayne reminds us that remembering always comes with the price of reliving the moment.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 22, 2021 | Contests
It’s officially summer, which means we’re accepting submissions to the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards!
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 17, 2021 | Writers' Day Jobs
Fiction writer Jenn Scott shares her perspective on the craft of being a server in the restaurant industry: “I love juggling nine thousand things at once and smoothing over potential catastrophes.”
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 16, 2021 | miCRo
The speaker of this poem is both voiceover and musical soundtrack at once, singing us through their experience…
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 10, 2021 | microreview & interview
Assistant Editor Taylor Byas interviews Matt Mitchell about his debut collection, The Neon Hollywood Cowboy, in which Mitchell “spins us a record, songs of longing and love crooning from grainy speakers.”
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 9, 2021 | miCRo
With a dying Granddad sleeping downstairs and a newborn Lydia sleeping upstairs, the speaker of this piece hovers in the purgatory between…
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 3, 2021 | Why We Like It
“Hotshot” closes with the realization that sometimes a fire gets too hot and high for anything else to stop it. These final lines can also serve as a metaphor for addiction—sometimes the fire of it can only be put out with more fire…
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 2, 2021 | Samples
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Lauren Osborn’s microfiction “Ortolan” drops us into the intersection of hunger and desire, the crossroad where they meet and become one.
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