Nominations for Pushcart, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions
We’re thrilled to share our nominations for this year’s Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions.
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Author: Cincinnati Review
Special Feature: “Master’s Mirror” by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
In “Master’s Mirror,” Steinorth reminds us that the purpose of erasure poetry isn’t to erase, but the opposite—it is to reveal what has already been obscured.
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miCRo: “Mother” by SJ Sindu
By pairing repetition and lists as the narrative moves through time, Sindu forms a striking portrait of a mother-daughter relationship complicated by generational differences.
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Writing Advice We’re Thankful to Have Received
In the spirit of the season, we here at CR thought it might be nice (and cathartic) to pause, take a deep breath, and reflect on some of the best writing advice we are thankful to have received.
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miCRo: “boysenberry marmalade” by JJ Peña
At the beginning of “boysenberry marmalade,” the nine-year-old narrator tells us about his Tía Nora’s new “atomic guts.”
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miCRo: “White People Parenting” by Frances An
In “White People Parenting,” the observing speaker slowly realizes she is also being observed. … “Meanwhile, the baby stares at me—no, it’s staring at Noodles-Alfalfa woman, who is in turn watching me watch them.”
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Interview with Felicia Zamora
An interview with Felicia Zamora. “Photography and poetry help me question human behavior in very distinct and unique ways; they both have lenses that swivel simultaneously outward and inward.”
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Interview with Aditi Machado
An interview with Aditi Machado. “I tend to think I became a more interesting writer after, and while, translating Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia. There’s something about sinking into someone else’s—a different language’s—syntax and sonics that reorients your relationship to your chosen writing language(s).”
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Why We Like It: “Erase the Days” by Jason Ockert and “Recurring” by Lyndsey Reese
I’m resistant to making generalizations about genres. I’m of the general opinion that poetry and fiction use the same ingredients, just with wildly different doses.
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excerpt from “Recurring” by Lyndsey Reese
The Father, Deceased He appears in a hospital hallway. On the front porch of her home in Phoenix,...
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