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Debunking miCRo Myths

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 22, 2019 | Submission Trends and Tips

I came across many well-meaning flash fiction “Do and Don’t” lists all of which managed, without fail, to piss me off.

miCRo: Two pieces by Barbara Black

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 16, 2019 | miCRo

From their first sentences to their last, “Needlework” and “Gotunabe” pull the reader in with their odd, satisfying images. Drink these wonderful pieces up.

“Cubby Safe” by Julianna Baggott

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 15, 2019 | Special Features

Frequent CR contributor Julianna Baggott has constructed a dark and all-too-believable morality tale about gun violence in schools. The light tone of the young narrator belies the eerie circumstances the schoolchildren experience in the name of safety.

Translations: How to Get Started

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 10, 2019 | Editors' Dispatches

Translations play an integral role in our reading experience, but we don’t get many translation submissions. In this piece, I explore how a beginner might get started in translation, with help from Lily Meyer.

miCRo: “Retail Therapy” by Molly Bess Rector

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 9, 2019 | miCRo

In Molly Bess Rector’s poem “Retail Therapy,” lonely girls go shopping. Across reflecting couplets, the surface of a lake in summer morphs into a department store window. Behind the window grows a garden of what was and what could be: “Oh, to dress / beyond ourselves.”

Announcing Our Contest Winners!

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 3, 2019 | Contests

Winners of the Eleventh Annual Robert and Adele Schiff Awards in Poetry and Prose:
Bernard Ferguson for his poem “you’re welcome” and Julie Marie Wade for her essay “Perfect Hands”

miCRo: “Kim” by Koss

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 2, 2019 | miCRo

This piece is invested in collapsing time, in freeze-framing and rewinding inexplicable violence.

Trends and Tips: Writing Disability

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Sep 26, 2019 | Interviews, Submission Trends and Tips

To learn more about the problems underlying disability tropes and metaphors, I turned to Emily Rose Cole, previous Cincinnati Review editorial assistant and current PhD candidate in English and Disability Studies at University of Cincinnati.

miCRO: “Eid al-Adha” by Latifa Ayad

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Sep 25, 2019 | miCRo

In less than 500 words, Ayad’s sweeping essay takes us from the speaker’s mother’s baklava to the rams sacrificed on the family’s farm to the “grapey surface” of a “dissected sheep’s eye.”