Contest Submissions Now Open!
Spring might be coming to an end, but the summer contest season is just heating up!
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 18, 2019 | Contests
Spring might be coming to an end, but the summer contest season is just heating up!
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 12, 2019 | miCRo
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: This poem starts off deceptively simply, with a description of rooms and circumstances—a clean fridge, “intact” window blinds, and money in the bank.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 11, 2019 | Why We Like It
Alison Carey: The opening act of Dan O’Brien’s latest play, Newtown, is heartbreaking and nauseating: Nancy Lanza is speaking to her son, Adam, the night before he kills her and then twenty-six children and staff at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School…
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 5, 2019 | miCRo
We’re given an alienating, bug-eating premise, placed in an effete literary space and positioned at odds with the whole stiff scene (uncomfortable shoes, Wordsworth’s snobbery, the “man, suited and tied”, etc.). Then, suddenly, we are steeped in a rich, compelling argument about Western exceptionalism…
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 30, 2019 | Literary News
We’re exploding with excitement: The Cincinnati Review is a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award for general excellence in a magazine!
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 29, 2019 | miCRo
How can language be used to express the limits of language? In Laura Grothaus’s “Also Milk,” Luca reveals to the speaker that her mother’s losing language. “She calls everything milk. / Ketchup is milk. Water is milk.”
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 22, 2019 | miCRo
The narrator wants us to look at her hair, at its future length and sheen, but her revelation about an old friend points us to a far darker theme.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 20, 2019 | Why We Like It
Editorial Assistant Jason Namey: I always love when authors use language in unexpected ways, but I especially love when authors—such as Adam Latham, in his story “The Goddamn Sorcerer of Love” from issue 16.1 (read an excerpt here)—do this right from the opening sentence.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 15, 2019 | miCRo
In “Nocturne,” Claire Wahmanholm beckons our attention to the lives, both around us and within us, that bloom in darkness.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 15, 2024 | Contests
Submissions to our annual contest are open.
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