Category: On Craft

From Our Contributors: The Button Box

Posted by Lisa Ampleman | Mar 14, 2025 | From our Contributors, On Craft | 0

Reading Between the Pages

Posted by Andy Sia | Feb 28, 2025 | On Craft | 0

Narrative Tension in Fiction

Posted by Kate Jayroe | Feb 7, 2025 | On Craft | 0

“Violence or Voice? Why Erasure Poetry”...

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Jan 31, 2025 | On Craft | 0

On Craft: Rebecca Bernard on Plotting Character

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Dec 20, 2024 | From our Contributors, On Craft | 0

Fiction Craft and Film

Posted by Kate Jayroe | Nov 22, 2024 | On Craft | 0

From Our Contributors: The Button Box

by Lisa Ampleman | Mar 14, 2025 | From our Contributors, On Craft | 0

Contributor Cristi Donoso on encouraging her son’s creativity through an art cart and button box.

Reading Between the Pages

by Andy Sia | Feb 28, 2025 | On Craft | 0

Assistant Editor Andy Sia on reading surfaces and reading as an embodied act.

Narrative Tension in Fiction

by Kate Jayroe | Feb 7, 2025 | On Craft | 0

The more I consider craft, the more I think we’re studying how to identify and harness wondrous paradoxes of creativity.

“Violence or Voice? Why Erasure Poetry” by Arah Ko

by Cincinnati Review | Jan 31, 2025 | On Craft | 0

Editorial Assistant Arah Ko on the ethics and craft of erasure poetry.

On Craft: Rebecca Bernard on Plotting Character

by Cincinnati Review | Dec 20, 2024 | From our Contributors, On Craft | 0

A craft exercise about how to understand character through plot and vice versa

Fiction Craft and Film

by Kate Jayroe | Nov 22, 2024 | On Craft | 0

Image courtesy of Jeremy Yap via Unsplash Assistant Editor Kate Jayroe: Imagine that you’re...

Craft Musings on Beginnings and More, from Our Editors

by Cincinnati Review | Sep 6, 2024 | Editors' Dispatches, On Craft | 0

Three of our editors on the craft of beginnings and more

Hawks and Walkaways: How Nature Can Aid Revision

by Cincinnati Review | Apr 5, 2024 | From our Contributors, On Craft | 0

“Not everyone will walk away from a computer into the vast outdoors and find help from a hawk. But over time, these ‘focused walkaways,’ which were first unexpected distractions, have become a scheduled part of my practice, my discipline.”

Getting Away with It: Epistolary Fiction

by Lily Davenport | Sep 22, 2023 | On Craft | 0

The epistolary toolkit is a rich and varied one—it insists on the reader’s interpretive participation, and offers powerful methods for developing character and setting and for playing with the progression of time. So: what, supposedly, is wrong with it?