Category: Submission Trends and Tips
Trends & Tips: What We’re Seeing
Some recent submission trends to avoid if you’d like your submission to stand out from the crowd
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Our Top Three Submission-Etiquette Reminders
Our top 3 tips for impressing lit mags by following through on withdrawals, email correspondence, and submission guidelines.
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On Building a Poetry Manuscript for Publication
How can you make your poetry book manuscript stand out in the crowd?
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Is Your Poem Ready for Submitting?
In order to gather a wider range of perspectives on this question, I reached out to some Cincinnati Review contributors about when it’s time to gather your work and hit “submit.”
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Common Mistakes When Writing Dialogue (and how to avoid them)
Strong dialogue forwards plot, it demonstrates the nature of relationships, and it also (paradoxically) highlights what characters can’t or won’t say to one another.
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Making a Better Submission Spreadsheet
You can find online resources on formatting your submission, what to write in a cover letter, and tips on submission strategies, but not as much on how to create a user-friendly submission spreadsheet. Read more for tips and perspectives from CR staff and former contributors!
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Trends and Tips: On Deepening Settings
Setting isn’t just a stage upon which our characters walk; it is part of the bones of the story itself.
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Trends and Tips: Who’s On First?
The beauty of first-person narration lies in its complexity.
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Tips and Tricks: Submitting Like a Pro
Whether you’re new to submitting to literary journals or you’re a seasoned submitter, it’s always nice to have a refresher on how to professionalize your submission.
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The Short of It
What makes a great short poem, and why are they so challenging?
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Debunking miCRo Myths
I came across many well-meaning flash fiction “Do and Don’t” lists all of which managed, without fail, to piss me off.
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Trends and Tips: Writing Disability
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.
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