As 2023 draws to a close, our editors are honored to have had the chance to sit down with the superb work published in both the print edition of The Cincinnati Review and in miCRo over the course of the year. We’re proud to present to you here this year’s nominees for end-of-year awards. Best of luck to all the nominees!
The Pushcart Prize
Literary Nonfiction:
Nicole Graev Lipson, “Shake Zone” (Issue 20.1, Spring 2023)
LaTanya McQueen, “Installation Piece” (Issue 20.2, Fall 2023)
Fiction:
Amanda DeMatto, “Web” (Issue 20.1, Spring 2023)
Arshia Simkin, “Fissures” (Issue 20.1, Spring 2023)
Poetry:
Karan Kapoor, “Things with which we will foul the Ganga (Issue 20.2, Fall 2023)
Lucian Mattison, “Drowned” (miCRo series, August 2, 2023)
Best Spiritual Literature
Issue 20.1 (Spring 2023):
Jake Crist, “Ash Wednesday Stanzas” (poem)
Dean Rader, “This Is No Time for Poetry,” (poem)
Matthue Roth, “The Shammes” (story)
From Issue 20.2 (Fall 2023):
Karan Kapoor, “Things with which we will foul the Ganga” (poem)
PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
Amanda DeMatto, “Web” (Issue 20.1, Spring 2023)
Alex Boeden, “Alfhild” (Issue 20.2, Fall 2023)
Best of the Net
Fiction:
Rebecca Turkewitz’s “A Queer Girl’s Guide to Reading Fairy Tales”
Nonfiction:
Amanda Galvan Huynh, “Porcelain Spoons”
Kimberly Elkins, “The Game for Winners”
Poetry:
Chiwenite Onyekwelu, “Telling It”
Christine Kwon, “On Saturn It Rains Diamonds”
Purvi Shah, “Had Penelope a kiln, she would outcast”
KB Brookins, “What’s on your mind, KB?”
