The Cincinnati Review

We’re dicing watermelons, applying sunscreen, and enjoying the late sunsets of June in the Northern Hemisphere, which means it’s also time to accept submissions to the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards. We’ll be giving out three $1,000 prizes—one each for fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry—and all entries will be considered for publication...

I feel like every time I read the news these days, I log off steaming. There’s so much to be angry about, and with record-breaking heat waves in the Eastern United States, we’re sweltering outside and inside. While I was stewing in front of an AC unit and mulling over some poems, I thought, why not embrace the heat? The anger and the temperature. CR contributor

Associate Editor Andy Sia: We noticed a number of writers in our recent issue who are in relatively early stages of their publishing career, and reached out to chat with them as a part of our emerging writers series. In a sense, writers are always “emerging,” given the constant self-discovery and self-transformation that happen throughout any craft process. F...

Associate Editor Andy Sia: We noticed a number of writers in our recent issue who are in relatively early stages of their publishing career, and reached out to chat with them as a part of our emerging writers series. In a sense, writers are always “emerging,” given the constant self-discovery and self-transformation that happen throughout any craft process. F...