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V. Hansmann, "Innkeeper" at Prospect Street Writers House, tells us what it takes to run a residency for writers.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
V. Hansmann, "Innkeeper" at Prospect Street Writers House, tells us what it takes to run a residency for writers.
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"My mother could swallow insults whole like a crocodile."
Georgi Bargamian's miCRo enchants with its incantatory, riddle-like charms, swirling from line to line. Link in thread.
Georgi Bargamian's miCRo enchants with its incantatory, riddle-like charms, swirling from line to line. Link in thread.
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"My mother could swallow insults whole like a crocodile."
Georgi Bargamian's miCRo enchants with its incantatory, riddle-like charms, swirling from line to line. Link in thread.
Georgi Bargamian's miCRo enchants with its incantatory, riddle-like charms, swirling from line to line. Link in thread.
We're delighted to announce our 2025 nominees for Best of the Net. Congratulations to all, and good luck! @Talkinghyphae.bsky.social @cberwick.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
We're delighted to announce our 2025 nominees for Best of the Net. Congratulations to all, and good luck! @Talkinghyphae.bsky.social @cberwick.bsky.social
You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.
"This liminal mood would spill into the house itself, no longer a constrained space, but porous and crackling with dangerous possibilities."
This week on site, Associate Editor Andy Sia explores eerie and liminal spaces in a Halloween feature.
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This week on site, Associate Editor Andy Sia explores eerie and liminal spaces in a Halloween feature.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"This liminal mood would spill into the house itself, no longer a constrained space, but porous and crackling with dangerous possibilities."
This week on site, Associate Editor Andy Sia explores eerie and liminal spaces in a Halloween feature.
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This week on site, Associate Editor Andy Sia explores eerie and liminal spaces in a Halloween feature.
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"For a decade I carry the rotting mango, its pit humming with maggots. I cannot rid myself of it, I cannot glance away."
What happens when something goes from delicious to sickeningly sweet? Preeti Talwai's miCRo has all the answers! Link in thread.
What happens when something goes from delicious to sickeningly sweet? Preeti Talwai's miCRo has all the answers! Link in thread.
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"For a decade I carry the rotting mango, its pit humming with maggots. I cannot rid myself of it, I cannot glance away."
What happens when something goes from delicious to sickeningly sweet? Preeti Talwai's miCRo has all the answers! Link in thread.
What happens when something goes from delicious to sickeningly sweet? Preeti Talwai's miCRo has all the answers! Link in thread.
"We’re taught that disability is tragic, sad, and maybe inspiring. But comedy is the genre of survival."
Today on the site, contributor Anya Groner interviews @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social about his new novel, RANGE OF MOTION.
Today on the site, contributor Anya Groner interviews @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social about his new novel, RANGE OF MOTION.
October 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"We’re taught that disability is tragic, sad, and maybe inspiring. But comedy is the genre of survival."
Today on the site, contributor Anya Groner interviews @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social about his new novel, RANGE OF MOTION.
Today on the site, contributor Anya Groner interviews @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social about his new novel, RANGE OF MOTION.
"That damn soul is going to go someplace else. It’s going to shrug me off the way we shrug off our raincoats, overcoats, and Ulster coats."
This week's miCRo by Shikhandin pays mind to possession: what we own, what we do not own, and what we feel owed to.
This week's miCRo by Shikhandin pays mind to possession: what we own, what we do not own, and what we feel owed to.
October 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"That damn soul is going to go someplace else. It’s going to shrug me off the way we shrug off our raincoats, overcoats, and Ulster coats."
This week's miCRo by Shikhandin pays mind to possession: what we own, what we do not own, and what we feel owed to.
This week's miCRo by Shikhandin pays mind to possession: what we own, what we do not own, and what we feel owed to.
Congratulations to contributor Paula Bohince on today's publication of A VIOLENCE with @princetonupress.bsky.social !
A Violence
A reckoning with psychological and ecological crises from a poet whose work has been praised as “beautiful and riveting” (Los Angeles Review of Books)
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October 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Congratulations to contributor Paula Bohince on today's publication of A VIOLENCE with @princetonupress.bsky.social !
Congratulations to former CR editor @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social . His much-anticipated debut novel, RANGE OF MOTION, publishes today with our friends at @acrebooks.bsky.social .
Range of Motion
A tender, wrenching, and comic novel that follows two twin boys from infancy to the cusp of adulthood. Twin A and Twin B. That’s what Michael and Sal’s neuroscientist father irreverently calls them.…
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October 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Congratulations to former CR editor @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social . His much-anticipated debut novel, RANGE OF MOTION, publishes today with our friends at @acrebooks.bsky.social .
Congratulations to former CR editor AND contributor Christian Moody on today's release of LOST IN THE FOREST OF MECHANICAL BIRDS, the winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize!
Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds by Christian Moody — Dzanc Books
For fans of George Saunders and Haruki Murakami, Christian Moody delivers his debut speculative short story collection, Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds ––tales of the strange beauty and…
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October 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Congratulations to former CR editor AND contributor Christian Moody on today's release of LOST IN THE FOREST OF MECHANICAL BIRDS, the winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize!
Playwrights (and CR contribs!) @bydanobrien.bsky.social and christopher oscar peña in conversation with director and producer @markarmstrong4.bsky.social about the two's recently published play trilogies and more. Link in first comment:
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Playwrights (and CR contribs!) @bydanobrien.bsky.social and christopher oscar peña in conversation with director and producer @markarmstrong4.bsky.social about the two's recently published play trilogies and more. Link in first comment:
"I won't call it a detonator. But after pressing the button, I scamper around the refrigerator, taking cover behind layers of sheet metal and white plastic finish from the machine's invisible munitions."
In a miCRo essay, @ellenkfee.bsky.social takes us on a tour of the microwave's origin.
In a miCRo essay, @ellenkfee.bsky.social takes us on a tour of the microwave's origin.
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"I won't call it a detonator. But after pressing the button, I scamper around the refrigerator, taking cover behind layers of sheet metal and white plastic finish from the machine's invisible munitions."
In a miCRo essay, @ellenkfee.bsky.social takes us on a tour of the microwave's origin.
In a miCRo essay, @ellenkfee.bsky.social takes us on a tour of the microwave's origin.
Congratulations to contributor @amitmajmudar.bsky.social -- his new book, THREE METAMORPHOSES: NOVELLAS IN VERSE AND PROSE was released last week by Orison Books!
Three Metamorphoses: Novellas in Verse & Prose by Amit Majmudar | Orison Books
Three Metamorphoses: Novellas in Verse & Proseby Amit Majmudar Orison Bookspaper / 274 pp. / $20.00ISBN: 978-1-949039-62-7Distributed to the trade by Itasca Books952-223-8373 / …
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October 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Congratulations to contributor @amitmajmudar.bsky.social -- his new book, THREE METAMORPHOSES: NOVELLAS IN VERSE AND PROSE was released last week by Orison Books!
The 2025 winners of the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards are:
Robert Sorrell Bynum (fiction) for "Like a Star"
@jessicacuello.bsky.social (literary nonfiction) for "Your Life for Another"
A. D. Lauren-Abunassar (poetry) for "Three Bombardments"
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Robert Sorrell Bynum (fiction) for "Like a Star"
@jessicacuello.bsky.social (literary nonfiction) for "Your Life for Another"
A. D. Lauren-Abunassar (poetry) for "Three Bombardments"
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October 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The 2025 winners of the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards are:
Robert Sorrell Bynum (fiction) for "Like a Star"
@jessicacuello.bsky.social (literary nonfiction) for "Your Life for Another"
A. D. Lauren-Abunassar (poetry) for "Three Bombardments"
See our site for more! Link in first comment.
Robert Sorrell Bynum (fiction) for "Like a Star"
@jessicacuello.bsky.social (literary nonfiction) for "Your Life for Another"
A. D. Lauren-Abunassar (poetry) for "Three Bombardments"
See our site for more! Link in first comment.
As September draws to a close, we celebrate the inclusion of CR contributors (and a former editor!) in lists from @clmporg.bsky.social. Check out work by @cdonosowriter.bsky.social , @memi-writes.bsky.social , Inger Christensen, and José Angel Araguz!
September 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
As September draws to a close, we celebrate the inclusion of CR contributors (and a former editor!) in lists from @clmporg.bsky.social. Check out work by @cdonosowriter.bsky.social , @memi-writes.bsky.social , Inger Christensen, and José Angel Araguz!
Now on our site, three writers from Nigeria share their experiences of the literary culture there and in the US. Thanks to Frances Ogamba, Hussain Ahmed, and KÁNYIN Olorunnisola! Link in thread.
September 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Now on our site, three writers from Nigeria share their experiences of the literary culture there and in the US. Thanks to Frances Ogamba, Hussain Ahmed, and KÁNYIN Olorunnisola! Link in thread.
"...even if the task is to leap across the aporia or the big vacuous gap, if that is the task that sits before you, then that is your task."
Today on the site, Edgar Garcia discusses research, collaborative listening, and dreams.
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Today on the site, Edgar Garcia discusses research, collaborative listening, and dreams.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"...even if the task is to leap across the aporia or the big vacuous gap, if that is the task that sits before you, then that is your task."
Today on the site, Edgar Garcia discusses research, collaborative listening, and dreams.
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Today on the site, Edgar Garcia discusses research, collaborative listening, and dreams.
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The Art of Editing with The Cincinnati Review
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September 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"...sometimes I dream about her thigh tattoo: 'Call your mother,' inked in curling script above a dolphin with an M16 clutched in its tiny, perfect flippers."
This week's miCRo by Sarah Chin navigates the sticky terrain of grief.
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This week's miCRo by Sarah Chin navigates the sticky terrain of grief.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"...sometimes I dream about her thigh tattoo: 'Call your mother,' inked in curling script above a dolphin with an M16 clutched in its tiny, perfect flippers."
This week's miCRo by Sarah Chin navigates the sticky terrain of grief.
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This week's miCRo by Sarah Chin navigates the sticky terrain of grief.
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Congratulations to contributor @mardery.bsky.social ! Her collection LEVEL WATCH is released today from @juneroadpress.bsky.social .
Level Watch — June Road Press
A poetry collection by Mary Ardery
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September 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Congratulations to contributor @mardery.bsky.social ! Her collection LEVEL WATCH is released today from @juneroadpress.bsky.social .
This evening at 5:30 pm in the Elliston Room we have the privilege of hosting three very successful UC creative writing alumni: @mariannelchan.bsky.social , @litmagreject.bsky.social , and Emma Hudelson. Assistant Editor Blessing Christopher asked each of them about legacy.
September 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This evening at 5:30 pm in the Elliston Room we have the privilege of hosting three very successful UC creative writing alumni: @mariannelchan.bsky.social , @litmagreject.bsky.social , and Emma Hudelson. Assistant Editor Blessing Christopher asked each of them about legacy.
"Clear. Nuclear. Like the Visible Woman in her plexiglass-clear skin once lied to me I wouldn’t grow to be. One button for her heart to light up red. One for the nervy, branching rivers in her head."
Alexandra Teague floods nervy, hot branches of language in this week's miCRo.
Alexandra Teague floods nervy, hot branches of language in this week's miCRo.
September 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"Clear. Nuclear. Like the Visible Woman in her plexiglass-clear skin once lied to me I wouldn’t grow to be. One button for her heart to light up red. One for the nervy, branching rivers in her head."
Alexandra Teague floods nervy, hot branches of language in this week's miCRo.
Alexandra Teague floods nervy, hot branches of language in this week's miCRo.
A very special congratulations today to two friends of the magazine: former Assistant Editor @hollicarrell.bsky.social 's debut, APOSTASIES, releases today from @perugiapress.bsky.social , alongside contributor (& former UC faculty member) Brock Clarke's SPECIAL ELECTION from @acrebooks.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A very special congratulations today to two friends of the magazine: former Assistant Editor @hollicarrell.bsky.social 's debut, APOSTASIES, releases today from @perugiapress.bsky.social , alongside contributor (& former UC faculty member) Brock Clarke's SPECIAL ELECTION from @acrebooks.bsky.social
"We know that literary journals often come from a deep place of admiration and love, and to see this piece of literary past is akin to napping under a handmade quilt, hearing an old 45 as it spins, taking a sip of localized, antiquated soda."
September 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"We know that literary journals often come from a deep place of admiration and love, and to see this piece of literary past is akin to napping under a handmade quilt, hearing an old 45 as it spins, taking a sip of localized, antiquated soda."