Featuring our Schiff Award winners, fiction by Zoe Ballering and Sarah Viren; literary nonfiction by Tori Malcangio and Lee Martin; poetry by Robert Cording and Stella Wong, and more.| The Cincinnati Review
Director Mark Armstrong interviews CR contributors Dan O'Brien and christopher oscar peña about their published play trilogies The post Interview with Playwrights Dan O’Brien and christopher oscar peña appeared first on The Cincinnati Review.| The Cincinnati Review
The three winners of the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards, plus words from the judges and winners, and a list of finalists The post Announcing Our 2025 Contest Winners appeared first on The Cincinnati Review.| The Cincinnati Review
22.1 contributor Zoe Ballering discusses life spans and storytelling. The post From Our Contributors: Zoe Ballering On Sand Spits and Life Spans appeared first on The Cincinnati Review.| The Cincinnati Review
A complex essay by Debra Spark in which the story told is someone else's, a woman who learns about her mother's past| The Cincinnati Review
Three Nigerian writers share their experiences of the literary culture there and here.| The Cincinnati Review
Edgar Garcia on research, collaborative listening, and dreams.| The Cincinnati Review
Ahead of this year's Visiting Writers Series, we talked to Marianne Chan, Emma Hudelson, and Maggie Su about their plans for the future.| The Cincinnati Review
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.| The Cincinnati Review
In addition to the off-kilter aesthetics and the incredible roster of badass writers, I was struck by just how dedicated and lo-fi Kitty Snacks appeared to be. 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.| The Cincinnati Review
A craft essay on how writers can best depict rural America without resorting to "poverty porn."| The Cincinnati Review
A book of nonfiction written like a novel, moving with and then past the genre of true crime| The Cincinnati Review
A family story that takes us millions of light-years away to get a closer view of home.| The Cincinnati Review
Lydia did not vacuum the floors or dust the overloaded bookshelves when the men started returning three years later, in small groups of fifty or five hundred at first. She did not stoop below her daughter’s small white desk, now the centerpiece of the family room, to gather up the tiny construction-| The Cincinnati Review
I remember the summer after Chernobyl for its fertility and vibrant colors. Whether it was due to the high levels of radiation blown toward the Crimean Peninsula by the northern winds, as my family speculated later, or to my grandfather’s tireless efforts to turn a cleared patch of clay into a kitch| The Cincinnati Review
Now you need not die again, but still I wish you were here—Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider My nephew is writing a book, he says, about Martin Luther King, Jr. “Now why would you do that?” I asked him. “Pick a topic without so much competition. Who’s going to read your book?” Ask| The Cincinnati Review - Publishing great literature and art since 2003
