We've reached our May submissions cap already! Thank you for sending us your wonderful work. We look forward to reading it over the summer. We are now CLOSED to general print submissions until September 1. Keep an eye out for our summer contest!

'Falling in with you again . . . , well, every time feels like plummeting down a sinkhole, or tumbling into a well without wishing, or riding in an old mine elevator.'

This week's miCRo is by @pamela12345:

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Congratulations to CR contributor Norman Finkelstein for his inclusion in CLMP's excellent #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth list!

Congratulations to our Assistant Managing Editor Bess Winter, who has been awarded this year’s Sandra Carpenter Memorial Fund Ohio Writers Scholarship to the Stockholm Writers Festival in support of her novel-in-progress! buff.ly/3wdEKQJ

In the first installment of her new column documenting CR's web redesign, Assistant Managing Editor Bess Winter argues that more literary journals should embrace UX. buff.ly/3UmVnkJ

Celebrate the first day of #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth with us by picking reads from Alice James Books, Cincinnati Review, Hanging Loose Press, 🇵🇸 manywor(l)ds :: place | ISSUE 4 DROPS 5/15, Perugia Press, SmokeLong Quarterly & more publishers! Then bookmark for year-round reading: clmp.org/news/a-reading…

All my thanks to Lisa Ampleman & @CinnReview for publishing this flash essay on my friendship with Laura Palma who died 22 years ago this month, but here we are together...
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'Laura had an interview at a topless bar on Orange Blossom Trail. Just bartending, but I couldn’t let her go alone . . .'

@kellegroom's flash essay on a friendship uses time in a way that enriches the narrative:

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Be sure to browse and bookmark our #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth reading list—featuring Cincinnati Review, apublicspace, Arrowsmith Press, Exposition Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Georgia Review, The Rumpus, & more publishers: clmp.org/news/a-reading…

Don't miss Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman as she entertains us in podcast form!

Last call! Acre Books is seeking full manuscripts from BIPOC authors of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. 📚🖊️🎉 Deadline: May 1. acre-books.com/submissions/

'What did the hyphen do to deserve this isolation? Does it harbor a contagious illness, like some typographic Typhoid Mary?'

In her new column's first post, assistant editor Lily Davenport surveys the Chicago Manual of Style's guidelines for compounds: buff.ly/4at8Y0P

It's FUR-iday, when we feature one of our editors' beloved pets! Today we meet Lisa Ampleman's guinea pigs, Clover, Midnight, and Checkerboard! From Lisa: 'Their favorite CR issue is 1.2, because there's a lot of edible items. That's all they really care about (eating).'

New book alert from our Poetry Editor Rebecca Lindenberg !

This piece is very close to my soul, many thanks to the editors of Cincinnati Review for giving it a home!

Special call for submissions for full-length manuscripts from BIPOC authors! Deadline: May 1. acre-books.com/submissions/📚🖊️🎉

'I take the cup from him and brew another in apology as the men commend him for raising me to respect authority...'

In this week's miCRo, Bibi B challenges the erasure of women's voices and lived experiences in literature and the home. buff.ly/3W1mXqj

'I love how writing is a way that generations speak to each other, how the beginning of the 19th century speaks to us through its poetry, its novels...'

A conversation with Kevin Prufer, author of the new novel SLEEPAWAY from Acre Books.

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Congratulations to contributor and former Poet Laureate of Cincinnati Pauletta Hansel on today's release of WILL THERE ALSO BE SINGING? with Shadelandhouse! buff.ly/3WbLw3P