Cincinnati Review

You asked, we delivered! Not only are submissions for both the journal and miCRo OPEN, but we've transitioned to Submittable! We can't wait to read what you send our way!

"I’m drawn to art that is formally or stylistically responsive to changes in history and culture . . . But I’m more interested in asking the question—what do we need now?—than in answering it." Today on the site, Mialise Carney interviews Danielle Dutton. Link in thread.

To all literary nonfiction writers: submissions to issue 23.2 are open, and LNF Editor Kristen Iversen is searching for pieces that center around the theme of "Reckoning." Send us your best work on the topic via our new Submittable portal. Link to submit in first comment.

"Another word for it, I later learn, the dark cloud surging / from the field and shitting as it heaves in sudden unity, / is crèche..." Our miCRo this week, a propulsive poem by Kylan Rice, coalesces into a felt impression of place. Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor CD Eskilon, whose translation of work by Swedish poet Edith Södergran, MODERN WOMAN, was released last week by World Poetry Books! buff.ly/4C9Q20N

Bella Gibb’s “In Transit” begins, “I try to picture them all as babies. Whenever my stomach lurches around a man, I remind myself he once toddled around in diapers, loved a mother…” Read the essay in @CincinnReview for #WomensHistoryMonth: cincinnatireview.com/micros/micro-i…

So many wonderful contributor books launching this week and last! Congratulations to Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Matthew Pitt, @MayaJZeller, and Lesley Jenike on their newly released titles.

We can’t believe it’s already the last day of the #awp2026 bookfair! Drop by booth 1065 for 25% off our swag and a last chance to try the Manifestation Machine!

Speak with our genre editors today in AWP booth 1065! Catch Fiction Editor Michael Griffith between 9:30am and 10:30am, and Poetry Editor Rebecca Lindenberg from 11am-1pm!

We're in the midst of setting up our booth at the AWP bookfair today, and we're hyped about our new swag featuring our mascots on a sturdy mini-tote! Grab 'em while they're hot!

Ever heard of a Manifestation Machine? Find it, and many other delights, in booth 1065 at the AWP bookfair. Our official guide to The Cincinnati Review at AWP Baltimore is live! buff.ly/mouGKWK

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"You pointed: pink cumulus on the horizon like an omen of apocalypse. Sheep like fallen clouds on the hills." In this week's miCRo by @katzwords, a search for a petrified log leads to an unexpected, other discovery. Link in thread.

Readings from @djpoissant, @stellayywong, and more!

Please join us for our miCRo-themed AWP offsite event, An Evening of Flash Lit! When: Wednesday, March 4, 7:00-8:30 pm Where: Max's Taphouse, 737 S Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231 (30-minute walk from the convention center or a 13-minute drive) Drinks and mingling to follow!

Congratulations to contributor @MickiePoet, whose collection, WORTH BURNING, is released today by Black Lawrence Press. buff.ly/5GcBUcJ

"There was a real chance this book never would have made it into print at all. Small publishers made it happen..." PEN-nominated short-story writer (and former CR editor!) Christian Moody discusses his book *Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds* (Dzanc Books). Link in thread.