“Ballooning into a sky that now forgets To be anything but gray. All the red that wants to be the dark. Give me another Screen. Give me another lens…” —“Flame” by Anaya Marei in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/flame/

"Martha / organizes last death. / Better left untranslated." This week in miCRo, Aaliyah Anderson explores strange communions with the dead in a poem after Martha the last passenger pigeon. Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social on today's release of "Cloudwatcher" from @ampoetryreview.bsky.social !

"I followed memoir the way that a poet would do it, which is to offer another lensing or another redefinition of what the genre is doing." Today on the site, Erica Reid interviews contributor Maya Jewell Zeller about her new memoir, "Raised by Ferns." Link in thread.

"We apprenticed together / until morning touched our slouched / shoulders. Continued even when ants / punctuated the table in summer." In this week's miCRo, Hana Widerman offers a searing, colorful meditation on the past. Link in thread.

Celebrating a host of new publications from our contributors Gaylord Brewer, Tracy Zeman, @catherinepierce.bsky.social, and Rose McLarney.

As we near the end of Women's History Month, why not check out the work of our contributors A.A. Balaskovits, Bella Gibb and Shikhandin in the @clmporg.bsky.social Women's History Month reading list?

Shikhandin’s story “Ma’s Soul” begins, “One of these days, my soul is going to walk out on me. I’m sure of it. That damn soul is going to go someplace else.” Read the story from our #WomensHistoryMonth list in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social: www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/mas-s...

"Afterworld or nightclub: each of those low arrivals gets me high. Sublime!" On the site today, Joyelle McSweeney discusses ecstatic dismay and survival, style, writing influences, and more. Link in thread.

To all the writers: thank you for your overwhelming response to our call for submissions. We've reached our cap! Stay tuned for further calls and our Robert and Adele Schiff Prize!

Congratulations to miCRo contributor B. Do for the inclusion of "Revision" in BOTN!

In today's miCRo, Kelle Groom highlights the emotional journeys associated with grief. Link in thread.

"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.

Congrats to Acre author @thejs3.bsky.social whose #novel, DEFIANT ACTS, is a #ForewordINDIE Finalist in the category of #fiction (multicultural)! 🎉🎉🎉 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

"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, picks up on an array of material textures and 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 @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social !

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!

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 @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for #WomensHistoryMonth: www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/micro...

So many wonderful contributor books launching this week and last! Congratulations to Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Matthew Pitt, Maya Jewell Zeller, and @equitation.bsky.social on their newly released titles. @cmupress.bsky.social @porphyrypress.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

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

"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 Ariel Katz, a search for a petrified log leads to an unexpected, other discovery. Link in thread.

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.bsky.social whose collection, WORTH BURNING, is released today by @blacklawrence.bsky.social

"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) and more. Link in thread.

In today's miCRo, Leila Karpuzi urges us to reconsider some family traditions. Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social on the publication of IT'S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER from @nupress.bsky.social

"Some writers are interested in character, some in place or plot, but I’m most interested in relationships." On the site, Associate Editor Kate Jayroe interviews @riggstah.bsky.social, author of Extinction Capital of the World. Link in thread.

This week in miCRo, @foreverasheley.bsky.social reimagines the diary form to explore the contours of desire and intimacy following violence. Link in thread.

This week we're celebrating the publication of UNDERSEA by the late Maureen Seaton, a CR contributor, with @jacklegpress.bsky.social

Our latest in the Writers' Day Jobs series features Alice McCormick, a writer and small animal veterinarian. Link in thread.

"Give me another / Screen. Give me another lens / Through which to see this falling apart. A flag to imagine / My country onto." In this week's miCRo, Anaya Marei stunningly captures the raw enormity of grief. Link in thread.

Congratulations to former CR editor Lily Meyer on today's release of THE END OF ROMANCE with @vikingbooks.bsky.social !

"A book isn’t just words tossed into the ether. The choices made around how to contain those words matter, too. The artistic intent stretches beyond the ephemeral." On our site now: Editorial Assistant Emma Johnson-Rivard explores the look and feel of books from the shelf. Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor Michael Chitwood on the publication of A DAY OF IT with @lsupress.bsky.social !

"It was one of those drinking games. You go around the table, and each person says which memory they’d borrow from a parent to embody." Today's miCRo, "Heart" by @djpoissant.bsky.social, shows how information can be revealed slowly and deliberately in flash fiction. Link in thread.

"A flash story is the perfect size to enjoy with your morning cup of coffee—instead of, y’know, beginning the doomscroll that will carry you (read: me) through to lunchtime." On our site now: Editorial Assistant Dana Jean Rider recommends flash fiction with miCRo companions! Link in thread.

"Let the mystery go by, we'll wave and wink at it." Resonances and dissonances abound in this week's miCRo by DULSE (a collaboration between Lee Deigaard and @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social). Link in thread.

"Perhaps I knew, on some level, that writing about letting go would force me to [let go]." Today on the site, contributor Natalie Villacorta talks about how to let go in your writing process. Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor Catherine Pierce on the publication of FOXES FOR EVERYBODY from Northwestern University Press!

"One pleasure for me in puzzles is discovering I know things I didn't realize I knew." New to the site: our own Fiction Editor Michael Griffith, an accomplished cruciverbalist, interviews natanlast.bsky.social, crossword constructor for @nytimes.com and @newyorker.com. buff.ly/z7UVdDc

"Reaching through the slot was a violation, and when I crossed into that space, I was possessed by something." Raul Palma on the uncanny in our recent Horror Folio. Link in thread.

Acre Books is reading queries and submissions for #poetry manuscripts during the month of January. To learn more, visit acre-books.com/submissions/. 📚🖊️ #booksky

The Northwest Review is alive and now on Bluesky. We are reviving this historically great magazine in 2026. We are now open for submissions. Send us your best fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. northwestreview.submittable.com/submit

"Sometimes I feel like I’ve trapped him like something dangerous that must be kept under lock and key, a bodiless entity living inside my device..." @richardscottlarson.com reviews Wes Jamison's MY CORPSE INSIDE in our recent Horror Folio. Link in thread.

"In dreams it feels natural to make terrible decisions, evil decisions, careless decisions, or have no decisions to make at all..." @gingerko.bsky.social reviews Daisuke Shen’s VAGUE PREDICTIONS AND PROPHECIES in our recent Horror Folio. Link in thread.

"How do you write a story your characters aren’t supposed to tell?" On our site now: Editorial Assistant Mialise Carney reviews @nassos.bsky.social 's *Sour Cherry* (@tinhouse.bsky.social), a reimagining of Bluebeard stories. Link in thread.