Last call for the Robert and Adele Schiff Award! Contest closes this Wednesday at 11:59 pm. Send us your best work for a chance to win $1000 and publication.

"My true north has nothing to do with audience, but is about my own vision for my art, myself, and my joyful process of making." Today on the site, contributor Eric Weiskott speaks with poet and contributor @victoriachang.bsky.social, whose new book, TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, is out this week. Link below.

We secretly opened up miCRo last week for a very short, exclusive, and fabulous submission period. miCRo is OPEN until we hit 300 submissions, so get your best 500-word pieces in ASAP!

"How beautiful were those documents that organized the learning we would do in a class. I still love to look at them." Today on the site, 2025 Robert and Adele Schiff Award-winner Jessica Cuello shares some of the documents that inspired her prize-winning essay. Link in thread.

Be sure to bookmark our #PrideMonth reading list for year-round reading recommendations from lit mags and indie presses: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Congratulations to contributor B. Do, whose miCRo, "Revision," was selected by contributor @andrewporter01.bsky.social for inclusion in this year's @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50!

Congratulations to contributor Adam Scheffler on this month's publication of SO THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE: EMPATHY IN THE POETRY OF JAMES WRIGHT with @lsupress.bsky.social! buff.ly/Isq5yfT

"I’m wondering whatever happened to compassion/for that box of seconds picked up at the farmers market to make into sauce . . ." In today's miCRo, D. Dina Friedman extols the beauty and diversity of the tomato, one of the garden's most complex crops. Link in thread.

“We are used to being invisible in math classes. As early as elementary school, mathematics erased us, all the problems about trains or trucks, billiards or bowling, boys named Bobby and Dave..." @sfmontgomery.bsky.social's essay "Handprints," is our special web feature this week! Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor Scott Beal on this week's release of STEGOSAURUS MOON with Dzanc Books!

"I’d build a cathedral to touching, all pinnacles and arcs." In today's miCRo, Lyn Li Che reminds us of how we can be surrounded by others and still be lonely. Link in thread.

Our beloved Lisa Ampleman is moving into a leadership role with our sister press, @acrebooks.bsky.social. We're so excited for everything she will do for the press and can't wait to see what comes next for her. But...that means we're looking for a new Managing Editor! Application in thread.

"nightly departure into the dreaming water made of wave forms oscillating in to the body’s container..." In this week's miCRo, "Traversing Floodwaters In Helios’s Cup" by @lowermelody.bsky.social, an enigmatic poem puzzles the classical. Read the full poem at our site. Link in thread.

“The wolf explores the house, but then he remembers there’s something much more interesting outside, and it would make more sense to read the book later, so he leaves and does not think about the house again, because he is on the trail of blackberries” The gentle micro story we all deserve. 🩶

Extremely happy to have my very weird story, "The Route," appear in this spring's issue of @cincinnatireview.bsky.social. Dream journal. An eager reader stole my contributors copies right from the envelope (!), so I'm still waiting to see it print, but soon! www.cincinnatireview.com/issues/issue...

Robert and Adele Schiff Awards @cincinnatireview.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to fee-based submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Awards! Three awards of $1000, one each for fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. Entry fee is $25, which includes a 1-yr subscription. Read more guidelines on the blog today! Link in thread.

"Really, how many of us have spent the entire weekend in one pair of sweatpants, lounging around the house, putting off chores, or nursing a recent breakup." @stdougherty.bsky.social writes about his experiences at work, a residential facility for traumatic brain injuries. Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor Carl Dennis on today's release of "Earthly Virtues" with @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

“The little patience I have, I learn from a mango tree. In Bangalore’s monsoon thunderstorms I stand with my grandmother, face tilted to the leafy sky…” —“Mango Season” by Preeti Talwai, in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social #APAHeritageMonth www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/mango...

The Schiff Awards are open! The Schiff Awards are open! Spring is springing! Win $1000 and publication in CR! Contest closes July 15. Link in thread.

Today on the site, Arah Ko shares four stunning poetry collections that honor rage—especially the feminine variety—to keep you company in the sauna of summer. Link in thread.

Check out one of our 2026 Poetry Selections, "Revision" by B. Do (The Cincinnati Review), selected by Cyrus Cassells on bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-poetry/revision/ #bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist

"Fiddlehead godhead maidenhead furred tendril up from ankle-deep bed, I unkneel moment by moment..." This week's miCRo, "Born Again" by Linda Parsons, is perfect for the season. Read the full essay on our site--link in thread.

"I remember wanting two specific things in the poem: the tradition of that intentional beginning of slave narratives ('I was born') and clear, deliberate, declarative speech." Stephen Foster Smith tells us about his poem "The Yam Reflects" in our spring issue. Link in thread.

"How many / bags, I wondered, would my life fit inside?" This week's miCRo is a short poem by Chelsea Rathburn that exhibits empathy for the woman of the title. Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor Lauren E. Osborn on the publication of ENTOMOLOGY OF THE PINUP GIRL with Dzanc Books!

“‘You ready?’ the phlebotomist asks, holding out two vials. I nod and joke, ‘Sure, I’ve got enough.'” —Julia Kolchinsky’s essay “Of Blood & God & Dirt” in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/of-...

"Sometimes a poem is wearing too much makeup or too many jewels, and it needs one item removed before it leaves the house." Today on the site we speak to poet Gordon Taylor about his piece, "Memory Foam," in our upcoming issue. Link in thread.

"I’m a head with a buzz cut, rolling past, trying not to stall in the road on the way to my university astronomy class, when I’m compelled to stop and check on my body." In today's miCRo by @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social, the mental and the physical are at odds. Link in thread.

“If after a bad night I need someone to blame, there are so many candidates.” —Carol Dorf’s “Conditional,” published in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social & featured in our reading list for #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth: www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/condi...

" . . . Modernist aesthetics, figurative language and the like weren’t capable of holding my pathos, let alone rage." Today on the site, contributor and emerging writer @gavinopoet.bsky.social talks to us about two works that appear in issue 22.2. Link in thread.

"I raised you to believe you deserved to win, but you didn’t always listen when I taught you how." This week's miCRo, "Ace of Hearts" by Julia Hou, stages the multiplicity of grief as a final, intimate game between father and daughter. Link in thread.

Congratulations to CR summer editor Arah Ko on today's publication of ANIMAL LOGIC with @bullcitypress.com !

Just found this by @addisonzeller.bsky.social via Bess Winter of @cincinnatireview.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social interview… It was worth it! How the millennium bug made survivalism mainstream… And read by Addison too.

Congratulations to Adam Tavel on today's release of THE GHOST-STAR KING with The Word Works! buff.ly/cDErOX9

"Sending out work is a vulnerable process! So, I really do strive to read everything with care...seeing so many different styles, experiments, loci in slush makes me bolder as a writer, more expansive." Kate Jayroe and Andy Sia discuss their work at CR. Link in thread.

"Clawing our way forward. House by house. 'One at a time, all the way to Mariupol,' Bohdan used to say." This week's miCRo, chosen in part by a class from Amsterdam University College, is "House by House" by @lathamwithapen.bsky.social, which focuses on memory as fragmentary. Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor James Ciano whose collection, THE COMMITTEE OF MEN, is out today from @boa-editions.bsky.social !

@ifkexists Carol Dorf's miCRo, "Conditional," patiently scrutinizes then ruptures expected notions surrounding cause and effect. Link in thread.

Next week, @kathryncowles.bsky.social and Donald Revell read in University of Cincinnati's Elliston Room. Ahead of that, hear their advice for newer writers, craft suggestions, and more. Link in thread.

"We call this pipe cleaning in my household, any time we ingest whole-grain-this or dark-leafy-green-that, to inject some levity into this public health crisis . . ." In this week's miCRo, Anastasia Nikolis investigates a public health crisis. Link in thread.

Congratulations to all of our contributors who have new books out this week! Celebrating work by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social , Chrissy Martin, Sara Elkamel, and Matthew Buckley Smith.

“(We see a house filled with moving boxes and one naked light bulb on the ceiling. We hear the last moments of rain. A small shadow moves...” Read an excerpt from Sadieh Rifai's play THE CAVE in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social! #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/fro...

We couldn't be prouder of our own literary non-fiction editor @kristeniver.bsky.social -- a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow! @guggfellows.bsky.social

Closing soon! Send us your cnf manuscripts! 📚🖊️

Our latest in our Emerging Writers interview series features Siobhan Jean-Charles, whose poems "Ode to Freeze Spell" and "Springfield Ghazal" appear in our upcoming spring issue. Link in thread.

“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 !