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A white woman with short brown hair and glasses smiles and shows off her newly applied CR tattoo at the AWP bookfair.

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Kate, Cincinnati Review editor, stands in the booth talking to a visitor.

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!

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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!

A white person with long black fingernails wearing a silver necklace, black fisherman's sweater, jeans, and sneakers, models the CR tote by hanging it from their arm. The tote is sturdy canvas with black handles and bottom.

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!

Everything Cincinnati Review at AWP Baltimore  - The Cincinnati Review After the tremendous buzz caused by the presence of Nick Lachey at last year’s CR booth, the Imagineers at The Cincinnati Review have been busy thinking

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 Ariel Katz, a search for a petrified log leads to an unexpected, other discovery.

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Readings from @djpoissant.bsky.social , @sambranopoet.bsky.social , and more!

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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!

Worth Burning - Black Lawrence Press "The collection is at its most piercing when it operates as a dreamlike scatterplot of childhood omens…Images jut out at the reader, hyper-saturated with the intensity of childhood memory...A stark,…

Congratulations to contributor @mickiepoet.bsky.social whose collection, WORTH BURNING, is released today by @blacklawrence.bsky.social

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"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.

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

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It's Important I Remember - Northwestern University Press An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America“History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes.” In his sweeping third collecti...

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

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Author Mariah Rigg's headshot appears in the lower right corner. Above is a quotation from her interview: "Some writers are interested in character, some in place or plot, but I’m most interested in relationships."

"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.

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A graphic with the text, "Am I a liar for writing about sex that I have never had, but a type of sex I feel so strongly connected to?"

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

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Undersea Check out Undersea - <p><strong>Dive into the Depths with <em>Undersea </em></strong></p><p></p><p>Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of <em>Undersea</em>, a collection of poems by the…

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

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

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Caption from Anaya Marei's "Flame" Give me another Screen. Give me another lens Through which to see this falling apart. A flag to imagine My country onto.

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"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.

The End of Romance by Lily Meyer: 9780593835142 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant novel about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance--only to find a…

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

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"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.

A Day of It A Day of It, the ninth book of poems by Michael Chitwood, is a fanfare for the commonplace and the oft overlooked, both among places and people. In the spiri...

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

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White text on a gray background: "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. David James Poissant, 'Heart'"

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"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.

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