The Cincinnati Review

The Cincinnati Review

Discipline	literary journal
Language	English
Edited  by	Lisa Ampleman
Publication details
History	2003-present
Publisher	University of Cincinnati  (United States)
Frequency	Biannually
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Cincinnati Rev.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1546-9034
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The Cincinnati Review is a literary magazine based in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, published by the University of Cincinnati. It was founded in 2003 and features poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. ^[1] It has been listed as one of the top 50 literary magazines by Every Writer's Resource ^[2] and has published Pulitzer Prize winners and Guggenheim and MacArthur fellows. Works from The Cincinnati Review have been selected to appear in the annual anthologies Best American Poetry, Best American Essays, New Stories from the South, Best American Short Stories, Best American Fantasy, Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the Midwest, and Best Creative Non-fiction.

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• Managing editor: Lisa Ampleman
• Poetry editor: Rebecca Lindenberg
• Fiction editor: Michael Griffith
• Literary nonfiction editor: Kristen Iversen

Robert and Adele Schiff Awards

Since 2009, the magazine has honored writers annually for outstanding achievement in poetry and prose (since 2020, the prose category has been expanded to include fiction and nonfiction). The winners each receive $1,000 and are published in the magazine's prize issue. ^[3]

• Previous winners:
• 2010–Prose: Theodore Wheeler ("The Current State of the Universe"); Poetry: Ashley Seitz Kramer ("Winter Storyboard") ^[4]
• 2011–Prose: Elizabeth Cohen ("Mollusks and Optics"); Poetry: Tresha Faye Haefner ("A Walk Through the Parking Lot at Midnight") ^[5]
• 2012–Prose: Carey Cameron ("Thursday"); Poetry: Emily Hipchen ("Boy into Polished Concrete") ^[6]
• 2013–Prose: Karrie Higgins ("The Bottle City of God"); Poetry: Martha Silano ("The World") ^[7]
• 2014–Prose: Tom Howard ("The Magnificents"); Poetry: Chelsea Jennings ("Elegy") ^[8]
• 2015–Prose: Robert Long Foreman ("Awe"); Poetry: Jaime Brunton ("Chase") ^[9]
• 2016–Prose: Maureen McGranaghan ("Stylites Anonymous"); Poetry: Aaron Coleman ("Very Many Hands") ^[10]
• 2017–Prose: Sean Gill ("For Want of a Better Word"); Poetry: Samantha Grenrock ("This Was My Bulwark") ^[11]
• 2018–Prose: Tori Malcangio ("See What I Mean"); Poetry: Maggie Millner ("Cherry Valley") ^[12]
• 2019–Prose: Julie Marie Wade ("Perfect Hands"); Poetry: Bernard Ferguson ("you’re welcome") ^[13]
• 2020–Fiction: Patch Kirschenbaum ("For Future Reference: Notes on the 7-10 Split"); Nonfiction: Anya Groner ("Upon Impact"); Poetry: Samyak Shertok ("No Man’s Land Ghazal") ^[14]
• 2021–Fiction: Faire Holliday ("Standing Still"); Nonfiction: Barbara Paulus ("Beaches"); Poetry: Emma Miao ("Fifty years after the war") ^[15]
• 2022–Fiction: Thomas Dodson ("The Watchman"); Nonfiction: L.I. Henley ("On the Subject of Bearing and 'Other Options'"); Poetry: Caroline Harper New ("Notes on Devotion") ^[16]

See also

• List of literary magazines

Notes

1. "Cincinnati Review".
2. "Top 50 Literary Magazines -Every Writer". November 9, 2021.
3. "Robert and Adele Schiff Awards".
4. "2010 Contest Winners".
5. "2011 Contest Winners".
6. "2012 Contest Winners".
7. "2013 Contest Winners".
8. "2014 Contest Winners".
9. "2015 Contest Winners".
10. "2016 Contest Winners".
11. "2017 Contest Winners".
12. "2018 Contest Winners".
13. "2019 Contest Winners".
14. "2020 Contest Winners".
15. "2021 Contest Winners".
16. "2022 Contest Winners".

External links

• Official website