Established in 2003 at the University of Cincinnati, The Cincinnati Review has a threefold mission:
The CR publishes two print issues a year (with fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, drama, reviews, and a portfolio of artwork) and runs a weekly online series, miCRo, which features shorter poems and flash fiction/literary nonfiction/hybrid works.
Since its inception in 2003, The Cincinnati Review has published many promising new and emerging writers as well as Pulitzer Prize winners and Guggenheim and MacArthur fellows. Poetry and prose from our pages have been selected to appear in the annual anthologies Best American Essays, Best American Fantasy, Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, Best Creative Nonfiction, Best Microfiction, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions, New Poetry from the Midwest, New Stories from the Midwest, New Stories from the South, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Orison Anthology, and the Pushcart Prize anthology.
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