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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.
Vibe
Very fancy very impressive very not fast
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
No more than forty double-spaced pages. Include name and contact information at the beginning of the work.
Flash rules
Max words: 500
For miCRo - 500 words max.
Nonfiction
We’re interested mostly in pieces of nonfiction less than twenty double-spaced pages, though you can try us for longer pieces if you think they’ll knock our socks off. Include name and contact information at the beginning of the essay.
Flash rules
Max words: 500
For miCRo - 500 words max.
Translations
Submissions should be no more than forty double-spaced pages. Include the writer’s name, translator’s name, and translator’s contact information at the beginning of the work. Please provide a brief introduction to the writer whose work you have translated in your submission or cover letter. We do not publish the originals. Translators should secure rights to translate before submitting. We are especially eager to read translations from less translated languages. Please submit up to five poems at a time, totaling no more than ten manuscript pages. Poet’s name, translator’s name, and translator’s contact information should appear at the top of every poem. Please include a brief introduction to the poet whose work you have translated in your submission or cover letter. We do not publish the originals. Translators should secure rights to translate before submitting.
Play
Please send us a query through our submission manager. Upload one document that includes both a one-page query letter with project description, author bio, and history of the piece submitted (has it been workshopped or produced?), and a sample of the play or screenplay, no more than ten pages. For miCRo: scripts should be about three minutes in performance.
Poetry
No more than ten manuscript pages. For longer pieces or sequences, send no more than ten manuscript pages total, and mention in your comments or cover letter that the submission is part of a longer work. Poet’s name and contact information should appear at least once in the file. For miCRo - 32 lines max.
Hybrid
No specific limitations
Fiction
No more than forty double-spaced pages. Include name and contact information at the beginning of the work.
Flash rules
Max words: 500
For miCRo - 500 words max.
Nonfiction
We’re interested mostly in pieces of nonfiction less than twenty double-spaced pages, though you can try us for longer pieces if you think they’ll knock our socks off. Include name and contact information at the beginning of the essay.
Flash rules
Max words: 500
For miCRo - 500 words max.
Translations
Submissions should be no more than forty double-spaced pages. Include the writer’s name, translator’s name, and translator’s contact information at the beginning of the work. Please provide a brief introduction to the writer whose work you have translated in your submission or cover letter. We do not publish the originals. Translators should secure rights to translate before submitting. We are especially eager to read translations from less translated languages. Please submit up to five poems at a time, totaling no more than ten manuscript pages. Poet’s name, translator’s name, and translator’s contact information should appear at the top of every poem. Please include a brief introduction to the poet whose work you have translated in your submission or cover letter. We do not publish the originals. Translators should secure rights to translate before submitting.
Play
Please send us a query through our submission manager. Upload one document that includes both a one-page query letter with project description, author bio, and history of the piece submitted (has it been workshopped or produced?), and a sample of the play or screenplay, no more than ten pages. For miCRo: scripts should be about three minutes in performance.
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
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Details
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
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Awards
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Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Magazine
Founded in 2003 | United States
Masthead
We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)
Lisa Ampleman
Editor-in-Chief
Matt O’Keefe
Senior Associate Editor
Michael Griffith
Fiction Editor
Rebecca Lindenberg
Poetry Editor
Brant Russell
Drama Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
36
Average acceptance rate
0% (so far)
Average response time
92 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
-/92 days
Fastest response time
13 days
Slowest response time
237 days
Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 838 days