The Cincinnati Review

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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.

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Vibe:Very fancy very impressive very not fast
Response time:
6 months*
Editor reported data
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130 days*
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Acceptance rate: /
3.66%*
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Pays$25-$30 per page

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FeeNo

Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Pushcart Prize
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee

Fiction

Sub Genres: Literary

Payment: $ 25 per page

No more than forty double-spaced pages. Include name and contact information at the beginning of the work.

Fiction - 500 words max

Max words: 500

Sub Genres: Literary

Payment: $ 25 per page

For miCRo - 500 words max.

Nonfiction

Payment: $ 25 per page

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.

Nonfiction - 500 words max

Max words: 500

Payment: $ 25 per page

For miCRo - 500 words max.

Poetry

Payment: $ 30 per page

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

Payment: $ 25 per page

No specific limitations

Translation

Payment: $ 25 per page

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

Payment: $ 25 per page

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.

How to submit

Processs
Other
Cover letter
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Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Fiction and nonfiction should be double-spaced.
Author's rights
The Cincinnati Review acquires first North American serial rights, including electronic rights; all rights revert to author upon publication.
Additional info
We accept submissions for the print journal generally during three time periods: September, December, and May. Those reading periods will open on the first day of the month and close once we hit the submissions cap for that period. miCRo submissions are open nearly year-round, except while we’re accepting entries for the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards during the early summer, or if we experience a backlog in that category. We pay $25/page for prose and $30/page for poetry in the print journal and $25 for miCRo posts or special features. We nominate for Best New Poets and Pushcart.

Tracker statistics

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Total submissions tracked

130 days

Average response time

3.66%

Average acceptance rate

13 days

Fastest response time

358 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 838 days, 4039 days, 4039 days

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About

Established in 2003 at the University of Cincinnati, The Cincinnati Review has a three-fold mission: to publish the finest creative and critical work being written today, to make sure our efforts reflect the diversity of the literary community, and to educate UC graduate students in the art of lite...

Founded

2003

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www.cincinnatireview.com

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Lisa Ampleman

Editor-in-Chief

Matt O’Keefe

Senior Associate Editor

Michael Griffith

Fiction Editor

Rebecca Lindenberg

Poetry Editor

Brant Russell

Drama Editor