Editorial Experience

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Positions
Associate Editor

• Issue 17.1, Summer 2020
• Issue 16.2, Winter 2020

Reader for Robert and Adele Schiff Award in Prose

• ​Issue 17.1, Summer 2020

Assistant Editor​

• ​Issue 16.1, Summer 2019
• Issue 15.2, Winter 2019​

​Volunteer Editorial Assistant

• Issue 15.1, Summer 2018​​

About the Magazine
Print Issues (nationally distributed)

• ​Short Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Reviews​​
• Affiliated with Acre Books and the University of Cincinnati 

miCRo Series (online)

• Prose of 500 words or less and poetry of 32 lines or less​

CR Blog (online)

• Editors' Dispatches
• Interviews
• Submission Trends and Tips
• Why We Like It

Positions​
Assistant Nonfiction Editor

• Issue 42.1, Fall/Winter 2015

Editorial Intern

• Issue 39.2, Spring/Summer 2013
• Issue 40.1, Fall/Winter 2013​ ​

About the Magazine
​Print Issues (nationally distributed)

• Short Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Art​​
• Affiliated with the University of Alabama MFA Program in Creative Writing
• ​Graduate-student run

Editorial Responsibilities

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Editing

• Copyediting/developmental editing
• Proofing
• Collaborative editorial suggestions

Marketing​

• Promotional blog and social media posts 
• Promotional graphics (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom)

Manuscripts

• Rating/reviewing
• Selection
• Solicitation
• Online submission management​

Administrative

• Author contracts, payment, and communication
• Email, website, and social media management
• Database entry

 
Training/Supervisory

• Training materials and workshops
• Mentorship and supervision of volunteers  ​

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Event Planning

• Venue booking
• Author solicitation
• Catering 
• Event promotion (print, social media)
• Hosting/MCing
• Academic conference involvement

Sample Work

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Cincinnati Review miCRo Series

"Up" by Tanya Whiton (fiction)

"trusting the birds" by Uma Menon​ (poetry)​

"Pectin" by Gretchen Van Wormer (creative nonfiction)

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CR Blog: Submission Trends and Tips

​"Trends and Tips: Our Award-Winning miCRo Series"

​​"Trends and Tips: How to Take and Choose an Author Photo" ​​


Social Media

CR Blog: Editors' Dispatches

"Writing Women"

​"AWP Conference & Book Fair Round-Up"

​"The Editor-Author Relationship"


​CR Blog: Why We Like It

"The Crow in Effigy: A Flip-Book by Sarah Minor and Other Nontraditional Essays"