We would like to congratulate Laura Van Prooyen for winning  the McGovern prize from Ashland Poetry Press for her collection of poems, Our House Was on Fire (nominated by Philip Levine); the book is scheduled for release in January 2015. 

Issue 187 has arrived. The following people are featured: Nancy Eimers, William Wright, Mary Crow, Jorge Rodriguez-Mirralles, Trudy Lewis and Jill Logan. Thank you to our cover artist Kat Eng for her feature excerpts from the comic “Everything is Fine.” Pick up your copy or Become a subscriber today.

Congratulations to David Koehn (Cimarron Review #157) whose book, Twine, won last year’s May Sarton Prize. Pick up your copy today.

Cimarron congratulates contributor Stefanie Wortman, whose first book of poems, In the Permanent Collection, was selected for the Vassar Miller Prize and will be published next month by the University of North Texas Press. We’re especially pleased to note that we had the good taste to give Wortman her first publication.

We at Cimarron Review are especially pleased to announce the arrival of Cimarron Review Issue 186. This issue, in addition to featuring the arresting photography of Stanley Horowitz, also includes fiction by Raymond Fleischmann, Monique Wentzel, Brenda Peynado, and Leslie Pietrzyk, along with poetry by Monica Berlin, Thomas Brush, Ines Pujos, Christa Romanosky, Lori Wilson, Neil Shepard, Kate Peper, and many others.  Pick up your copy or Become a subscriber today.