Today's Feature:
"I Must Listen to the Birds" by @deesoulpoetry.com from @kenyonreview.bsky.social, Spring 2025
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Today's Feature:
"I Must Listen to the Birds" by @deesoulpoetry.com from @kenyonreview.bsky.social, Spring 2025
Read here:
poems.com/poem/i-must-...
Young Writers Workshop: "“This workshop reminded me why I fell in love with writing. It helped me reconnect with the part of myself I express only through words. I leave feeling grateful, inspired, and whole again.” Palak Gupta
Young Writers—the deadline is almost here for our Residential Workshops this summer. At these generative workshops led by distinguished instructors, you will challenge yourself and develop your voice in a supportive and passionate community of peers. Apply here:
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From "This Is Your Life" by Lily Felsenthal
“What is a muse to a painter’s wife?”
A fully enthralling piece from our latest issue—“This Is Your Life” by Lily Felsenthal is an ekphrastic story responding to Andrew Wyeth’s portraits of Helga Testorf. Read it here:
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From "God I just want to talk" by Arro Mandell
"God I just want to talk" by Arro Mandell delivers beauty, terror—and that ending! We will be revisiting this one again and again. Read and listen to it in our latest issue:
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Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop
Applications for our Residential Young Writers Workshops this summer close March 1! Every year, we're amazed by the excitement and inventiveness of young writers who join us to take the next stride in their writing journey.
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From "Ode to Emptiness" by Sally Wen Mao: "There comes a time when you stop hoping for love. What then to live for?"
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Here's an utterly gorgeous poem by Sally Wen Mao from our Spring 2020 issue! ❤️❤️
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from "Don't Look Away" by janan alexandra
Fragmentary and bold, "Don’t Look Away" by janan alexandra accumulates an unflinching image with deft, cutting lines. Find it in our latest issue at the link:
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From Chrestomathy Fragment 2 by Su Cho
Our latest issue has several new poems by Su Cho. If you need a moment of quiet and wonder today, here's our recommendation: spend some time with these poems. All of these poems are available to listen to on our website, too.
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From "Map of the Moon (2006) by Sara Henning
We have NEW poems by Sara Henning! In "Map of the Moon (2006)" cosmology and the body coalesce in surprising and startling ways. Read it in our latest issue at the link:
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Young Writers Workshops, Deadline March 1
Share this with your high school students or friends ready to take the next big step in their writing journey! Applications for our Residential Young Writers Workshops are open until March 1.
Learn more and apply at the link:
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Summer Residential Writers Workshop Deadline Feb 9
Our Writers Workshops welcome writers at every stage of their writing journey. Join us this summer in Gambier, OH to focus on generating new work. We have an incredible lineup of faculty in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction, but the deadline to apply is almost here!
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“Ghost Hunting” by Jake Deluca, and “The Little Lover” by Kemberly Grey, and “Gun Stories” by Jane Morton were named as runners-up.
04.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2025 Fiction Contest Winner: Diana Cao
While this year's fiction contest submission window has closed, we have some major news for last year's contest. We are ECSTATIC to announce Diana Cao (she/her) as the winner of the 2025 Kenyon Review Fiction Contest for her story “Animals.”
Cao’s story will appear in our Spring 2026 print issue.
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From Proverbial by Lynne Jensen Lampe
Nostalgia and surreality blur into one another in "Proverbial" by Lynne Jensen Lampe. Listen to and read it in our latest issue at the link:
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Kenyon Review Residential Adult Writers Workshop Session Two Poetry Faculty: Leila Chatti, Oliver de la Paz, Richie Hofmann, Natalie Shapero.
Poets—this summer at Kenyon, challenge yourself to generate new work in writing workshops led by Leila Chatti, Oliver de la Paz, Richie Hofmann, or Natalie Shapero!
Applications close in a week, so apply today at the link:
kenyonreview.org/event/summer...
Kenyon Review Fiction Contest Deadline January 31
Submissions for our Fiction Contest close at the end of the month! This year's judge Jamil Jan Kochai will select one winner who will receive publication, contributor payment, and a full scholarship to the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops.
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Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Session Two Faculty: Jamil Jan Kochai, Idra Novey, Matthew Neill Null, Maurice Carlos Ruffin
January is almost in the rearview, and applications for our Writers Workshops close February 9. We're excited for fiction writers who will have an opportunity to work with either Jamil Jan Kochai, Idra Novey, Matthew Neill Null, or Maurice Carlos Ruffin.
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from What's Done is Done by ZZ Packer
"What's Done is Done" by ZZ Packer today is an incredible story told with precise and and tempered prose. Read it in our latest issue at the link:
kenyonreview.org/piece/whats-...
Kenyon Review Fiction Contest Deadline January 31
Submissions for our Fiction Contest close at the end of the month! This year's judge Jamil Jan Kochai will select one winner who will receive publication, contributor payment, and a full scholarship to the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops.
kenyonreview.org/submit/short...
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From "Histories of the Undead" by Leah Mensch.
"Like acts of preservation, acts of erasure are not accidental."
We love this essay by Leah Mensch, who tends to punctures in family history and the archive as both political and community labor with wisdom and care. Read "Histories of the Undead" at the link."
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Residential Adult Writers Workshop Apply by February 9, 2026
Spend a week with us in Gambier this summer to challenge yourself and generate new work. Shout out to the brilliant luminaries in our Session 1 Poetry Faculty: Anthony Cody, Major Jackson, Yalie Saweda Kamara, and Felicia Zamora. Find all the details at the link:
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"What's Done is Done" by ZZ Packer
Cue the "you are watching a master at work" sample. With impeccable prose, "What's Done is Done" by ZZ Packer has us transfixed, and we will return it again & again. Read it today in our latest issue:
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❤️ ❤️ ❤️
23.01.2026 16:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The last poem in a sequence for my late brother Chris. From our last visit together. In the new @kenyonreview.bsky.social 🙏🏻
23.01.2026 16:15 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Thrilled and still astonished to have an essay in here, reviewing Julia Armfield's Private Rites and Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep! I struggled with sharing the first-person vulnerability, and could not have done it without @claireoleson.bsky.social!
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(2/2) with poetry by Su Cho and Arro Mandell, fiction by Lydi Conklin and Sam Simas, and nonfiction from Bryce Emley and Leah Mensch; and a collection of art, including the cover art, by Kaela Mei-Chee Chambers.
Find it on our website.
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Our latest issue is here!
Our latest issue is here! Filled to the brim with brilliance, this issue includes the winner and runners–up for the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers; the winner of the second annual Poetry Contest; and Visitation, a folio guest-edited by Jennifer Galvão (1/2)
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The Kenyon Review Residential Adult Writers Workshops Session 1 Fiction Faculty: Lesley Nneka Arimah, Kristen Arnett, Lydi Conklin
The Fiction Faculty for Session One of our Writers Workshops is full of brilliance! We're grateful to be in the company of Lesley Nneka Arimah, Kristen Arnett, Lydi Conklin, and Joseph Earl Thomas. Come get to work with us this summer in Gambier.
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In case you missed it🖤🐻
15.01.2026 18:10 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Residential Adult Writers Workshops CNF Faculty: Dinty W. Moore, Angelique Stevens, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Paisley Rekdal
We have a superstar-studded faculty for our upcoming Residential Writing Workshops! We're excited for nonfiction participants who will work with Dinty W. Moore, Angelique Stevens, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, or Paisley Rekdal!
Join us in Gambier this summer!
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