Today's Feature:
"I Must Listen to the Birds" by @deesoulpoetry.com from @kenyonreview.bsky.social, Spring 2025
Read here:
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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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“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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"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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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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Here's an utterly gorgeous poem by Sally Wen Mao from our Spring 2020 issue! ❤️❤️
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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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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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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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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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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.
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.
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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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:
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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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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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"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:
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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...
"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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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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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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The last poem in a sequence for my late brother Chris. From our last visit together. In the new @kenyonreview.bsky.social 🙏🏻
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! 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)
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🖤🐻
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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