Must be under 30 years of age at time of submission.
Submissions accepted: Feb. 1st-28th
Final Judge: Richard Ford
Word limit: 1200 words
Entry fee: None
Award: Publication in the Winter 2010 issue of KR; scholarship covering tuition, room, and board to attend the 2009 Writers Workshop, June 20th-27th in Gambier, Ohio.
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Applications now being accepted for the 2009 Writers Workshop! Rolling admissions; each workshop capped at 10 participants–apply early! Our instructors for 2009:
Workshop Leaders
Poetry
DAVID BAKER is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Midwest Eclogue and Treatise on Touch: Selected Poems, as well as of two critical books. He currently serves as Professor of English at Denison University where he holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing. He is a recent recipient of a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation and is the poetry editor of The Kenyon Review.
CARL PHILLIPS is the author of seven collections of poetry. His books include In the Blood, winner of the 1992 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, From the Devotions (1998), a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, and Rock Harbor (2002). His most recent collection, The Rest of Love: Poems, (2004) was named a National Book Award finalist. Phillips is the recipient of, among others, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Foundation Fellowship from the Library of Congress, two Pushcart Prizes and the Academy of American Poets Prize. His poems, essays and translations have appeared in such journals as The Nation, The Paris Review and The Yale Review.
Fiction
NANCY ZAFRIS is the author of two novels, The Metal Shredders (a New York Times Notable book of the year) and more recently, Lucky Strike. Her collection of short stories, The People I Know, won the Flannery O’Connor award for short fiction as well as the Ohioana Library Association award. She is a two-time recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
LEE MARTIN is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever; a novel, Quakertown; a story collection, The Least You Need to Know; and two memoirs, From Our House and Turning Bones. His most recent book is River of Heaven. He has won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, a Lawrence Foundation Award, and the Glenna Luschei Prize. He currently directs the creative writing program at The Ohio State University.
Literary Nonfiction
REBECCA McCLANAHAN is the author of nine books, most recently Deep Light: New and Selected Poems 1987-2007 and The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, which won the 2005 Glasgow Prize in Nonfiction, and Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, and numerous literary magazines and anthologies throughout the country. She has received a Pushcart Prize, the Wood Prize from Poetry, and has twice won the Carter Prize.
Poetry for New Writers
DEBORAH DIGGES is the author of four books of poems. Her first book, Vesper Sparrows (Atheneum), won the Delmore Schwartz Prize from New York University. Late in the Millennium (Knopf) was published in 1989 and Rough Music (Knopf) in 1995, which won the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Her latest book, Trapeze (Knopf), appeared in March 2004. A new book of poems, Dance of the Seven Veils, is in progress. Digges has also written two memoirs, Fugitive Spring (1991) and The Stardust Lounge (2001). She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.
Fiction for New Writers
GEETA KOTHARI is the fiction editor of The Kenyon Review. Born and raised in New York City, she now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a two-time recipient of the fellowship in literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the editor of ???Did My Mama Like to Dance?’ and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Kenyon Review, the Massachusetts Review, Fourth Genre, and Best American Essays. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. Listen to a reading of her short story “If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?”