Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Looking Back at the Kenyon Review Archives

Editors, KR Contributors, KR Workshop faculty, and other contemporary writers have been invited to respond to work in the Review’s backlist. Each of them has chosen to curate their own list of favorites, to respond to a work or group of works that resonate with or inspire them, to write an new essay or poem, or to create a prompt based on a piece.