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

Read
Kenyon Review logo

Gavin Murtha

Gavin Murtha was recently awarded the bronze medal in the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English 2015 High School Writing Contest. He enjoys writing short fiction and world-building.

Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize

Sept/Oct 2015

I Spent a Lot of Time in There

By Gavin Murtha

Runner-up 2015 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers There’s a sign above the door, “Funeral Home— Pay Before You Stay” I sit inside downstairs, away from obscured bodies but […]