September 7, 2011
Announcing the KR Fellowships
The Kenyon Review is pleased to announce the KR Fellowships. These two-year post-graduate positions are intended for creative writers who have already completed the MFA or PhD degree and are […]
September 7, 2011
KR Reading Period Begins September 15
The Kenyon Review will begin accepting submissions through its online submissions site on September 15, 2011 and the submissions period will continue through January 15, 2012. Short fiction, poetry, drama, […]
September 7, 2011
The Kenyon Review Allows Multiple Submissions!
Starting September 15th, The Kenyon Review and KROnline will allow authors to submit their work simultaneously to KR and to other publications as well. “We recognize that writers are reluctant […]
September 7, 2011
Writing Scholarship for KR Young Writers
GAMBIER, Ohio (August 22, 2011) A new merit scholarship named in honor of the Kenyon College president has been endowed to attract the most talented writing students to the College. […]
September 7, 2011
From Young Writer to Presidential Scholar
Among the 470 first-year students arriving at Kenyon College this August were a glassblower, a Navajo writer and artist, a figure skater, a steel drummer who performed at Mardi Gras […]
September 7, 2011
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
The eighth annual Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers will begin accepting entries in November. The prize, which is open to high school sophomores and juniors throughout the world, […]
September 6, 2011
Short Takes: Crying and Laughing, or Both
A kind of poetic justice, in which an Ottawa prosecutor’s rhyme helped to convict an impaired driver in court. Plugged into Google Correlate (a tool which lets you free-draw graph […]
September 3, 2011
Wunderkammer: Padgett Powell’s Edisto
A wunderkammer is a curiosity cabinet; it means “wonder chamber” in German. In these posts, I’ll assemble trivia and a handful of oddities that evoke the spirit of a particular […]
September 3, 2011
“Somebody being dead and how it moves along”
Weston Cutter’s recent interview with George Pelacanos has got me thinking about detective fiction. I recently moved to a new city, and last week went to my new local independent […]
September 1, 2011
Mix Tape: This Must Be the Place (“Home is where I want to be, but I guess I’m already there…”)
A bad economy makes for good reading. The “new realism” has everything to do with place and class. Kerouac never had GPS! In fact, “the mode of travel on the […]
August 25, 2011
Mix Tape: Snark Week
Dear author, thank you for sending us title, but we are unable to use it at this time. Snark doesn’t pay. In fact, it can be pretty expensive. Add a […]
August 23, 2011
“The thing gleams from inside the book”: A conversation/dictionary with Rachel Glaser
One of this summer’s great pleasures was reading Rachel Glaser’s commanding and audacious debut, Pee On Water (from Publishing Genius). Glaser’s stories are bold and wild and singular–in the words […]