March 4, 2013
Join KR at AWP!
Visit us March 6-9, at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference at the Hynes Convention Center & Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston. On Saturday, March 9th, the book […]
February 5, 2013
Why We Chose It
Stories set in moving vehicles—buses, trains, cars—often give the appearance of movement. The writer establishes a destination, and this often creates a false sense of urgency and suspense. “Care,” by […]
February 5, 2013
Ian Burnette Wins Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
Ian Burnette, a junior at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina, took first place in this year’s Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for […]
February 5, 2013
Tiffany Midge Wins Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry
We are pleased to announce that Tiffany Midge is the winner of the first Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry for her collection, “The Woman Who Married a Bear.” […]
January 7, 2013
Apply Now for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop!
Online applications are now available for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, an intensely creative week-long series of writing workshops held June 15-22, 2013 on the campus of Kenyon College in […]
January 7, 2013
The 2013 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
The Kenyon Review will begin accepting submissions for the sixth annual Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest on February 1, 2013. The contest is open to all writers who have not […]
January 6, 2013
Why We Chose It
Book reviews do more than alert readers to new books: they contribute to the life of those books, much as the reception after a poetry reading contributes to the life […]
November 5, 2012
Why We Chose It
“Elegy” by Katie Peterson David Baker and I both admired Katie Peterson’s first collection, This One Tree (New Issues, 2006), and when I saw new work from Peterson in the […]
October 8, 2012
Why We Chose It
By Hilary Plum, Consulting Editor “Undertaking” by Anne Germanacos “I can only make things taut; I have no interest in roundabout or loose,” we’re told in Anne Germanacos’s “Undertaking,” a […]
September 11, 2012
Why We Chose It
By David Lynn, Editor “You sail at dusk, not knowing one from the other.” Thus begins “Ezekiel,” a story appearing in the Fall 2012 issue of The Kenyon Review. First, […]
September 11, 2012
KR Hosts Art and Identity Symposium
The Kenyon Review, in partnership with Kenyon College and the Graham Gund Gallery, will host “Art and Identity: The Holocaust and Cultural Ownership in the 21st Century,” a yearlong symposium on […]
August 7, 2012
Why We Chose It
Christopher Boucher’s How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive Much was made in literary circles of the fact that a scene in the first episode of the HBO series Girls—which you […]