February 1, 2016
Why We Chose It
Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s poems “Black-Bellied Whistling Ducks” and “Red-Breasted Nuthatches” appear in the Jan/Feb 2016 issue of the Kenyon Review. A few years ago, Joshua Corey and I were in the […]
February 1, 2016
Alyssa Mazzoli Wins Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
Alyssa Mazzoli, a sophomore at Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina, took first place in this year’s Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, presented by the Kenyon Review. […]
January 11, 2016
Why We Chose Them
This monthly column usually offers editors’ thoughts on why we originally fell in love with—and ultimately published in the Kenyon Review or KROnline—a particular story or poem or essay. It’s […]
November 2, 2015
Why We Chose It
Jaquira Díaz’s essay “Ordinary Girls” appears in the Nov/Dec 2015 issue of the Kenyon Review. Read an excerpt here. Great writing is like diving: anybody can get from the platform […]
November 2, 2015
A Celebration of Writers: The 2015 KR Literary Festival
Posters advertising this year’s KR Literary Festival and Rosenblatt’s novel Kayak Morning quickly became wet from consistent rain, with one or two seen blowing down Middle Path. However, the weather […]
October 5, 2015
Why We Chose It
“Mēl,” by Amy Wright, appears in the Sept/Oct 2015 issue of Kenyon Review Halfway through her essay “Mēl,” Amy Wright sits down to a freshly prepared bowl of cricket risotto. […]
September 8, 2015
Why We Chose It
Lindsay Turner’s review of Etel Adnan’s, To look at the sea is to become what one is, appears in the Spring 2015 issue of KROnline. I’ve been a book-review editor […]
August 9, 2015
To Envy a 16-Year-Old: Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop 2015
It’s 1:30 p.m., I’m 19 years old, I’ve just completed my first year of college, and I’m sitting in a circle of cramped, wooden desks. It’s summer and the sun […]
August 9, 2015
Why We Chose It
Erin McGraw’s story “Management” appears in the Summer 2015 issue of KROnline. Right out of the gate the voice is sure and angry and trapped: Teenagers twine around each other […]
July 6, 2015
Why We Chose It
Derek Mong, “Ten New Ways to Read Johnson’s Radi os” The literary essay is having, as they say, a moment. Here at KR, the number of nonfiction submissions we receive each […]
July 6, 2015
Literary Nonfiction Writers Workshop: Letting Something Small Expand
“Oh boy.” I’d forgotten to prepare for the first day of Literary Nonfiction class at the Kenyon Review’s intensive Writers Workshop. Roger Rosenblatt had assigned 250 words on any item […]
May 4, 2015
A Reading from AWP
Ed. Note: Fiction Editor Caitlin Horrocks wrote the following story for the “New Voices at the Kenyon Review” panel presented at AWP last month. The story is composed entirely of lines […]