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The Kenyon Review

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

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Jan/Feb 2019

Vol. XLI, No. 1

2018 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest

Short Fiction Contest Introduction

By Jena Chapman Andres, Alex Burchfield, and Kirsten Reach

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Dientes for Dentures

By Laura Roque

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Spiritual Introduction to the Neighborhood

By Tyler Barton

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Breaking

By Christopher Fox

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Fiction

An Excerpt from “Experts on Pain”

By Hanna Halperin Goldstein

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Superheroes

By Gabriela Alemán and Dick Cluster

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Coffins for Kids!

By Wendy Rawlings

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Nonfiction

Like

By Albert Goldbarth

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Governing Bodies

By Sangamithra Iyer

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Poetry

Checkpoint

By Philip Metres

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Isdoud (for Fady Joudah)

By Philip Metres

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Vocation

By Mary Ruefle

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30 March

By Mary Ruefle

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Boutonniere

By Mary Ruefle

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First Walk on Sea Ice

By Elizabeth Bradfield

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The Fossil Whale

By Elizabeth Bradfield

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Turnaround Day

By Elizabeth Bradfield

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The Blinds Must Be Closed by Dusk

By Elizabeth Bradfield

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Vestigial Bones

By Rajiv Mohabir

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Kabira

By Rajiv Mohabir

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Egrets, Regrets

By Brian Cochran

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The Tailor’s Requiem

By José Kozer and Peter Boyle

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Harvesting

By José Kozer and Peter Boyle

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Ode, of My Country

By José Kozer and Peter Boyle

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O Drawer!

By Jerzy Ficowski, Piotr Sommer, and Jennifer Grotz

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Incantation

By Jerzy Ficowski, Piotr Sommer, and Jennifer Grotz

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From “Noon, Fire, and No Shade”

By Sharron Hass and Tsipi Keller

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National Anthems in a Nuclear Era

By Brian Tierney

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Collaborators

By Keetje Kuipers

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Out Loud

Out Loud: Audio Selections from the Kenyon Review

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