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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 2020

Vol. XLII, No. 1

2019 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest

Short Fiction Contest Introduction

By Jena Chapman Andres, Alex Burchfield, and Kirsten Reach

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Brown Girls

By Daphne Palasi Andreades

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Solitária

By Emily Everett

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You Break It, You Own It

By Susan Falco

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Fiction

The Forgetting Diary

By Shoshana Akabas

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Mona Samino

By Claire Luchette

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Mercy

By Aaron Berry Davis

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Nonfiction

Of Today

Of Today

By Solmaz Sharif

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Practice

By Ari Banias

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I Can’t Hear You When You’re Screaming

By Carolina Ebeid

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can’t unsee

By Evie Shockley

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Written after a Massacre in the Year 2018

By Daniel Borzutzky

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Sovereign Silence, or the City

By Roger Reeves

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Rich Black, or Best Barbarian

By Roger Reeves

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beast of no omissions

By Marwa Helal

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Sfakiá to Loutró

By Eleni Sikelianos

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why are there stars?

By Philip Metres

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Ownership of Time

By Christopher Kondrich

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