December 7, 2021 • KR Newsletter

December 2021


NEWSLETTER \| DECEMBER 2021
Ring in the Reading Every December, as the holiday season arrives, we wish you, dear reader, a cozy armchair and a good book. And we deliver on this wish—at least the literary part—with reading recommendations from the editors and staff of the Kenyon Review, who note some of the books that have recently absorbed and astonished, delighted and inspired them. We’re happy to share their choices again, adding a bit of advice: Order your books quickly, especially if you’re buying them as gifts, since publishers are contending with the same supply-chain and delivery problems that are affecting other industries. At least we can take solace in the fact that great literature is timeless. Happy holidays, joyous reading! Here are this year’s holiday reading recommendations. Don’t Miss Tonight’s Poetry Event Tonight—Tuesday, December, 7, at 7:00 p.m. EST—KR Editor Nicole Terez Dutton talks with Linda Gregerson, Richie Hofmann, and Rajiv Mohabir, who all have poetry in the fall issues of KR. Learn more about the writers and register for this Zoom event. Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, and Jeremy Tiang Guest Edit a KR Translation Folio Three distinguished translators are inviting submissions for a portfolio to be published in 2023. Guest editors Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, and Jeremy Tiang are seeking work that goes beyond the usual notion of translation as a way of crossing boundaries of language and culture. They are interested in experiments, hybrid translations, fiction and poetry about translation and translators—work that undermines the traditional hierarchies of original and translation as well as the paradigm of translation-as-reproduction. They would particularly welcome translations from literatures that are underrepresented in white Anglophone publishing. The Kenyon Review is pleased to host this ambitious, rigorous conversation and to welcome the three guest editors. Jennifer Croft won the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. Anton Hur has translated books by Kyung-Sook Shin, Bora Chung, Sang Young Park, Ocean Vuong, and others. Jeremy Tiang has translated more than twenty books from Chinese and won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018 for his novel State of Emergency. Submissions will be accepted, via Submittable, during the month of December 2021. See the KR website for more information. 2022 Short Nonfiction Contest: Submit Now! The submission deadline for our annual short nonfiction contest is December 31. So, finish those revisions and send us your work. The word limit is 3,000 words, and the judge is the incomparable Maggie Nelson, the author of books including Bluets, The Argonauts, and most recently, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint. See the KR website for more information about the contest. Plan Your Summer Workshop Rejoice! Our adult residential writing workshops will be back in the summer of 2022. Yes, you can immerse yourself in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with kindred spirits and superb instructors—in-person, on the beautiful campus of Kenyon College. This summer’s faculty includes David Baker, Dan Beachy-Quick, Marie-Helene Bertino, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Leila Chatti, Victoria Chang, Alexandra Kleeman, E.J. Levy, Dinty W. Moore, Carl Phillips, Jamie Quatro, Bennett Sims, and Grace Talusan. We will start accepting applications in mid-December for both sessions of the Writers Workshops: June 12–18 and July 10–16. In addition, we will offer a number of online summer workshops from June 20–25, for which rolling admissions begin in the spring. The summer will also feature online workshops for translators and teachers. Young Writers Online Winter Workshops Our winter online workshops for high school students are filling fast, but there are still spaces and time to apply. The workshops meet once a week for six weeks between January 22 and February 27. Sessions focus on various genres, topics, or craft elements. Examples: “Poetic Forms in the 21st Century,” “Writing to Change the World,” “Queer Writing as Resistance,” and “Selfie in a Convex Mirror: Writing and the First-Person ‘I.’” To learn more and to apply, click here. Young Writers Return to Kenyon’s Campus This Summer High school writers, too, will be able to return to the Kenyon campus in the summer of 2022. Applications will be available on the KR website in early January for the two residential sessions of Young Writers, June 26–July 9 and July 17–30. The application deadline is March 1. We’ll also be offering online workshops in two sessions, June 19–24 and July 10–15, with rolling admissions beginning in mid-April. Learn more on the KR website. Red Ink, Blue Ink Kenyon Review authors may not have known the name Loretta Godfrey, but they certainly knew her work—and their writing was all the better for it. Godfrey retired this fall after twenty-eight years as the magazine’s chief copy editor. She worked with three editors and six managing editors. Ninety-three issues of the magazine fell under her scrutiny. Every page. Every word. Multiple times. Wielding two pens, red and blue, her corrections and queries saved authors from grammatical embarrassment, nudged them toward greater clarity, and kept the magazine clean and consistent. Read our appreciation of Loretta Godfrey and the art of copyediting. Holiday Subscription Savings A Kenyon Review subscription is a gift of dazzling poetry and prose that arrives six times a year. And it’s not too late to take advantage of the holiday-discount we’re offering. Until December 13, you can get an annual subscription to the Kenyon Review at the special rate of $25—or $30 if you add digital access. That’s nearly 60 percent off the newsstand price. It’s a perfect gift for anyone who loves literature—including yourself! To take advantage of this special offer, click here. A Note About the Newsletter With this December issue of the KR newsletter, we bid a fond farewell to newsletter editor, Daniel Laskin, who has been faithfully delivering clever headlines, thoughtful profiles (including the one about Loretta Godfrey in this issue), and keeping our readers in the know about all of our doings for the last four and a half years. We wish him “bon chance” as he turns his attention to his many passions including travel, family, and his own writing.	DECEMBER 2021 CONTENTS Holiday Book Recs Reading Series Translation Call Nonfiction Contest Writers Workshop Young Writers Winter Young Writers Summer Copy Editor Farewell Holiday Offer Newsletter Note
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