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

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January 1, 2011

Listened

By Diana Kole

2010 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Runner-up   Charles reached across the seat of the cab to cover his wife’s dry hand with his own. The knuckles of it were […]

January 1, 2011

Death Threat

By Megan Anderegg Malone

2010 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Winner   She knew it was serious when she saw her father strap the gun belt over his pinstriped shirt in the morning as […]

January 1, 2011

Salt

By Christopher Feliciano Arnold

2010 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Runner-up   There were three of us kids, so during those last days, when Dad felt cramped with all of us staring at him, […]