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, 2018

Lionel, for Worse

By David Greendonner

2017 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Winner   Lionel finally decided he’d like to be cremated at the end of things, so I said we’d better practice scattering his ashes, […]

January 1, 2018

Canto

By Lorain Urban

2017 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Runner-up   Carolyn had forgotten her goddamn phone and was now waiting for the goddamn elevator doors to close, so she could return to […]