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

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June 16, 2025

Your Girls

By Tamar Nachmany

I always knew I would get breast cancer. I’m a bit of a hypochondriac. Then I did, and felt validated. My hypochondria saved my life. Not everyone can say that. […]

June 16, 2025

Cousin Hayden

By Victoria Winter Hill

The summer the child started smoking was the summer he spent with his cousin Hayden was the summer he got baptized was the summer Tennessee burned from border to border. […]

June 13, 2025

The Milk Incident

By Easton Smith

The Kenyon Review · “The Milk Incident” by Easton Smith People are always asking me about Patrick. Hey Gennybetz, they say, how’d you get all mixed up with that boy […]

June 13, 2025

Introduction

The 2024 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest was judged by Idra Novey, author of Take What You Need, a New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and named one of […]