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

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May 19, 2026

Zillow listings in an oil town

By Arman Salem

The thing is I understandthe dangers of plotting this farin advance a matryoshkaof crews repairing the secondsinkhole on I-80 New Jerseya bunch of trashI met my wifein Dyrrachium while smokinga […]

May 19, 2026

Abacus; Chortkeh

By Flora Elmi Beagley

Tell me about cherried board; from your grandfatherivory; bone in monochromebalanced and turned; by concentrated hands of hisover Brazilian coffee, The first cacao in the city; carpetsSilk, you can feel, […]

May 19, 2026

Deptford

By Flora Elmi Beagley

Nightlife spits and makes me oldin it. That bridge is just stoic, not looked after,my kitchen molding into an hour I choseto ignore. That hill was so cold on the […]

May 19, 2026

Holy Saturday

By Éireann Lorsung

My god—my apple blossom, my stand of crocus comingthrough the tubers of the iris, my blue crown, myiridescent night, my star strand, my golden: Even the dolors of the world […]

May 19, 2026

Riverside Drive Canto

By Dante Di Stefano

The Kenyon Review · “Riverside Drive Canto” by Dante Di Stefano When you don’t leave your hometown, you keep braiding togetherthe ghost threads & roots & routes of your kin. […]

May 19, 2026

Dream House

By Morgan English

The Kenyon Review · “The Dream House” by Morgan English I.All the rooms in my mindare wallpapered, thickin folkloric pale bluesymbols. Horsehair plastercovered up in drywallunderneath the pretty paper.I need […]