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

The Cloisters

By Morgan English

The Kenyon Review · “The Cloisters” by Morgan English I spilled coffee down my nice white dress. I walked untilmy thighs rubbed each other raw,then kept walking. I was wrong […]

May 19, 2026

Midnight Spammers

By Leslie Adrienne Miller

The Kenyon Review · “Midnight Spammers” by Leslie Adrienne Miller This summer’s bears already knowwhere the people who make mistakeslive, where the garbage sits in sun too longwhile the guys […]

May 19, 2026

Sovereign

By Leslie Adrienne Miller

The Kenyon Review · “Sovereign” by Leslie Adrienne Miller is the word that rises into the sharp glintof sun on the pond, the blue lapse and slapof it like a […]

May 19, 2026

Armilla

By Gus Wray

The Kenyon Review · “Armilla” by Gus Wray Where does the house end? Is the line between the house and the home the bed and the refrigerator and the television? […]

January 15, 2026

The Disparate Heart

By Jacque Gorelick

The Kenyon Review · “The Disparate Heart” by Jacque Gorelick Read “The Disparate Heart” a companion piece to author Jacque Gorelick’s MAP OF A HEART: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, LOSS, […]