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

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October 1, 2004

Spilled Rice

By Laura Bennett

Third-Place Winner2004 Kenyon Review Poetry Prize for Young Writers Snow fell yesterday like the bag of white rice I spilled on Grandma’s blue carpet and she told me can’t-you-ever-be-careful her […]

October 1, 2004

A Birth

By Robin Myers

First-Place Winner2004 Kenyon Review Poetry Prize for Young Writers We ran to the barn in the dark, bearing flashlights, beams skimming over mud. Alert with cold and the smells of […]