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

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January 7, 2019

Why We Chose It

By Geeta Kothari

“Governing Bodies,” by Sangamithra Iyer, appears in the Jan/Feb 2019 issue of the Kenyon Review. The stories of the formerly colonized are the stories of lives disrupted and fragmented, invisible […]

April 10, 2017

Speak Up

By Admin

While no government can call a great artist or scholar into existence, it is necessary and appropriate for the Federal Government to help create and sustain not only a climate […]

November 2, 2015

Why We Chose It

By Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky

Jaquira Díaz’s essay “Ordinary Girls” appears in the Nov/Dec 2015 issue of the Kenyon Review. Read an excerpt here. Great writing is like diving: anybody can get from the platform […]

May 4, 2015

A Reading from AWP

By Caitlin Horrocks

Ed. Note: Fiction Editor Caitlin Horrocks wrote the following story for the “New Voices at the Kenyon Review” panel presented at AWP last month. The story is composed entirely of lines […]