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Spring is springing, and we're back at it, too, with a new issue for you. Feat.
@bethbachmann
's winning story, chosen by
@daniellevalore
, fiction; poetry by
@rafajf2112
and
@a2poet
; and Literary Curiosities by
@ElizaGilbs
,
@MayaCPopa
, and many more!
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We're very pleased to announce that Nicole Terez Dutton will be the next editor of the Kenyon Review!
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Very soon, we'll be accepting submissions again. Polish off those drafts! Tell your friends! Stay hydrated!
We'll be sure to send a few gentle reminders along the way. Visit our website for full guidelines.
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Our own
@maggiesmithpoet
wrote the knockout poem of 2016, and we wanted to share it again today.
"Good Bones" by Maggie Smith:
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Hey! Take care of yourself first. The writing will come.
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Do I retweet myself?
Very well, then I retweet myself.
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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We've already announced that we're planning a Food issue in 2023. What are your favorite books with great writing about food?
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Hey, we will open for submissions on September 15!
We're looking forward to your prose, poetry, plays, excerpts, and translations!
If you'd like to send a book review--1,000-1,200 words--please query us first.
Here are our full submission guidelines:
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"Depression—anxiety, in particular—wear me out, and are artistic collaborators with me, longtime artistic collaborators. How do I keep writing when I'm really struggling? I would say frankly that I don't. . . . When I'm really struggling, I am the work."—
@theferocity
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We're planning a Food issue in 2023, so we have to ask: what is your favorite comfort food?
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"The narrative behind this generation being sensitive is [used] to obscure the colossal institutional violence occurring."
—Junot Díaz
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We're open until the end of September for three themed features and general submissions. No fees.
Visit our website for complete details. Send us something with heart!
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We do not charge fees to submit to our magazine. Most of the work we publish every year is submitted (for free) during our general submission period every September.
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Before you sleep tonight, we challenge you to sit down and read or write for just thirty minutes. It's the end of a long Monday; treat yourself!
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What was the short story that made you read short stories?
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Take care of yourselves this week––the writing & reading will come eventually.
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Any literary podcast fans out there? What are some of your favorites? We're very excited about this rapidly growing medium.
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"[each morning i pull myself]" by Lucille Clifton, from our Winter 1993 issue:
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Translators: we're excited to announce that
@jenniferlcroft
,
@AntonHur
, and
@JeremyTiang
will guest edit a portfolio of work in translation for KR. We'll accept submissions Dec 1 - 31. Details here:
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Someone reaches out to you about wanting to read poetry but not knowing where to begin. What poet or poem do you recommend?
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Applications are now open for our Summer Online Writing Workshops. We have Genre-Specific Workshops for adult writers (poetry, CNF, fiction, and translation), a Young Writers Workshop, and a workshop specifically for teachers!
Learn more and apply today at the link in our bio.
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We are launching a new developmental editing fellowship today. Applications are open until July 15.
Please help us spread the word:
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Have you ever received useful feedback from a rejection letter?
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How old were you (or how long had you been writing) when you were published for the first time?
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The brilliant Maggie Nelson is judging our 2022 short nonfiction contest! Submit your essay by December 31. The winner will be published in KR and receive a scholarship to attend the 2022 Kenyon Review Writers Workshops:
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This week, read something you love aloud to someone you love.
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🚨Call for submissions from guest editors
@rocketfantastic
and
@melissafaliveno
:
"Get experimental. Get speculative. Get hybrid. Get weird. Push boundaries of style and form. Because genre, like gender, is a construct. It’s rarely one thing or the other."
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It's Spooky Szn (as the kids say), so enjoy this print of Edward Gorey's eerie 1966 cover 🎃👻
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Tomorrow (September 30) is the last day of our submission period. You have a little more than 24 hours to send us your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. (There will be a separate call for literature in translation!)
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Some news we’re delighted to share:
@elliottholt
has joined the Kenyon Review as Deputy Editor!
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We’re at the halfway point for our submission period, so there are only two weeks left to send us something.
It’s a great weekend to put a submission together. We’re excited to see what you’ve been up to.
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We are open for submissions until September 31, and we can now announce two additional submission calls from guest editors:
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The Fall 2023 issue is here! It includes the winner and runners-up for the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, selected by
@RuthAwad
. This issue also includes Luminous Gender Vessel, a folio guest-edited by
@rocketfantastic
&
@melissafaliveno
.
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“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened” - Kazuo Ishiguro
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There are only a few days left to send us something! We are reading for three different themed folios and general submissions as well. No fee to submit. All guidelines at the link.
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“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world." -- Maggie Nelson
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"The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art." - Junot Díaz
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“‘You are alive,’ I whispered, ‘therefore something in you listens.’”
“Alfonso, in Snow” by
@ilya_poet
, from DEAF REPUBLIC
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"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."
Thinking about Mary Oliver today ❤️
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“The animals that come to live as my body — / the stomach and leg and lung and mouth — / they rest with no mind to govern the slackened / limbs, the automatic breath and blink.”
@officialdonika
's “Self-Portrait: A Triptych” is a stunner. Read it here:
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Happy birthday, Sylvia Plath, who was born October 27, 1932. Her poems "The Bee-Keeper's Daughter" and "The Colossus" appeared in the Autumn 1960 issue of the Kenyon Review.
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Weekly writing prompt: set a timer and write for fifteen minutes (poetry or prose) about an object in an unexpected place. A snow globe in a gutter? A mitten in a mailbox? Imagine the scene and let your words fly.
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Congrats to
@caesarah_
whose debut “Theophanies” (
@AliceJamesBooks
) comes out today! Our latest issue features some work from it here:
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This prompt is from
@Oliver_delaPaz
: Write a poem containing the following elements: a scent that speaks, the breath from a machine, a town with a persistent color, and a recurring animal. One line should be in the form of a vow. One line should state a regret.
#KRprompts
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You're tasked with teaching a semester-long English college course, but you can only teach one book––what book do you choose?
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Nicole Terez Dutton encourages writers to send experimental and hybrid work to
@kenyonreview
. On editing fiction: "I love a story that is actually a journey where I arrive somewhere new."
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On this World Poetry Day, we at the Kenyon Review want to know what poets gave you permission to write the kinds of poems you want to write. What poets helped convince you it's okay to be authentic?
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Congratulations to
@CPhillipsPoet
, who has just won the Jackson Prize for his body of work!
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Arguably the most important question to ask a writer: What is your favorite writing utensil? We want specifics ✏️🧐✒️
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Weekly writing prompt: Think of a smell that you associate with childhood. Now set a timer and write for 15 minutes, in poetry or prose, about that scent and how it makes you feel. Perhaps a poem, essay, or story will begin to emerge.
#KRprompts
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"I love you. I love you,
but I’m turning to my verses
and my heart is closing
like a fist."
Happy birthday to the American poet Frank O'Hara, born on this day in 1926.
#literarybirthdays
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We're grateful to the
@NEAarts
for a $15K grant for 2020. Congratulations to all recipients, including our friends
@AGNIMagazine
,
@APublicSpace
,
@asfmag
,
@believermag
,
@BOMBmagazine
,
@commonmag
,
@ElectricLit
,
@image_journal
,
@oxfordamerican
,
@pshares
,
@Triple_Canopy
,
@zyzzyvamag
!
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What poems do you return to when you're anxious or afraid?
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Amanda Gorman’s words were beyond apt and beautiful. Her caged bird ring was an extraordinary choice, too.
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We're now accepting applications for our Summer Residential Writers Workshops! With two sessions to choose from each with its own amazing faculty, the workshops provide a nurturing space to push your writing to the next level. Find faculty & details here:
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We have an evening of poetry and song with
@sheer_awe
, Ross Gay, and
@theferocity
coming up February 9th. We're counting the days. Preregister now!
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We open for submissions TODAY and will remain open until October 1! Please send us your work:
As always, our guidelines are available here:
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Have you submitted to our Short Nonfiction Contest yet?
The last day to submit is December 31st, and submissions must be 1,200 words or fewer.
And best of all,
@rgay
will be the final judge!
Read work from past winners and submit here:
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"We live at the mouth of grief, and even a new loss tastes familiar, a rehearsed recipe we carry in our bones."
From "And We Inherit Everything" by Brigitte Leschhorn Arrocha, winner of our 2021 Short Nonfiction Contest judged by
@rgay
:
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What's the best piece of writing advice you've received?
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Rita Dove will receive the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement this November!
We're looking forward to hosting her at
@KenyonCollege
during our literary festival, and at our annual gala at the Rainbow Room in New York:
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1)
@emilyraboteau
will edit a multi-genre portfolio featuring Angry Mamas discussing the climate crisis and environmental injustice. If you're an angry mama, your rage is welcome here:
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What’s an unexpected/bizarre/surprising skill or experience that has helped you as a writer?
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"I keep forgetting to forget that the America I was born in will not be the America in which I die"
-
@theferocity
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What’s the best collection of poetry you’ve read in the past year?
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Guest edited by
@evagbo
, Black Estrangement is now live! Feat. work from
@ProjectNard
,
@EricaCardwell
,
@RickeyFayne
,
@literari_ana
,
@jenisepalante
,
@leila_rg
,
@SkinnerJenee
,
@al_noellec
, & more!
Read it online for free here here:
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“If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.”—Elizabeth Bishop
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"Am I crazy, / America, letting you inside me again and again though you do not even / love me,"
From “'Let my anger be the celebration we were never / supposed to have.'” by Natasha Oladokun
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🚨 We open for submissions this Thursday, September 1! For full submission guidelines, click here:
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"Friendships—died June 24, 2009, once beloved but not consistently beloved."
Read "Obit" by
@VChangPoet
, from our July/Aug 2018 issue:
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A recommendation for knowing when a piece is done: "Read it back to yourself from the last line to the first one, and ask yourself on a line by line basis, is this line beautiful enough?"
––
@ilya_poet
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What's the best writing advice you've ever received or given?
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We’re accepting applications until December 10th for our Winter Online Adult Writers Workshop!
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." –– Jorge Luis Borges
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Delighted to announce that, alongside so many of the authors and organizations we admire, the Kenyon Review has received an
@NEAarts
grant. We're working hard, and we appreciate the agency’s support!
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TODAY IS THE DAY!
We are accepting submissions until October 1st!
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Everyone can name a favorite book or two. A more insightful challenge: what was your FIRST favorite book?
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We’re open for submissions September 1-30. Send us your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, short plays, and translations:
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"We should hold each other more
while we are still alive, even if it hurts.
People really die of loneliness, skin hunger
the doctors call it."
Thinking about skin hunger during a time of quarantine. Here's "Holdfast" by
@robinschaer
in
@POETSorg
.
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Congratulations to Daniel Zhang, the winner of this year’s Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize! And to our runners-up, Blair Enright of Weston, Massachusetts, and Gaia Rajan of Mason, Ohio. Yong-Yu Huang of George Town, Malaysia received an honorable mention.
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You must choose one writer, and the entirety of their work appears in your bookshelf. The catch? All the other books in your home disappear. Who are you reading?
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We are so thrilled to see Amanda Gorman as the youngest inaugural poet in history. She joins extraordinary company.
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Welcome to our Kenyon Review Fellow in Prose,
@evagbo
!
A graduate of
@UChicago
&
@umichWriters
, she's at work on a novel about shapeshifting mothers, drawing from African diaspora folklore to investigate questions of inheritance, displacement, & memory.
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Welcome to our new Kenyon Review Fellow in Poetry,
@youmayknowthis
!
A graduate of
@Cornell_MFA
, she is a writer and educator from Chicago. She is currently at work on her first collection of poetry.
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Thrilled for our intern
@bealestreetpoet
, winner of the 2020
@adroitjournal
Prize for Poetry! His work was selected by
@jerichobrown
. Former Young Writer
@stephchaang
was a runner-up. KR Associate
@emoretajr
was a finalist. Congratulations to all!
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Our submission period is now open! Send us your poetry, prose, plays and translations:
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We're at the halfway point for our Short Nonfiction Contest! With the holidays swiftly approaching, it wouldn't hurt to submit a little on the earlier side! Link below for all the details.
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In the face of COVID-19, the Kenyon Review has temporarily made our magazine free through
@ProjectMUSE
. We hope to help scholars, libraries, and readers around the world discover and access valuable writing during these challenging times.
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