Accepting submissions during the month of February, 2012. Nancy Zafris is the final judge. No entry fee. Winning story is published in The Kenyon Review, and the author receives a tuition scholarship to 2012 KR Writers Workshop program. Complete guidelines and contest details–as well as the winning stories from prior contests–after the jump.
“I’ve learned that every story I attempt to write will succeed or fail in a new way every single time. Writing isn’t a science. Dedication and craft will only get one so far. The other elements are mysterious, but I’m growing convinced that one of those elements is luck.”
Jake Adam York rounds up thoughts by Mary McNamara, Erika Meitner, Beth Ann Fennelly and Joel Brouwer and further considers the fate of the project vs. non-project book in poetry contests.
Featuring a poem by Lucia Perillo, short fiction by Karin Lin-Greenberg, and two book reviews: Aimee Pokwatka reviews Caitlin Horrocks’ This is Not Your City and John Steen reviews Claude Royet-Journoud’s The Whole of Poetry is Preposition.
Young Writers is a powerful writing experience designed for writers aged 16 to 18 years. Follow the link to learn more about the program and program dates, read about the unique curriculum, answer questions at the faqs, learn about the application process and deadline, and watch two videos that help explain the experience and the setting.
Join us for our spring reading series! Spring 2012 will feature Amit Majmudar, Andrew Hudgins, Andy Grace, and Michael Dumanis.
2012 instructors include Lee K. Abbot, David Baker, Geeta Kothari, Rebecca McClanahan, Dinty W. Moore, Carl Phillips, Jake Adam York, and Nancy Zafris. Learn more by following the link!
“I love to watch the swallows at sundown,
swarming after invisible things to eat.
Were we so lucky,
A full gullet, and never having to look at what it is,
Sunshine all over our backs.”
–from The Last Word, by Charles Wright
Because the old feeder feeds nothing
but squirrels, who are crafty and have learned
how to hang so it swings sideways until
gravity takes the seed—I bumble down
to this store of bird knick-knacks and
lensware for the geeks, and while
the clerk is ringing up my Mini
Bandit Buster ($29.95), spring-loaded
…
You’re a bus driver now. And tonight is Halloween, which means drunk college students riding the bus to and from parties. Eventually someone will make a mess—vomit, vampire makeup smeared on a window, a can of soda sloshed onto the…
Caitlin Horrocks has chops. In her debut collection of short stories, This Is Not Your City, there are sensitively rendered characters, nimble shifts in points of view,…
Keith Waldrop’s translation of Claude Royet-Journoud’s volume of fragments and aphorisms,…
A micro-interview with Don Waters by KR Associate Jill Hanley. Don Waters is the author of the story collection Desert Gothic. His story “Estray” was featured in the Winter 2012 issue of KR. Can you identify the seed of inspiration…
Why We Chose It – Cover Edition, New Novel Writing Workshop, Mark Strand and John Frederick Nims, and more . . .
Holiday Reading Recommendations from The Kenyon Review!
Why We Chose It, KR Literary Festival, Grodd Prize, KR Fellowships, A KR Conversation with Weston Cutter, and more.
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