David Lynn
Welcome to the new Kenyon Review website! We’re very excited.
This fifth (or is it sixth?) generation of the site has come about as a result of listening to our readers and online visitors. Last year, as you may recall, we conducted a series of surveys and discovered that other…
Why We Chose It
By David Lynn, Editor So I’m reading unsolicited submissions. Some fail to grab me at all. Others get off to a good start, only to flag, to wither. Ah well. Open another. “It’s seven in the morning on a Thursday,…
KR Reading Period Begins September 15
The Kenyon Review will begin accepting submissions through its online submissions site on September 15, 2011 and the submissions period will continue through January 15, 2012. Short fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and translations will be accepted for both the magazine…
NEVER-ENDING BIRDS in paper!
Usually I do my best to remain as unbiased as taste and age allow when it comes to discussing books, but in this case I’m delighted to be entirely and unashamedly biased in mentioning that Never-Ending Birds has been released…
Why We Chose It
By David Lynn, Editor In a recent message to me just after I’d accepted her new book review on Thomas Sayers Ellis’ Skin, Inc. for KROnline, Kascha Semonovitch mentioned that the task had been “a challenge and a pleasure.” She’s…




