GAMBIER, Ohio—The Kenyon Review, one of the nation's best-known and most honored literary magazines, has announced that it will begin accepting submissions for the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers on November 1. High school sophomores and juniors throughout the world are invited to participate.

This is the third year for the contest, whose winner receives a full scholarship to the magazine's Young Writers workshop next summer. Young Writers is a two-week program for high school students (ages 16-18) who wish to develop their creative and critical abilities with language and to become better and more insightful writers.

The winning poem will be published in The Kenyon Review, as will the poems submitted by the first two runners-up. The semi-finalists' poems will be featured online at the magazine's web site, www.kenyonreview.org.

Submissions will be accepted beginning November 1, 2005 and concluding November 30, 2005. Entries must be submitted through the Kenyon Review's web site, where a special entry form will be available.

The contest is named in honor of Patricia Grodd in recognition of her generous support of The Kenyon Review and its programs, as well as her passionate commitment to education and deep love for poetry. Ms. Grodd is a member of the Kenyon Review Board of Trustees.

In addition to publishing the Kenyon Review, sponsoring the Young Writers workshop, offering the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, and presenting the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, the magazine's staff operates two annual summer program for adult writers: the Writers Workshop held on the Kenyon College campus, and the Kenyon Review Workshops in Italy, which features programs in fiction writing and the art of reading poetry.

Founded at Kenyon College in 1939 by poet and critic John Crowe Ransom, The Kenyon Review is currently edited by David Lynn, who is a professor of English at the college. Many noted writers have published their early (and later) works in the magazine, among them poet Robert Lowell and novelist Joyce Carol Oates.