GAMBIER, Ohio—The Kenyon Review, one of the nation’s best-known and most-honored literary magazines, has announced that it is accepting submissions for The Kenyon Review Poetry Prize for Young Writers . High-school sophomores and juniors from throughout the country are invited to participate.

This is the inaugural year for the contest, whose winner will receive a full scholarship to the magazine’s Young Writers workshop this summer. Young Writers is a two-week program for high-school students (ages sixteen to eighteen) who wish to develop their creative and critical abilities with language and to become better and more insightful writers.

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

Submissions will be accepted beginning February 1, 2004, and concluding March 1, 2004. Entries should be submitted to The Kenyon Review at the web site, where a special entry form will be available from February 1 through March 1.

In addition to publishing The Kenyon Review, sponsoring the Young Writers Workshop, offering a yearly poetry prize for adults, and presenting the annual Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement , the magazine’s staff operates an annual summer programs for adult writers. The Writers Workshop is an eight-day opportunity for writers to create new work or refine works-in-progress while consulting with the workshop’s instructors, all of them well-known writers.

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.