MARCH 2024 NEWSLETTER

Announcing the 2024 Developmental Editing Fellows

We are pleased to announce the 2024 Developmental Editing Fellows. From over seven hundred applications for the fellowship, we selected fellows in three genres: in fiction, Hilary Sun will work with Associate Editor Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky on Lateral Curvatures, a novel; in nonfiction, Edmée Lepercq will work with Senior Editor Katharine Weber on Germination Protocol, an essay collection; and in poetry, Logan Klutse will work with Editor Nicole Terez Dutton on “For an Eye”: The Intersections of Medical Malpractice, West African Immigrant Patients, and Black Diasporic Faith Practices, a book of poetry. These writers will receive one-on-one mentorship and editorial attention for their works in progress over a period of four months. Learn more about the fellows below.

Hilary Sun (she/her) is a disabled Chinese American writer. She was a 2023 Asian American Writers' Workshop Margins Fellow and a Millay Arts resident. Her work can be found in The Adroit Journal, The Rumpus, and The Ending Hasn't Happened Yet (Sable Books, 2022).

Edmée Lepercq is a writer and critic based in London. Her essays have appeared in Orion and the Ilanot Review. Her criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Artforum, and the British Journal of Photography, among others. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Logan Klutse is a poet and playwright from Lakewood, Colorado, whose work has appeared in Ploughshares, Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and as part of exhibitions at the Yale University Art Gallery. He recently graduated from Yale University with B.A.s in English and Theater Studies, and has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, scholarships from the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Community of Writers, and fellowships from the Gordon Grand Fund, the Richter Fund, and the Michael Manzella Foundation. He is currently a 2023–24 Gordon Grand Postgraduate Fellow working on his next play and debut poetry manuscript.

Book Launch Event with Cindy Juyoung Ok and Diana Khoi Nguyen

On Tuesday, March 19, at 4:15 pm ET, join us in Finn House’s Cheever Room to celebrate the publication of Ward Toward by KR Fellow Cindy Juyoung Ok and Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen. The authors will read from their work, and a Q&A with the audience will follow. Free and open to the public!

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Young Writers Summer Online Workshop Applications Now Open

Applications for Young Writers Summer Online Workshops are now open and close on April 15.

These week-long workshops for high-school-age writers include daily synchronous Zoom workshops, interspersed with solo writing time and one-on-one instructor conferences. Additional events include readings by visiting writers, craft talks, participant readings, and informal social gatherings. Workshops run June 16–21, with afternoon sessions 12:30–4:00 pm ET and evening sessions 7:30–11:00 pm ET. Learn more here about the program and how to apply.

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Summer Online Adult Writers Workshop Applications Now Open

Applications for Summer Online Adult Writers Workshops have opened and close on April 12! Designed for writers who can’t take time off for a residential workshop, these online programs offer a single intensive week of generative writing workshops. Both workshops run June 24–29, 2024, with a welcome hour on June 23 at 3:00 pm ET.

Beginning on Monday, June 24, Genre-Specific Summer Online Adult Workshops participants will attend workshops 1:00–4:00 pm each day. Workshops will involve discussion of assigned reading, sharing individual writing, workshopping each other’s writing, and writing in response to prompts. Faculty includes Heather Christle, Davon Loeb, and Rebecca McClanahan in nonfiction, E.J. Levy, Robert Lopez, DK Nnuro, A.E. Osworth, Nick White, and Ada Zhang in fiction, and Ruth Awad, Victoria Chang, Tyree Daye, Jesse Nathan, Shelley Wong, and Felicia Zamora in poetry, Christian Gullette, Cindy Juyoung Ok, and Kelsi Vanada in translation. The translation workshop is for the “translation curious”—no need ever to have translated before! Learn more on our site and apply here.

Instructed by T Clark and Brad Richard, the Summer Online Writers Workshop for Teachers takes place daily, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm ET. Like the genre-specific workshops, these sessions will involve discussion of assigned reading, sharing individual writing, workshopping each other’s writing, and writing in response to prompts; geared toward middle and high school teachers, they will also involve the collection of best writing practices to take back to the classroom. Learn more on our site and apply here.

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News from the KR Community

Some recent items of good news from the KR community!

Workshop faculty Kelsi Vanada and contributor Daisy Rockwell were named NEA Translation Fellows.

Workshop participant Dara T. Mathis won the 2024 American Mosaic Journalism Prize, the largest media award in the United States.

The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses featured Black Estrangement, the special online issue guest edited by Elinam Agbo, for Black History Month and featured Summer 2023’s Women’s Health folio for Women’s History Month.

Workshop faculty Dan Beachy-Quick and participant Yamini Pathak converse in an online exclusive for Poets & Writers .

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The Kenyon Review is supported in part by generous grants from the Ohio Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Smart Family Foundation.