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Applications for Summer Online Adult Writers Workshops 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.
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 (see more below!). Learn more on our site and apply here.
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. The faculty are T Clark and Brad Richard. Learn more on our site and apply here.
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If you have any curiosity at all about the art of translation, apply to the translation workshop, part of the Summer Online Adult Workshops! It is open to participants of all levels, no previous experience required. And the faculty is exceptional.
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Professional Swedish-to-English translator Christian Gullette is also the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Coachella Elegy, winner of the Trio House Press Trio Award, and Editor-in-Chief of The Cortland Review. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series (selected by Diane Seuss). | |
Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of the Yale Younger Poets Prize-winning Ward Toward. Her translations are published in journals including Asymptote, Tupelo Quarterly, and Modern Poetry in Translation. | |
Kelsi Vanada’s most recent translations include United Left by Álvaro Lasso, The Visible Unseen by Andrea Chapela, and Damascus, Atlantis: Selected Poems by Marie Silkeberg, which was longlisted for the 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She is also the translator of Sergio Espinosa’s Into Muteness and Berta García Faet’s The Eligible Age, and she received a 2024 Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her work on García Faet’s Una pequeña personalidad linda [A Little Pretty Personality]. Kelsi has also published a chapbook of original poems, Rare Earth, and works as the Program Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). | |
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The deadline to submit an application for Young Writers Summer Online Workshops is April 15 at 11:59 pm PST.
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.
Visit our website to learn more about eligibility, tuition, financial aid, and more. Apply on Submittable.
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The Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest received almost five hundred submissions this year, and it thrills us to share the results. The winner is Jessica Petrow-Cohen. Her essay “On Molting” will appear in an upcoming print issue of The Kenyon Review, and she has received a full scholarship to the Kenyon Review Summer Residential Writing Workshops. Judge Melissa Febos writes, “At once taut and discursive, ‘On Molting’ draws an outline of grief by sketching the contours of a life unmoored by loss, but kept aloft by humor and the pleasures of memory and the mundane.”
Read the full announcement, with Febos’s runners-up and honorable mention selection, on our website.
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The Kenyon Review Welcomes President Julie C. Kornfeld
The Kenyon Review welcomes Kenyon College’s twentieth president, Julie C. Kornfeld, whose inauguration takes place next week. In celebration, the Review will host two events. On Wednesday, April 10, at 4:30 pm ET in Finn House’s Cheever Room, poet and KR contributor Felicia Zamora will give a reading, followed by a Q&A. On Saturday, April 13, at 3:30 pm, Kenyon Review Associates will give another reading in President Kornfeld’s honor, again in Cheever Room. The Associates will read both their own writing and some favorite pieces from The Kenyon Review.
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The Kenyon Review Board of Trustees Welcomes New Members
This spring, the KRBT welcomed two new members: Andrea Danese and Ben Goldberger. Danese has been a banker, entrepreneur, and academic and is an avid fan of both Kenyon College and The Kenyon Review. Goldberger is the former executive director of TIME and an American Studies graduate of Kenyon. We look forward to our future collaborations with them both.
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News from the KR Community
- It saddened us to learn of the passing on March 2 of Dr. James C. Niederman, a trustee emeritus of The Kenyon Review. Dr. Niederman was essential to the resumption of the Review’s publication in 1979 and to its continuation in the 1990s, when it was in danger of being shut down. Read more on the Kenyon College website.
- Kenyon Review staff and contributors were well-represented among recipients of the Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Excellence Awards. Associate Editor Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky and contributor Allegra Hyde earned recognition in Fiction, and Senior Editor Andrew Grace, Editor at Large Maggie Smith, and contributors Felicia Zamora and Philip Metres did in Poetry.
- KR Fellow Cindy Juyoung Ok’s debut Ward Toward, selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Rae Armantrout, came out on March 5. The Kenyon Review celebrated the book’s release and that of Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Root Fractures with a reading in Finn House’s Cheever Room on March 19.
- A number of contributors appeared among the 2024 Lambda Literary Awards finalists: K-Ming Chang for Lesbian Fiction, Ruth Madievsky for Bisexual Fiction, Julie Marie Wade for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction, Maggie Millner for Lesbian Poetry, Mary Jo Bang and Danielle Cadena Deulen for Bisexual Poetry, K. Iver for Transgender Poetry, sam sax for LGBTQ+ Poetry, and Vi Khi Nao for Lesbian Memoir/Biography.
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