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Our application period for winter online workshops for writers aged 16–18 has opened! The classes will run every Saturday January 20 – February 24, 2024, with options for afternoon (1:00–3:30 pm ET) or evening (7:00–9:30 pm ET) sessions. These workshops offer an intimate setting for exploring a specific genre, craft element, or theme. Visit our website to learn more about specific class offerings, instructors, and eligibility. All application materials are due December 10, 2023, so apply today!
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We’re also pleased to offer online workshops this winter for adult writers. Participants in these generative workshops get to study with three different authors in their genre. Nonfiction writers will work with Shannon Gibney, Michael Kleber-Diggs, and Grace Talusan. Poets will work with Taylor Byas, Tina Cane, Leila Chatti, Anthony Cody, Marlin Jenkins, and Pádraig Ó Tuama. Fiction writers will work with Jamil Jan Kochai, Karin Lin-Greenberg, Lincoln Michel, Joseph Earl Thomas, and Erika T. Wurth. More faculty to be announced in both poetry and fiction! Classes will run every Saturday, 2:00–4:00 pm ET, January 20 – March 2, 2024. The application period closes on December 10, 2023. Visit our website to learn more and to apply!
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Summer Residential Adult Writers Workshops: Applications Open December 11
Once Winter Online Adult Writers Workshops applications close, Summer Residential Adult Writers Workshops open! Faculty include Melissa Faliveno, Rajiv Mohabir, Elena Passarello, and Dinty W. Moore in nonfiction, Mitchell S. Jackson, Cleyvis Natera, Bennett Sims, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Ghassan Zeineddine in fiction, and David Baker, Dan Beachy-Quick, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Airea D. Matthews, Alan Shapiro, Natalie Shapero, and Paul Tran in poetry, with more to be announced. Choose between two sessions running on the Kenyon College campus in Gambier, OH, June 9–15 and July 7–13, 2024. Learn more at our website!
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Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers: Submissions Now Open
We will receive entries to the annual Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers until November 30, 2023. High school sophomores and juniors may submit one poem for consideration. It is free to enter. The winner will receive a full scholarship to our Young Writers Workshop, and the poems selected as winner and runners-up will appear in a print issue of The Kenyon Review. Acclaimed poet Richie Hofmann serves as final judge. Learn more and submit here!
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We are pleased to offer for the first time this year a poetry contest for adult writers!
The final judge of this year’s contest is Pádraig Ó Tuama. Ó Tuama is a poet from Ireland with interests in conflict, religion, and language. His most recent collection is Feed the Beast (Broken Sleep Books, 2022). He presents the podcast Poetry Unbound from On Being Studios, from which Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (Canongate and W.W. Norton, 2022) comes. His work has been published in Harvard Review, Poetry Ireland, Poem-a-Day, and many other places.
The contest winner will receive a full scholarship to attend the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops, and their work will appear in a print issue of The Kenyon Review. Entrants to the contest may claim complimentary half-year subscriptions to The Kenyon Review. Submissions close November 30, so submit today!
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by Geeta Kothari, Senior Editor
“Thunderhead” by Gregory Spatz appears in the Fall 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review.
Set on a dairy farm in the height of summer, “Thunderhead” by Gregory Spatz begins ominously, in the middle of a fight between two boys, David on his back, pinned down and “bucking against Scott to no avail, twisting, writhing, his wrists squeezed in the viselike grip of Scott’s hands.” Instead of telling us what is going on—and it doesn’t sound good at all—Spatz interrupts the moment.
Read the rest of the Why We Chose It here.
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Our fiction contest, which opens January 1, will be judged by lauded novelist, poet, and translator Idra Novey. Her most recent novel, Take What You Need, was selected as one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 so far. Her first novel, Ways to Disappear, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, and her second novel, Those Who Knew, was a finalist for the 2019 Clark Fiction Prize. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages, and she’s written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. She teaches fiction at Princeton University.
Learn more about our fiction contest here!
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