Along Middle Path

Making the Cut

A look into the selection process for the Kenyon Review (and how students play a part).

Literary Fellows

Award-winning writers Jamal May and Melinda Moustakis have been named 2014-2016 Kenyon Review Fellows.

Prize-Winning Poetry

Michaela Jenkins, a junior at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina, took first place in this year’s Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers presented by The Kenyon Review.

KR Holiday Reading Recommendations

Each year we ask KR’s friends and contributors for their holiday reading recommendations.

The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

The Kenyon Review-sponsored poetry award recognizes outstanding young poets and is open to high school sophomores and juniors throughout the world. Deadline to enter is November 30, 2013.

Return of the Gospel of Pen and Paper

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers on writing with or without paper.

For a lot of writers out there, this rule seems obvious. There’s a holiness to paper and pen that you can’t reproduce with a computer screen and keyboard. Real writers always write their first drafts by hand, right?