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The Kenyon Review
An International Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts
Walton House
104 College Drive
Gambier, OH 43022
Phone: (740) 427-5208
E-mail: kenyonreview[at]kenyon[dot]edu
Web: www.kenyonreview.org
Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: no Reading period: 9/15-1/15 Response time: Approx. 4 months Payment: copies, yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 0163-075X Founded: 1939 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Ingram, Media Solutions Average pages: 200 Copy Price: $10 Sample price (postpaid) $10 Subscription (Individuals): $30 Subscription (Libraries): $35
Publisher's Description: Presenting the best writing of today, while shaping literature's tomorrow. Introducing new voices alongside the most respected writers of our generation. Showcasing writing that breaks new ground, illuminates, and expands your point of view. This is the mission of The Kenyon Review and its distinguished legacy.
Vibrant poetry, brilliant short stories, thoughtful essays that shed light on our culture and give greater meaning to our lives: The Kenyon Review offers this and more every quarter. For nearly 70 years, KR has been the most honored literary review--not only in this country, but throughout the world.
Recent years have seen the work of such writers as Tom Sleigh, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Janet Peery, Ron Rash, George Steiner, and Romulus Linney appear in the pages of KR, along with authors who are emerging as the bright lights of the next generation, such as Roy Kesey, Meghan O'Rourke, and Holly Goddard Jones. Issue after issue, the quarterly magazine showcases the finest writing to be found.
Recent issues:
The first issue of the new year (34.1, Winter 2012) features the winners of our Short Fiction Contest: Fan Li, Anna Kovatcheva, and Michols Ford Malick. Plus fiction by Don Waters, Erin Stalcup, Beth Bosworth, Megan Mayhew Bergman; nonfiction by Roger Rosenblatt, C. S. Giscombe, Robert Hahn; poetry by Sydney Lea, Gretel Ehrlich, David St. John, Marilyn Hacker, Michael Collier, Randall Mann, T. R. Hummer, Joanna Klink, Mark Strand, and Charles Wright.
The Fall 2011 issue features the winner and runners up of the 2011 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers; a symposium on John Keats; drama by Talaya Delaney; fiction by T. C. Boyle, Erin McGraw, Lionel Trilling, Keya Mitra, Melinda Moustakis; nonfiction by Randy Fertel and Jeffrey Meyers; plus poetry by Mary Szybist, Eric Pankey, Kazim Ali, Weston Cutter, Ted Kooser, Jean Portante translated by Zoe Skoulding, Katherine Painter, and Christopher Patton.
The Summer 2011 issue features fiction by Ron Carlson, Vladimir Makanin, E.B. Vandiver, Jennifer duBois, Rachel Cantor and Robert Pope; nonfiction by Matt Donovan, Rod Mengham and Jeffrey Meyers; and poetry by Alice Fulton, Bruce Beasley, Katy Didden, Maureen McLane, Jennifer Militello, Adam Zagajewski, David Bottoms, Rodney Jones, Stanley Plumly, Grace Shluman, and Frank X. Gaspar.
The Spring 2011 issue of KR features fiction by Kelly Cherry, Seth Fried, Theodore Wheeler, Alexei Bayer, A.R. Rea, Robert Yune, and Hasanthika Sirisena; an essay by Andrew Hudgins; poetry by Roger Desy, Katherine Larson, Albert Goldbarth, Kevin Young, Andrew Wells, Marilyn Hacker and Deema Shehabi; and reviews by Jeffrey Meyers and Cynthia Haven