Accepting submissions during the month of February, 2012. Nancy Zafris is the final judge. No entry fee. Winning story is published in The Kenyon Review, and the author receives a tuition scholarship to 2012 KR Writers Workshop program. Complete guidelines and contest details–as well as the winning stories from prior contests–after the jump.
. . . and more on KROnline this week: Meghan Kenny takes us to Japan for a measured tale of aging and loss with “The Last Four Seasons”; Suneela Mubayi presents a translation of Adania Shibli’s cross-cultural travelogue “On East-West Dialogue”; And, Angela Voras-Hills offers two poems: “Chateaubriand; Nothing to Undo That Can’t Be Done Again.” Enjoy these new features this week on KRO!
“Frankly, when I’m writing I don’t concern myself with literary audiences. I craft stories that interest me. The attention span that matters the most is my own. It takes a great deal of concentration to hold a story together, to be able to understand how each change sends ripples through a draft. If I can’t focus, I can’t write.”
Young Writers is a powerful writing experience designed for writers aged 16 to 18 years. Follow the link to learn more about the program and program dates, read about the unique curriculum, answer questions at the faqs, learn about the application process and deadline, and watch two videos that help explain the experience and the setting.
Join us for our spring reading series! Spring 2012 will feature Amit Majmudar, Andrew Hudgins, Andy Grace, and Michael Dumanis.
2012 instructors include Lee K. Abbot, David Baker, Geeta Kothari, Rebecca McClanahan, Dinty W. Moore, Carl Phillips, Jake Adam York, and Nancy Zafris. Learn more by following the link!
“I love to watch the swallows at sundown,
swarming after invisible things to eat.
Were we so lucky,
A full gullet, and never having to look at what it is,
Sunshine all over our backs.”
–from The Last Word, by Charles Wright
Love me here, a tangle in the wire, complicate
my limbs with your mouth. Like the trail,
we’re a handful of breadcrumbs, the boy
whispering himself to sleep at the library,
the book slipping from his lap. We haven’t
lived long enough to knot cherry stems
…
Autumn In Hakusan-cho, the maple leaves turned red and orange and yellow. Hiro Tanaguchi thought of many places other than where he was and of many people whom he’d left or who had left him. He was a man who…
I arrive at Lydd airport. At passport control, I present my passport through a small opening in the glass panel to the officer sitting behind it. We wait a little until first three security personnel arrive, then four others—two policemen…
In the late 1990s, I moonlighted as a slap-hitting second baseman for the Kenyon College Lords, one of the most historically inept sports teams in NCAA history.
A micro-interview with Nichols Ford Malick by KR Associate Aaron Lynn. Nichols Ford Malick lives in Oakland, California, with his wife and daughter. He earned an MFA from the University of Oregon. “The Boy in the Lake” is his first…
Why We Chose It – Cover Edition, New Novel Writing Workshop, Mark Strand and John Frederick Nims, and more . . .
Holiday Reading Recommendations from The Kenyon Review!
Why We Chose It, KR Literary Festival, Grodd Prize, KR Fellowships, A KR Conversation with Weston Cutter, and more.
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