Kenyon Review Fellowships

06/02/2021

We're launching a new editorial fellowship today.

The Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers is designed to nurture and develop new voices in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. It is designed to provide support for emerging writers who demonstrate exceptional talent, promise, and commitment to their chosen craft.

Participation in the program involves one-on-one mentorship by an experienced editor over a period of four months. Writers can expect to have monthly hour-long conversations with an Editor who will provide feedback and suggestions on the draft.

Learn more and apply by July 15:
https://kenyonreview.org/.../developmental-editing.../

We've just opened for applications to The Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers.

This fellowship is designed to nurture and develop new voices in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. It is designed to provide support for emerging writers who demonstrate exceptional talent, promise, and commitment to their chosen craft.

Participation in the program involves one-on-one mentorship by an experienced editor over a period of four months. Writers can expect to have monthly hour-long conversations with an Editor who will provide feedback and suggestions on the draft.

Learn more and apply by July 15:
https://kenyonreview.org/programs/developmental-editing-fellowship/

06/01/2021

We're pleased to announce the new Kenyon Review 2021-22 Fellows: Elinam Agbo and Cristina Correa!

Elinam Agbo is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she co-founded MQR Mixtape, an online imprint of Michigan Quarterly Review. She is at work on a novel about shapeshifting mothers, drawing from African diaspora folklore to investigate questions of inheritance, displacement, & memory.

Cristina Correa is a writer and educator from Chicago, where she served at-risk and marginalized youth, recovering addicts, artists, and scholars for more than a decade. Her poem “Reflection from a Bridge” was selected by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith in the Best New Poets series. She holds degrees in creative writing and Latinx studies, and most recently earned an MFA at Cornell University. She is currently at work on her first collection of poems.

Please welcome them!
https://kenyonreview.org/programs/fellowship/

04/22/2021

KR Fellow in Poetry Molly McCully Brown and her coauthor Susannah Nevison are on the Poetry Foundation podcast talking about Gmail poems, pot roast, and the legacy of pain.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/155852/wild-at-the-root?fbclid=IwAR2hW7e4sFxXoB4NuBUvKezI-tOGFyC-ZWXAq7b6bT9dtjn9Jm6x3WZfyZY

Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison on Gmail poems, pot roast, and the legacy of pain.

11/30/2020

The deadline for the Kenyon Review fellowships is tomorrow, December 1!

Please apply now:

About the KR Fellowships In 2012, The Kenyon Review welcomed the first of its KR Fellows. This initiative was inspired by the great tradition of Kenyon Review literary fellowships awarded in the 1950s to writers such as Flannery O’Connor and W.S. Merwin in their formative years. These fellowships ...

11/10/2020

Are you interested in a two-year fellowship writing and teaching at Kenyon College? Applications are open! Please apply by December 1!

About the KR Fellowships In 2012, The Kenyon Review welcomed the first of its KR Fellows. This initiative was inspired by the great tradition of Kenyon Review literary fellowships awarded in the 1950s to writers such as Flannery O’Connor and W.S. Merwin in their formative years. These fellowships ...

10/19/2020

Pádraig Ó Tuama talks about KR Fellow Molly McCully Brown's poem "Transubstantiation" in On Being:

A poet considers how a place that others might pass through “looks like home.”

10/06/2020

We will accept applications for Kenyon Review Fellowships from November 1 to December 1, 2020.

Please submit:
A one-page cover letter
A curriculum vitae
A writing sample
An unofficial transcript
Two letters of recommendation, one of which should directly address the applicant’s teaching ability

Details here: https://kenyonreview.org/programs/fellowship/

10/01/2020

New essay in On Books & Their Harbors by our poetry fellow Molly McCully Brown: "When the staff at Square Books tweeted a picture of my new collection on their shelf and a reminder that they’d mail new releases out to readers—wherever they were—I thought: Look how a book can cross miles even when we’re stranded. Look, this is what it means to be at home."
https://kenyonreview.org/books-harbors/brown-square-books/

09/16/2020

Did you miss last night's event? Watch Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers's reading in full here:

9/15/2020 Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers (she/her/hers) is the author of Chord Box (University of Arkansas Press, 2013), finalist for both the Miller Williams Priz...