Winter Online Workshops for Adults

We’re also pleased to offer online workshops for adults this winter! Like all of our workshops, these classes will focus on generating new writing, but instead of working with just one instructor, participants get to study with three different authors in their genre. Fiction writers will work with Rachel Heng, Lillian Li, and Jamie Quatro; poets with Tiana Clark, Richie Hofmann, and Natalie Shapero; and creative nonfiction writers with Hanif Abdurraqib, Paisley Rekdal, and a third author to be announced. The six-week workshops will meet for two hours every Saturday, beginning January 28, 2023. Applications must be submitted between November 15, 2022, and December 15, 2022.

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2023 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize: Submit Now

Today we open for entries to our annual Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers. High school sophomores and juniors, submit your poems by November 30! The winner will receive a scholarship to our Young Writers Workshops and be published in the Kenyon Review. The final judge for the contest is poet Ruth Awad.

Leslie Jamison to Judge Nonfiction Contest

We’re delighted to announce that our 2023 Short Nonfiction Contest will be judged by Leslie Jamison. Jamison teaches in the Columbia University MFA program, where she directs the nonfiction concentration. She is the author of the essay collections The Empathy Exams (a New York Times bestseller) and Make It Scream, Make It Burn, the novel The Gin Closet, and the critical memoir The Recovering. Her work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Oxford American, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Believer.

The Short Nonfiction Contest is open December 1 through December 31, 2022. The winner will receive a scholarship to our summer Writers Workshops and be published in the Kenyon Review. Any writer who has not yet published a book of nonfiction is eligible. Essay submissions must be no longer than 3,000 words.

For full guidelines, click here.