The Kenyon Review has been in the heart of literature since 1939 when poet and critic John Crowe Ransom started the journal on the campus of Kenyon College. Among the writers who have appeared in our pages are T. S. Eliot, Delmore Schwartz, Robert Lowell, Flannery O’Connor, Peter Taylor, Thomas Pynchon, Sylvia Plath, Doris Lessing, Clarice Lispector, Elizabeth Bishop, Nadine Gordimer, Jack Gilbert, Jean Stafford, Edward Said, E. L. Doctorow, Ursula Le Guin, William H. Gass, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Hass, Samuel Beckett, Italo Calvino, Barry Hannah, Derek Walcott, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Oliver, Lewis Hyde, Louise Erdrich, Ha Jin, John Ashbery, Carl Phillips, George Saunders, W. S. Merwin, and Rita Dove.
Every submission will be read. The response time will vary according to the volume of submissions, though we aim to respond to all submissions within six months of receipt.
Payment for accepted work is made upon publication. Authors retain their copyright and will receive a contract upon acceptance.
Here’s the link to our Submittable portal: https://thekenyonreview.submittable.com/submit
We do not accept paper submissions, except from writers (such as those who are incarcerated) who do not have ready access to the internet. Paper submissions for the current submissions period must be postmarked by the current submission period’s deadline and must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Send hard copies to:
SUBMISSIONS
The Kenyon Review
102 W. Wiggin St.
Gambier, OH 43022
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We generally follow the Chicago Manual of Style and Webster’s Eleventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
We are not currently considering the following:
unsolicited interviews
unsolicited book reviews
unsolicited artwork
emailed submissions (please use submittable.com)
previously published material
