2022 Summer Reading Recommendations

The editors and staff of the Kenyon Review share book recommendations every June. You'll find fiction, nonfiction, and poetry among the selections; click here for the full list. Happy reading!

Pushcart Prize Winners

We’re pleased to announce that four pieces from the Kenyon Review will appear in The Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses (2023 edition), forthcoming in November 2022.

Congratulations to the following four Pushcart Prize winners: 

Marianne Chan for "Autobiography Via Forgetting,” a poem from the May/June 2021 issue.

Danielle Cadena Deulen for “The Uncertainty Principle,” a poem from the July/Aug 2021 issue. 

Bennett Sims for “Unknown,” a story from the Nov/Dec 2021 issue.

Allison Benis White, whose poem “Postcards to M.” appeared in the July/Aug 2021 issue.

2022 Peter Taylor Fellows

Every year, the Kenyon Review awards Peter Taylor Fellowships to a select group of outstanding writers who attend our residential Writers Workshops as both participants and teaching assistants.

This summer we'll welcome these Peter Taylor Fellows to campus:

Ruth Awad, Hannah Bae, Claire Boyles, Lisa Ann Cockrel,

Lisa Cupolo, Corinne Dekkers, Destiny Hemphill, Jennifer Jean,

Kasia Merrill, Mag Gabbert, Cleyvis Natera, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn, Kelly Schoenegge, Angelique Stevens, Paul Tran, and 

Erika T. Wurth.