The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers by Kenyon Review [Win a Full Scholarship to Their Workshop & a Publication]: Submit Entries by Nov 30!

Kenyon Review is inviting submissions for The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers. Submit your entries by Nov 30, 2023!

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 their 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.

The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize, created in 2007 to recognize outstanding young poets, is open to high school sophomores and juniors. The contest is named in honour of Patricia Grodd in recognition of her generous support of the Kenyon Review and its programs, as well as her passionate commitment to education and deep love for poetry.

Every year, submissions for the prize are accepted electronically from November 1 through November 30.

Every submission will be read. The response time will vary according to the volume of submissions, though they 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.

They 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 must be postmarked before 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

The winner receives a full scholarship to the 2023 Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop. The winner and two runners-up will have their selected poems published in the print edition of the Kenyon Review and on their website.

To submit your entries, click here.

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