Misplaced Pages

#465534

27-635: The Kenyon Review is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio , home of Kenyon College . The Review was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom , critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959 . The Review has published early works by generations of important writers, including Robert Penn Warren , Ford Madox Ford , Robert Lowell , Delmore Schwartz , Flannery O'Connor , and others. The magazine's short stories have won more O. Henry Awards than any other nonprofit journal—42 in all. Many poems that first appeared in

54-445: A circulation of 4,500. Marilyn Hacker , a poet, became the magazine's first full-time editor in 1990. "She quickly broadened the quarterly's scope to include more minority and marginalized viewpoints," according to the magazine. In April 1994, the college trustees directed that costs be cut and revenues increased in various ways. Hacker left and an English professor at the college, David H. Lynn (acting editor in 1989–1990), took over on

81-547: A two-thirds time basis, becoming the longest-serving editor of the publication. The publication's finances have stabilized and improved, and a Kenyon Review Board of Trustees has been set up. The Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize, established in 2008, is awarded annually to a writer who has not previously published a work of fiction. Cara Blue Adams won the inaugural contest, judged by novelist Alice Hoffman , while Nick Ripatrazone and Megan Mayhew Bergman were named runners-up. The "Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement"

108-850: Is an American author born in New Hampshire , raised in Vermont, and resident in Brooklyn, New York. She won the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 2021 for her debut collection of short stories, You Never Get It Back. Her short fiction also won The Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize in 2008 and was first-runner up for the Blue Mesa Review Fiction Prize in 2010. Her work has appeared in many journals, including The Kenyon Review , Narrative Magazine and The Sun . She earned her MFA degree from

135-1196: The Westminster Review (1824), The Spectator (1828), and Athenaeum (1828). In the United States, early journals included the Philadelphia Literary Magazine (1803–1808), the Monthly Anthology (1803–11), which became the North American Review , the Yale Review (founded in 1819), The Yankee (1828–1829) The Knickerbocker (1833–1865), Dial (1840–44) and the New Orleans–based De Bow's Review (1846–80). Several prominent literary magazines were published in Charleston, South Carolina , including The Southern Review (1828–32) and Russell's Magazine (1857–60). The most prominent Canadian literary magazine of

162-761: The National Endowment for the Arts , which created a committee to distribute support money for this burgeoning group of publishers called the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM). This organisation evolved into the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). Many prestigious awards exist for works published in literary magazines including the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Awards . Literary magazines also provide many of

189-574: The 19th century was the Montreal-based Literary Garland . The North American Review , founded in 1815, is the oldest American literary magazine. However, it had its publication suspended during World War II, and the Yale Review (founded in 1819) did not; thus the Yale journal is the oldest literary magazine in continuous publication. Begun in 1889, Poet Lore is considered the oldest journal dedicated to poetry. By

216-1083: The Arts, and New Ideas , which began publication in 1951 in England, the Paris Review , which was founded in 1953, The Massachusetts Review and Poetry Northwest , which were founded in 1959, X Magazine , which ran from 1959 to 1962, and the Denver Quarterly , which began in 1965. The 1970s saw another surge in the number of literary magazines, with a number of distinguished journals getting their start during this decade, including Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art , Ploughshares , The Iowa Review , Granta , Agni , The Missouri Review , and New England Review . Other highly regarded print magazines of recent years include The Threepenny Review , The Georgia Review , Ascent , Shenandoah , The Greensboro Review , ZYZZYVA , Glimmer Train , Tin House , Half Mystic Journal ,

243-518: The Canadian magazine Brick , the Australian magazine HEAT , and Zoetrope: All-Story . Some short fiction writers, such as Steve Almond , Jacob M. Appel and Stephen Dixon have built national reputations in the United States primarily through publication in literary magazines. The Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers (COSMEP) was founded by Richard Morris in 1968. It

270-521: The E. L. Doctorow Fund to provide additional scholarship support to a student committed to arts and literature. Poetry editor David Baker , in a 2019 interview, provided information on submissions and the process. The magazine receives over 3,000 submissions a year (batches, not individual poems), and publishes some 50 of them per year in the print version, another 25 in the annual "Nature's Nature" feature on ecopoetics (published May-June). Of those 75, perhaps 15 or 20 are solicited, and so around 60 come via

297-473: The award in 2003, while poet Seamus Heaney won it in 2004. The 2005 honorees were Umberto Eco , the novelist, and Roger Angell , the New Yorker fiction editor and baseball writer. In 2006 Ian McEwan received the award; Margaret Atwood followed in 2007, and Pulitzer Prize winning Independence Day author Richard Ford in 2008. In 2009 Louise Erdrich was honored, and in 2010 poet W.S. Merwin received

SECTION 10

#1732772598466

324-477: The award recognized American poet and essayist Rita Dove , a National Humanities and National Medal of Arts recipient, Pulitzer Prize winner and past U.S. poet laureate. In 2019, novelist, short story writer and USC Distinguished Professor of English T. C. Boyle received the award. While no award event took place in 2020, in 2021 the Board of Trustees honored its long serving editor, now editor emeritus, David Lynn as

351-423: The award. Historian, essayist and critic Simon Schama was the winner in 2011. Author and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel received the honor in 2012. In 2013 the poet Carl Phillips received the award, followed by novelist Ann Patchett in 2014. Roger Rosenblatt , author and playwright, won in 2015. The Kenyon Review honored author Hilary Mantel in 2016, and in 2017 acknowledged author Colm Toibin . In 2018,

378-514: The end of the century, literary magazines had become an important feature of intellectual life in many parts of the world. One of the most notable 19th century literary magazines of the Arabic-speaking world was Al-Urwah al-Wuthqa . Among the literary magazines that began in the early part of the 20th century is Poetry magazine. Founded in 1912, it published T. S. Eliot 's first poem, " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ". Another

405-574: The evolution of independent literary journals. There are thousands of other online literary publications and it is difficult to judge the quality and overall impact of this relatively new publishing medium. Little magazines, or "small magazines", are literary magazines that often publish experimental literature and the non-conformist writings of relatively unknown writers. Typically they had small readership, were financially uncertain or non-commercial, were irregularly published and showcased artistic innovation. Cara Blue Adams Cara Blue Adams

432-563: The first literary magazine; it was established by Pierre Bayle in France in 1684. Literary magazines became common in the early part of the 19th century, mirroring an overall rise in the number of books, magazines, and scholarly journals being published at that time. In Great Britain , critics Francis Jeffrey , Henry Brougham and Sydney Smith founded the Edinburgh Review in 1802. Other British reviews of this period included

459-574: The first reviews in English of Tristes Tropiques and A Clockwork Orange . A decade after Ransom left the magazine, in 1969, Kenyon College closed it down as the magazine's reputation dropped and financial burdens continued. In 1979, the quarterly was started up again under Kenyon College President Phillip Hardin Jordan Jr. with Kenyon Professors of English Fred Turner, Ron Sharp, and William Klein as its editors. In 1989, The Kenyon Review had

486-964: The magazine "perhaps the best known and most influential literary magazine in the English-speaking world during the 1940s and '50s". In 1959 Robie Macauley succeeded Ransom as editor of The Kenyon Review , where he published fiction and poetry by John Barth , T. S. Eliot , Nadine Gordimer , Robert Graves , Randall Jarrell , Richmond Lattimore , Doris Lessing , Robert Lowell , V. S. Naipaul , Joyce Carol Oates , Frank O'Connor , V. S. Pritchett , Thomas Pynchon , J. F. Powers , Karl Shapiro , Jean Stafford , Christina Stead , Peter Taylor , and Robert Penn Warren , as well as articles, essays and book reviews by Eric Bentley , Cleanth Brooks , R. P. Blackmur , Malcolm Cowley , Richard Ellmann , Leslie Fiedler , Martin Green , and Raymond Williams . During Macauley's tenure The Kenyon Review published

513-566: The most influential—though radically different—journals of the last half of the 20th century were The Kenyon Review ( KR ) and the Partisan Review . The Kenyon Review , edited by John Crowe Ransom , espoused the so-called New Criticism . Its platform was avowedly unpolitical. Although Ransom came from the South and published authors from that region, KR also published many New York–based and international authors. The Partisan Review

540-600: The nineteenth recipient of the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. Walter Mosley was given the award in 2023. Proceeds from the annual dinner go to the Kenyon Review's endowment fund, which supports both the magazine and the scholarships and fellowships to the Review's summer writing programs. In 2017, members of the Board of Trustees of Kenyon College, Kenyon Review and Gund Gallery established

567-482: The open submission route. More poems are published in the Kenyon Review Online . A group of trained student associates do part of the first reading and they have the right to reject; it takes two such rejections before a poem is actually rejected. Baker does the final selection, and David Lynn does the "final sign-off". Literary magazine Nouvelles de la république des lettres is regarded as

SECTION 20

#1732772598466

594-1020: The pieces in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Essays annual volumes. SwiftCurrent , created in 1984, was the first online literary magazine. It functioned as more of a database of literary works than a literary publication. In 1995, the Mississippi Review was the first large literary magazine to launch a fully online issue. By 1998, Fence and Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern were published and quickly gained an audience. Around 1996, literary magazines began to appear more regularly online. At first, some writers and readers dismissed online literary magazines as not equal in quality or prestige to their print counterparts, while others said that these were not properly magazines and were instead ezines . Since then, though, many writers and readers have accepted online literary magazines as another step in

621-546: The quarterly have been reprinted in The Best American Poetry series, and the magazine is one of the most frequent sources for the series, where poems originally in The Kenyon Review have appeared in the editions for 1992 , 1993 , 1994 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , and 2006 . The magazine was started in 1939. During his 21-year tenure as editor, John Crowe Ransom made

648-679: Was The Bellman , which began publishing in 1906 and ended in 1919, was edited by William Crowell Edgar and was based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other important early-20th century literary magazines include The Times Literary Supplement (1902), Southwest Review (1915), Virginia Quarterly Review (1925), World Literature Today (founded in 1927 as Books Abroad before assuming its present name in 1977), Southern Review (1935), and New Letters (1935). The Sewanee Review , although founded in 1892, achieved prominence largely thanks to Allen Tate , who became editor in 1944. Two of

675-414: Was an attempt to organize the energy of the small presses. Len Fulton, editor and founder of Dustbook Publishing, assembled and published the first real list of these small magazines and their editors in the mid-1970s. This made it possible for poets to pick and choose the publications most amenable to their work and the vitality of these independent publishers was recognized by the larger community, including

702-630: Was created in 2002 to honor careers of extraordinary literary achievement, recognizing writers whose influence and importance have shaped the American literary landscape. It celebrates writers for the courage of their vision, their unparalleled imagination, and for the beauty of their art. The award is presented at a gala benefit dinner each year in New York City. The first award was presented to novelist E .L. Doctorow (Kenyon College '52). Novelist and short-story writer Joyce Carol Oates received

729-613: Was first associated with the American Communist Party and the John Reed Club ; however, it soon broke ranks with the party. Nevertheless, politics remained central to its character, while it also published significant literature and criticism. The middle-20th century saw a boom in the number of literary magazines, which corresponded with the rise of the small press . Among the important journals which began in this period were Nimbus: A Magazine of Literature,

#465534