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The Kenyon Review
Fiction, flash, essays, poetry, translation
Guidelines summary
- Pays
- 8¢ per published word of prose, $80 minimum, $450 maximum (on publication)
- Length
- Fiction up to 7,500 words; flash up to 3 pieces of 1,000 words each
- Wants
- Fiction, flash, essays, poetry, translation
- Simultaneous submissions
- Yes
- Multiple submissions
- One submission per genre
- Reprints
- No
- Response time
- Aims for six months
- Submissions
- Portal open September 1–30, 2026 Next window by the posted schedule: September 1, 2027.
- Submission or entry fee
- No reading fee for general submissions
- Rights
- Author keeps copyright
- Last checked
- October 31, 2026
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