Short Fiction Prize Introduction

• Published in: The Kenyon review Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 3 - 5
• Main Author: Lobanov-Rostovsky, Sergei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Gambier Kenyon College 01-01-2011; Kenyon Review
• Subjects: 2010 KENYON REVIEW SHORT FICTION PRIZE; Achievements and awards; Erdrich, Louise; Fiction; Literary magazines; Literary newspapers and periodicals; Literary prizes; O Connor, Flannery (1925-1964); Ransom, John Crowe (1888-1974); Short stories; United States
• ISSN: 0163-075X; 2327-8307

[...]any literary magazine can easily fill its pages with polished work by established authors at the height of their literary powers. The Kenyon Review has a long tradition of publishing young writers: the 2010 recipient of the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, W. S. Merwin, was selected by the magazine's first editor, John Crowe Ransom, to receive one of two Kenyon Review fellowships to support his writing in 1954, when he was first coming onto the literary scene at age twenty-seven. In one final uncanny moment the young woman in "Death Threat" understands that her father is a person mourning, and afraid, in a world filled with power and pain.