| 2018 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize | issue | page |
| Kirsten Reach Introduction | 1 | 1 |
| Laura Roque Dientes for Dentures | 1 | 3 |
| Tyler Barton Spiritual Introduction to the Neighborhood | 1 | 6 |
| Christopher Fox Breaking | 1 | 10 |
| 2019 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers | issue | page |
| Richie Hofmann Introduction | 5 | 70 |
| Jay Martin November Picnic with Louise | 5 | 72 |
| Martha Shaffer Stars | 5 | 73 |
| Stephanie Chang Post Meridiem | 5 | 75 |
| Nature's Nature | issue | page |
| David Baker Introduction | 3 | 1 |
| Bruce Beasley Sufficient Unto the Day Is the Trouble Thereof; Argus and Mole | 3 | 21 |
| Andrea Cohen Nightshade; Dust; Gaucin | 3 | 36 |
| Caroline Crew Moon Tree Experiment …; The Farmhouse … | 3 | 41 |
| Lynn Domina Do Carnivorous Plants Experience Hunger? | 3 | 19 |
| Eugene Gloria In the Andes | 3 | 27 |
| Benjamin S. Grossberg In My Forty-Seventh Year; Catawba | 3 | 38 |
| Garrett Hongo Passion Fruit | 3 | 6 |
| Yun-fei Ji Eight Neighbors; The Wreckage; The Loudspeaker's Song | 3 | 11 |
| Ted Kooser Raspberry Patch | 3 | 44 |
| Sandra Eula Lee Day In; MountainMountain; Seeds in a wild garden; The Walking Mountain (series) | 3 | 31 |
| Alessandra Lynch Ire; Forest | 3 | 17 |
| Ruth Madievsky Locusts; Ficus | 3 | 29 |
| Dora Malech Running in Autumn | 3 | 43 |
| Paul Otremba Climate Is Something Different; Doctrine of that Bird Once Worshipped on the Shore | 3 | 8 |
| Nathaniel Perry My Heart in Every Darkness: Watching George Scarbrough Wait | 3 | 46 |
| Stanley Plumly White Rhino; Middle Distance | 3 | 3 |
| Sanki Saitō Three Demons: Sanki Haiku I (Translated from Japanese by Ryan C. K. Choi) | 3 | 25 |
| Chet'la Sebree Nightingale of America | 3 | 35 |
| John Shoptaw A Tree's Shade Speaks of Its Shadow | 3 | 28 |
| Lisa Russ Spaar Wasp; Indigo Bunting Madrigal | 3 | 15 |
| Speak Low | issue | page |
| Natalie Shapero Introduction | 5 | 19 |
| Edwin Alanís-García Parisian Needles | 5 | 34 |
| Tongo Eisen-Martin Cut a Hand from a Hand | 5 | 35 |
| Jameson Fitzpatrick Man with a Movie Camera | 5 | 24 |
| Naoko Fujimoto Low Orbit | 5 | 23 |
| Jennifer L. Knox Finding a Drawer Full of Drivers' Licenses: | 5 | 25 |
| Emily Spencer I'm Not Interested | 5 | 21 |
| Nikki Wallschlaeger William Carlos Williams | 5 | 33 |
| Jillian Weise On Closed Systems | 5 | 27 |
| Roy White Gawker Slowdown | 5 | 26 |
| Fiction | issue | page |
| Segun Afolabi Dear Life | 2 | 22 |
| Kate Berson Dimensions in adirolF | 4 | 51 |
| Elizabeth Brinsfield Snow Line | 2 | 11 |
| Roberto Castillo Sandoval The Laws of Motion | 3 | 82 |
| Jeffrey Condran In Costume | 3 | 59 |
| Robert Coover One Summer (Thomas and Anna) | 5 | 39 |
| Ariel Delgado Dixon Please Be Sure | 4 | 3 |
| Eric Gansworth Secret Identity | 2 | 40 |
| Hanna Halperin Goldstein Experts on Pain | 1 | 23 |
| Ali Hosseini Blue Hills | 3 | 74 |
| Aruni Kashyap After Anthropology | 4 | 63 |
| Margot Livesey Gilbert in Arcadia | 5 | 3 |
| Tom Noyes Charles Guiteau, Who Will Hang … | 2 | 93 |
| Wendy Rawlings Coffins for Kids! | 1 | 63 |
| Courtney Sender For Somebody So Scared | 2 | 78 |
| Nonfiction | issue | page |
| David Brooks Writing Animals | 6 | 71 |
| Andrea J. Buchanan Two Hearts | 4 | 45 |
| Floyd Collins Richard Wilbur: A Retrospective and Appreciation | 4 | 82 |
| Aminatta Forna Why I Write | 6 | 17 |
| Diane Glancy #NoDAPL Protest, North Dakota | 6 | 34 |
| Albert Goldbarth Like | 1 | 91 |
| Sangamithra Iyer Governing Bodies | 1 | 77 |
| Sally Wen Mao On Sparrows | 5 | 77 |
| So Mayer Intimate Alienation, or [blank for your response] | 6 | 54 |
| Kim Scott Writers, Readers, and Activists | 6 | 93 |
| Mairead Small Staid By the Skin of Our Teeth: An Anatomical Notebook | 2 | 98 |
| Brian Trapp Twelve Words | 5 | 94 |
| Poetry | issue | page |
| Aria Aber Can You Describe Your Years in Prison?; Ode to My Hair | 2 | 36 |
| Zaina Alsous Naturalization; Can the Dodo Bird Speak?; An Incomplete Archive of Extinction; Notes from the Gallery of Evolution; Bird Survives the Death of Nature | 4 | 16 |
| Joshua Bennett Trash; Owed to Your Father's Gold Chain | 4 | 41 |
| Elizabeth Bradfield First Walk on Sea Ice; The Fossil Whale; Turnaround Day; The Blinds Must Be Closed by Dusk | 1 | 19 |
| Sandra Cisneros This in the News Unmentioned; I Should Like to Fall in Love with a Burro Named Saturnino | 6 | 12 |
| Brian Cochran Egrets, Regrets | 1 | 41 |
| Kwame Dawes South Carolina, Again; Lagos; The Stink | 6 | 6 |
| Stephen Dunn Pagan Virtues | 4 | 20 |
| Carolyn Forché Water Crisis... |
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