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The Kenyon Review
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The Kenyon Review holds this annual poetry contest for poets who are high school sophomores or juniors. Poems by the winner and runners-up are published in The Kenyon Review, and the winner receives a full scholarship to a Kenyon Review Young Writers workshop. Submissions are open every year from November 1 through November 30, and there is no entry fee.
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