''The White Review'' is a London-based

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on literature and the visual arts. It is published in print and online.

History

''The White Review'' was founded by editors Benjamin Eastham and Jacques Testard, and released its first issue in print in February 2011. The quarterly print edition was originally designed Ray O'Meara, and carries poetry, short fiction, essays and interviews alongside photography and art. Since 2013 and 2017 ''The White Review'' has administered the influential The White Review Short Story and Poetry Prize respectively. ''The White Review'' website is frequently updated with new web-only content and excerpts from the print edition. The website, like the print edition, carries essays, interviews, poetry and fiction. In an interview with ''

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'', the founding editors stated that ''The White Review'' was intended as "a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre". Talking to US-based magazine ''Bookforum'', they explained that they were inspired to establish a British-based equivalent to publications including '' n+1'', ''Guernica'', ''Cabinet'', ''

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'' and ''Bomb'', while an early interview with ''It's Nice That'' quoted them as saying that the magazine would endeavour to "stay close to new writing and emerging art". After 20 print issues, ''The White Review''s print iteration and website were redesigned, and a new editorial team, led by Francesca Wade and Željka Marošević, was introduced. Following a successful crowdfunding campaign, and in response to the paucity of space for arts and literature criticism in UK publications, ''The White Review'' began publishing book and art show reviews on its website in 2017.

Interviews

Each issue of the journal includes long-form interviews with writers and artists. Notable interview subjects have included

Annie Ernaux Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux (; born 1 September 1940) is a French writer, professor of literature and Nobel laureate. Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology. Ernaux was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize ...

Margo Jefferson Margo Lillian Jefferson (born October 17, 1947) is an American writer and academic. Biography Jefferson received her B.A. from Brandeis University, where she graduated ''cum laude'', and her M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of J ...

Jenny Offill Jenny Offill (born 1968) is an American novelist and editor. Her novel ''Dept. of Speculation'' was named one of "The 10 Best Books of 2014" by ''The New York Times Book Review''. Early life Jenny Offill is the only child of two private-school ...

Claudia Rankine Claudia Rankine (; born September 4, 1963) is an American poet, essayist, playwright and the editor of several anthologies. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, two plays and various essays. Her book of poetry, '' Citizen: An American L ...

Elmgreen and Dragset Michael Elmgreen (born 1961; Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969; Trondheim, Norway) have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. Their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design. Elmgreen & Dragset liv ...

George Saunders George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', '' Harper's'', ''McSweeney's'', and '' GQ''. He also contributed a w ...

Michael Hardt Michael Hardt (born 1960) is an American political philosopher and literary theorist. Hardt is best known for his book ''Empire'', which was co-written with Antonio Negri. Hardt and Negri suggest that several forces which they see as dominat ...

Tom McCarthy Thomas McCarthy (also Tom and Tommy) may refer to: Academia *Thomas A. McCarthy (born 1940), American professor of philosophy *Thomas J. McCarthy (born 1956), American professor of polymer chemistry at the University of Massachusetts *J. Thomas Mc ...

Paula Rego Paula or PAULA may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Paula, in video game ''EarthBound'' * Paula, in ''The Larry Sanders Show'' * Paula Campbell (''EastEnders''), in 2003 Film and television * ''Paula'' (1915 film), a si ...

Hari Kunzru Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist. He is the author of the novels '' The Impressionist'', '' Transmission'', ''My Revolutions'', ''Gods Without Men'', ''White Tears''David Robinson"Interview: Hari Kunzru, a ...

André Schiffrin André Schiffrin (June 14, 1935 – December 1, 2013)Robert D. McFadde ''New York Times'', December 1, 2013 was a French-American author, publisher and socialist. Life Schiffrin was born in Paris, the son of Jacques Schiffrin, a Russian Jew wh ...

Will Self William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English author, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. Sel ...

Marina Warner Dame Marina Sarah Warner, (born 9 November 1946) is an English historian, mythographer, art critic, novelist and short story writer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has written for many publicatio ...

, Chris Kraus,

Sophie Calle Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement known as Oulipo. ...

Deborah Levy Deborah Levy (born 6 August 1959) is a British novelist, playwright and poet. She initially concentrated on writing for the theatre – her plays were staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company – before focusing on prose fiction. Her early nov ...

Rachel Cusk Rachel Cusk (born 8 February 1967) is a British novelist and writer. Childhood and education Cusk was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon to British people, British parents in 1967, the second of four children with an older sister and t ...

, and Richard Wentworth. The website has also carried interviews with

David Graeber David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books '' Debt: The First 5,000 Years'' (2011) and ''Bullshit Jobs ...

Jonathan Safran Foer Jonathan Safran Foer (; born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is known for his novels ''Everything Is Illuminated'' (2002), '' Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'' (2005), '' Here I Am'' (2016), and for his non-fiction works ''Eatin ...

DBC Pierre Peter Warren Finlay (born in 1961), also known as DBC Pierre, is an Australian author who wrote the novel '' Vernon God Little''. Pierre was born in South Australia, and largely raised in Mexico. He has resided in the Republic of Ireland and ...

Cornelia Parker Cornelia Ann Parker (born 14 July 1956) is an English visual artist, best known for her sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physica ...

Wayne Koestenbaum Wayne Koestenbaum (born 1958) is an American artist, poet, and cultural critic. He received a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University and is a 1994 Whiting Award recipie ...

, and others.

Contributors

Notable contributors have included

Ned Beauman Ned Beauman (born 1985) is a British novelist, journalist and screenwriter. The author of five novels, he was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists by ''Granta'' magazine in 2013. Biography Born in London, Beauman is the son of ...

, Joshua Cohen,

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

, Chris Kraus,

Lee Rourke Lee Rourke (born 1972) is an English writer and literary critic. His books include the short story collection ''Everyday'', the novels ''The Canal'' (winner of '' The Guardian’s'' Not The Booker Prize in 2010), ''Vulgar Things'', and ''Glitch ...

Anne Carson Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the Unit ...

Sally Rooney Sally Rooney (born 20 February 1991) is an Irish author and screenwriter. She has published three novels: ''Conversations with Friends'' (2017), ''Normal People'' (2018), and ''Beautiful World, Where Are You'' (2021). ''Normal People'' was adapt ...

, Hatty Nestor,

Leslie Jamison Leslie Sierra Jamison (born June 21, 1983) is an American novelist and essayist. She is the author of the 2010 novel ''The Gin Closet'' and the 2014 essay collection ''The Empathy Exams.'' Jamison also directs the non-fiction concentration in wri ...

China Miéville China Tom Miéville ( ; born 6 September 1972) is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. He often describes his work as ''weird fiction'' and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called '' New Weird''. Mi ...

Alice Oswald Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald (née Keen; born 31 August 1966) is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire. Her work won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002 and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017. In September 2017, she was named as BBC Radio 4's second Poet ...

Dorothea Lasky Dorothea Lasky is an American poet. She has published four full-length collections of poetry through Wave Books and one through Liveright/W.W. Norton, along with releasing chapbooks and appearing in various literary journals. She is currently ...

Adam Thirlwell Adam Thirlwell (born 22 August 1978) is a British novelist. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He has twice been named as one of ''Granta''s Best of Young British Novelists. In 2015 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the Am ...

, and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

The White Review Prizes

In 2013, The White Review Short Story Prize was launched to find and foster new British and Irish writing talent. It is an annual short story competition for emerging writers who "explore and expand the possibilities of the short story form ... the prize was founded to reward ambitious, imaginative and innovative approaches to creative writing." The prize is supported by

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and awards £2500 to the best piece of short fiction by a writer resident in the UK and Ireland who has yet to secure a publishing deal. The winner will also be published in a print issue of ''The White Review''. Many winners and shortlisted writers have since published novels and become acclaimed. The White Review Poet's Prize was introduced in 2017, and was launched to recognise and celebrate English-language poets who are at the crucial stage of creating their debut pamphlet or collection, and to encourage poetry that explores and expands the possibilities of the page-poetry form.

2013

The 2013 inaugural prize was awarded on 25 April 2013. The judges were

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editorial director Alex Bowler and literary agent Karolina Sutton. *Winner:

Claire-Louise Bennett Claire-Louise Bennett is a British writer, living in Galway in Ireland. She has written ''Pond'' (2015), which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize; and ''Checkout 19'' (2021), which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. Biography Benne ...

for "The Lady of the House" *Shortlist: Gareth Dickson, Jonathan Gibbs, Olivia Heal, Scott Morris, Luke Neima, Stacy Patton, J. D. A. Winslow

2014

The 2014 prize was awarded on 30 April 2014. The judges were

Kevin Barry Kevin Gerard Barry (20 January 1902 – 1 November 1920) was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) soldier who was executed by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence. He was sentenced to death for his part in an attack upon a Bri ...

, Max Porter and literary agent

Anna Webber Anna Webber (born August 28, 1986) is an American photographer best known for her musician portrait photography, in addition to being an official ambassador for The Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSSA) Her work has appeared in ' ...

. *Winner: Ruby Cowling for "Biophile" *Shortlist: Paul Currion,

Steven J Fowler Steven J. Fowler or SJ Fowler (born 1983) is a contemporary English poet, writer and avant-garde artist, and the founder of European Poetry Festival. Work Fowler has produced a diverse body of work across poetry, performance, experimental theatr ...

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, Joseph Mackertich, Luke Neima, Brenda Parker, Eley Williams

2015

The 2015 prize was awarded on 30 April 2015. The judges were

, literary agent Lucy Luck and

Serpent's Tail Serpent's Tail is London-based independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Pete Ayrton. It specialises in publishing work in translation, particularly European crime fiction. In January 2007, it was bought by a British publisher Profile Books ...

publisher Hannah Westland. *Winner: Owen Booth for "I Told You I'd Buy You Anything You Wanted So You Asked For A Submarine Fleet" *Shortlist:

Paul McQuade Paul McQuade (born 17 May 1987) is a Scottish former footballer who plays as a striker. Career Raith Rovers McQuade started his professional career at Raith Rovers but never made a reserve team appearance. He was released at the end of the ...

, Luke Melia, Nick Mulgrew, Chris Newlove Horton,

Joanna Quinn Joanna Lisa Quinn is an English independent film director and animator. Early life Quinn was born in Birmingham, England and grew up in North London. She went to school at Highgate Wood Secondary School and completed a foundation course in art ...

, Eley Williams

2016

The 2016 prize was awarded on 21 April 2016. The judges were

Eimear McBride Eimear McBride (born 16 April 1976) is an Irish novelist, whose debut novel, ''A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing'', won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize in 2013 and the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Published works McBride wrote ''A Girl Is ...

, literary agent Imogen Pelham and

Hamish Hamilton Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (''Hamish'' is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas eaning James ''James'' the English form – which was ...

publisher Simon Prosser. *Winner: Sophie Mackintosh for "Grace" *Shortlist: Victoria Manifold, Chris Newlove Horton, Uschi Gatward, Karina Lickorish Quinn, Leon Craig, Naomi Frisby,

2017

The 2017 Short Story Prize was awarded to both a UK and Ireland winner, as well as a US and Canada winner, with two respective shortlists and judging panels. The UK and Ireland judges were

Jon Day Sir Jonathan Stephen Day (born 23 April 1954) is a retired British Civil Servant lately serving as the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of the Joint Intelligence Organisation at the Cabinet Office. Day initially trained ...

Joe Dunthorne Joe Dunthorne (born 1982) is a Welsh novelist, poet and journalist. He made his name with his novel ''Submarine'' (2008), made into a film in 2010. His second novel, ''Wild Abandon'' (2011), won the RSL Encore Award. A selection of his poems w ...

and

Faber and Faber Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...

publisher Mitzi Angel. The US and Canada judges were

, literary agent Anna Stein and New Directions publisher Barbara Epler. Both winners were awarded in May 2017. The White Review Poet's Prize was also introduced in 2017, and was launched to recognise and celebrate English-language poets who are at the crucial stage of creating their debut pamphlet or collection, and to encourage poetry that explores and expands the possibilities of the page-poetry form. The 2017 judges were

Kayo Chingonyi Kayo Chingonyi FRSL (born 1987) is a Zambian-British poet and editor who is the author of two poetry collections, ''Kumukanda'' and ''A Blood Condition.'' He has also published two pamphlets, ''Some Bright Elegance'' (Salt, 2012) and ''The Colour ...

Vahni Capildeo Vahni Anthony Ezekiel Capildeo (born Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo; born 1973) is a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer, and a member of the extended Capildeo family that has produced notable Trinidadian politicians and writers (including V. S. ...

and

Penguin Books Penguin Books is a British publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.Donald Futers. The poetry winner was awarded on 7 December 2017. *Winner (UK and Ireland): Nicole Flattery for "Tracks" *Shortlist (UK and Ireland): Liam Cagney, Thomas Chadwick, Christopher Burkham,

, Ed Lately, Lauren van Schaik, Anna Glendenning *Winner (US & Canada): Kristen Gleason for "The Refugee" *Shortlist (US & Canada): Alexander Slotnick, Rav Grewal-Kök, Giada Scodellaro, Annie Julia Wyman, Ethan Davison, Devyn Defoe, Ari Braverman *Winner (Poetry):

Lucy Mercer Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd ( Lucy Page Mercer; April 26, 1891 – July 31, 1948) was an American woman who was best known for her affair with US president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Background Lucy Page Mercer was born on April 26, 1891, in Washington, ...

*Shortlist (Poetry): Genevieve Carver, Helen Charman, Seraphima Kennedy, Harriet Moore, Jake Orbison, Jake Reynolds, Lavinia Singer

2018

The 2018 Short Story Prize was awarded on 17 May 2018. The judges were Chloe Aridjis,

Sam Byers Sam Byers (born 1979) is a British novelist. He was born in Bury St Edmunds and now lives in Norwich, where he studied at the University of East Anglia (MA Creative Writing, 2004; PhD, 2014). Byers' debut novel ''Idiopathy'', a satire based on ...

Daunt books Daunt Books is a chain of bookshops in England, founded in 1990 by James Daunt. It originally specialised in travel books. In 2010, it began publishing. James Daunt later became CEO of Waterstones and the US bookstore chain Barnes & Noble. Bo ...

publisher Želkja Marošević,

Granta ''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and ma ...

editor Anne Meadows and literary agent Sophie Scard. The 2018 Poetry judges were

Anne Boyer Anne Boyer (born 1973) is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of ''The Romance of Happy Workers'' (2008), ''The 2000s'' (2009), ''My Common Heart'' (2011), '' Garments Against Women'' (2015), and ''The Handbook of Disappointed Fate'' ( ...

and

Lavinia Greenlaw Lavinia Elaine Greenlaw (born 30 July 1962) is an English poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. She won the Prix du Premier Roman with her first novel and her poetry has been shortlisted for awards that include the T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward Pri ...

. The poetry winner was awarded on 6 December 2018. *Winner (Short Story): Julia Armfield for "The Great Awake" *Shortlist (Short Story): Matthew Beaumont,

Susannah Dickey Susannah Dickey is a novelist and poet from Derry in Northern Ireland. Dickey received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2020. Her first novel, ''Tennis Lessons'', was published by Doubleday UK in 2020. Her second novel, ''Commo ...

, Jenny Karlsson, Victoria Manifold, Tabitha Siklos, Lyndsey Smith,

Rebecca Watson Rebecca Watson is an American blogger and podcast host. She is the founder of the blog ''Skepchick'' and former co-host of ''The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe'' podcast. She also previously co-hosted the ''Little Atoms'' podcast. Career Wat ...

*Winner (Poetry): Charlotte Geater *Shortlist (Poetry): Tolu Agbelusi, Hal Coase, Hugh Foley, Eloise Hendy, Caitlin Newby, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo, Jay G Ying

2019

The 2019 Short Story Prize was awarded on 25 April 2019. The judges were

Chris Power Chris Power is a British writer and literary critic for ''The Guardian''. He was born in 1975 and grew up in Farnborough, Hampshire. He studied English and American literature at Swansea University, graduating in 1998. He has worked as an advert ...

, literary agent Sophie Scard, and

publishing director Michal Shavit. The 2019 poetry judges were

Rachel Allen Rachel Allen (née O'Neill) is an Irish celebrity chef, known for her work on television and as a writer. She has often appeared on Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). Career as chef and writer Allen went to the Ballymaloe Cookery School at th ...

and

Ariana Reines Ariana Reines is an American poet, playwright, performance artist, and translator. Her books of poetry include ''The Cow'' (2006), which won the Alberta Prize from Fence Books; ''Coeur de Lion'' (2007); ''Mercury'' (2011); and ''Thursday'' (2012) ...

. The poetry winner was awarded on 5 December 2019. *Winner (Short Story): Vanessa Onwuemezi for "At the Heart of Things" *Shortlist (Short Story): Salma Ahmad, Rachel Bower, Catherine Mitchell, Saba Sams, Sarah Trounce, Stephen Walsh *Winner (Poetry): Kaleem Hawa *Shortlist (Poetry): Beth Dynowski,

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, Flora de Falbe, Dane Holt, Julie Irigaray, Laura O'Callaghan-White, Yvette Siegert, Dahmicca Wright

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