Guernica Magazine

Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics

Editors	Michael Archer, Meakin Armstrong, Katie Dykstra, Erica Wright
Categories	Literary, art and political
Frequency	Biweekly (content refreshes 1st and 15th of every month)
First issue	2004
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	http://www.guernicamag.com/

Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics is a biweekly online site that publishes art and photography, fiction, and poetry, from around the world, along with nonfiction such as letters from abroad, investigative pieces and opinion pieces on international affairs and U.S. domestic policy. It also publishes interviews and profiles of artists, writers, musicians and political figures.

Guernica 's stated mission is to publish works that explore "the crossroads between art and politics". According to Publishers Weekly, Guernica was founded in 2004 by former MFA students Joel Whitney and Michael Archer and Fordham University graduate students Josh Jones and Elizabeth Onusko. Whitney and Archer met during a teaching program in Costa Rica. Jones and Onusko met in writing classes at Fordham University and served as co-managing editors of Guernica until 2006.

Guernica Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation organized under the laws of the state of Delaware, incorporated on March 20, 2009.

Awards and events

In 2011, Bridget Potter's essay "Lucky Girl" was chosen for The Best American Essays, 2011, guest-edited by Edwidge Danticat. Mark Dowie's "Food Among the Ruins" was chosen for the Best of the Net anthology. Jack Shenker's "Dam Dilemma" was part of a portfolio of his work longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in the UK. In 2010, Oliver de la Paz's poem "Requiem for the Orchard", F. Daniel Rzicnek's poem "Geomancy" and Elizabeth Crane's short story "The Genius Meetings" won Best of the Web prizes (Dzanc Books). In 2009, E. C. Osondu was awarded the Caine Prize for African Writing for his Guernica short story, "Waiting". Esquire magazine cited Guernica for its fiction and called it a "great online literary magazine". Matthew Derby's short story "January in December" won a Best of the Web prize (Dzanc Books). Aleš Šteger's poem "Earring" (tr. Brian Henry) was selected for the Best of the Net Anthology (Sundress Publications). In 2008, Okey Ndibe's "My Biafran Eyes" won a Best of the Web prize (Dzanc Books). Rebecca Morgan Frank's "Rescue" was chosen for the Best New Poets award.

Guernica is a three-time PEN World Voices participant in 2008, 2009 and 2010. It has co-sponsored events with the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Amnesty International and various publishing companies.

Contributors and editors

Contributors include Lorraine Adams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jesse Ball, A. Igoni Barrett, Mark Binelli, Amit Chaudhuri, Susan Choi, Noam Chomsky, Billy Collins, Elizabeth Crane, Susan Daitch, Mark Dowie, Stephen Elliott, Rivka Galchen, James Galvin, Amitav Ghosh, Mahvish Khan, Eric Kraft, Douglas Light, Sarah Lindsay, Okey Ndibe, Meghan O'Rourke, Zachary Mason, Ernesto Mestre-Reed, Matthew Rohrer, Deb Olin Unferth, Sergio Ramírez, Amartya Sen, Aurelie Sheehan, Jonathan Steele, Laren Stover, Terese Svoboda, Frederic Tuten and Joe Wenderoth.

Recent guest fiction and poetry editors have included: Alexander Chee, Pia Ehrhardt, Francisco Goldman, Randa Jarrar, Sam Lipsyte, Ben Marcus, Claire Messud, George Saunders, Tracy K. Smith, and Frederic Tuten.

Interview subjects have included: Congressman John Conyers, Congresswomen Marcy Kaptur and Carolyn B. Maloney, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias, Justice Department legal counsel John Yoo, former member of Dutch Parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former Iraqi cabinet member Ali Allawi, artist Chuck Close, singers Lila Downs and David Byrne, and authors Andrew Bacevich, Don DeLillo, Howard Zinn, Samantha Power, Joseph Spece, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Nicholas D. Kristof, Joan Didion, playwright Tony Kushner, and actor Mia Farrow.

The magazine's advisory board includes: Richard Howard, Norman Solomon, Frederic Tuten

Senior editors include: Meakin Armstrong (senior editor, fiction), Katherine Dykstra (senior editor, non-fiction), Erica Wright (senior editor, poetry), Rachel Riederer (editor, Guernica Daily), Tana Wojczuk (editor, non-fiction), Noah Rabinowitz (editor, art) and Kaye Cain-Nielsen (managing editor).

See also

• List of literary magazines

External links

• Guernica magazine current issue
• Guernica on Facebook
• Esquire magazine, "Great Online Literary Magazines"
• Publishers Weekly, "Guernica: Lit Mag Beats the Odds"
• The Guardian, "EC Osondu takes £10,000 'African Booker'"
• Susie Linfield discusses her Guernica article "Living with the Enemy" on Australian ABC's Late Night Live
• Editor-at-Large Mark Dowie discusses his Guernica article "Food Among the Ruins" on Detroit Public Radio
• Founding Editor Joel Whitney discusses the magazine's coverage of the November presidential election on Federal News Radio
• New York magazine, "Bernard-Henri Lévy, Mia Farrow, and Some New Age Music Open the PEN World Voices Fest" (A Guernica PEN World Voices event)
• New York Times, "A Writer’s Violent End, and His Activist Legacy" (A Guernica PEN World Voices event)