Guernica Magazine

"Guernica: a Magazine of Art and Politics" is a magazine that publishes photography, poetry, and fiction from around the world, along with nonfiction, including letters from abroad, investigative pieces, interviews, profiles of artists/writers/musicians or political figures, opinion pieces on international affairs and U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy

"Guernica" 's stated mission is to publish works that explore "the crossroads between art and politics." According to "Publishers Weekly", "Guernica" was founded by former M.F.A. students Joel Whitney and Michael Archer, who originally planned an online-only magazine. The editors met during a teaching program in Costa Rica, and have a mutual passion for serious journalism, international literature, and poetry. According to the article, the magazine is read in over 100 countries and that, overall, tens of thousands view the site every month. In 2008, the nonprofit magazine will also appear in print.

"Guernica" was a 2008 participant in PEN World Voices and has also co-sponsored events with The Asian American Writers' Workshop and Amnesty International. In July 2008, Okey Ndibe's "My Biafran Eyes" won an inaugural Best of the Web prize by Dzanc Books. Rebecca Morgan Frank's "Rescue" was recently chosen for the Best New Poets award in 2008.

Contributors and Editors

Contributors include Mark Dowie, Stephen Elliott, Jonathan Steele, Mahvish Khan, Okey Ndibe, Mark Binelli, Ernesto Mestre-Reed, Terese Svoboda, Susan Daitch, Susan Choi, Frederic Tuten, Aurelie Sheehan, and Rivka Galchen.

Recent Guest Fiction and Poetry Editors have included: George Saunders, Sam Lipsyte, Frederic Tuten, Tracy K. Smith, Francisco Goldman, Alexander Chee, and soon Ben Marcus.

Interview subjects have included: Congressman John Conyers, Congresswoman 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, authors Don DeLillo, Howard Zinn, Samantha Power, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Nicholas D. Kristof, Joan Didion, playwright Tony Kushner, and actor Mia Farrow.

The magazine's advisory board includes:
Robert Bly, Mark Doty, Eamon Grennan,
Richard Howard, James Lardner, Norman Solomon, Frederic Tuten

Other editors include:Meakin Armstrong (Editor, Fiction), Katherine Dykstra (Editor, Nonfiction), Nancy Rawlinson (Editor, Nonfiction), and Erica Wright (Editor, Poetry). Publishers are Tara Jepson and Jennifer Nix.

External links

* [http://www.guernicamag.com/ Guernica Magazine current issue]

* [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6492961.html Publishers Weekly, "Guernica: Lit Mag Beats the Odds"]

* [http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/04/bernardhenri_levy_mia_farrow_a.html New York magazine, "Bernard-Henri Lévy, Mia Farrow, and Some New Age Music Open the PEN World Voices Fest"]