We are delighted to announce the launch of The White Review No. 15 at De Rien, 20 Lower Marsh, London SE1 7RJ. There will be drinks. To confirm your attendance, please RSVP to editors@thewhitereview.org.
The White Review No. 15 features new literature in translation – from the extraordinary French novelist Maylis de Kerangal, the great Hungarian László Krasznahorkai and the celebrated Korean poet Ko Un – and some of the most exciting voices to have emerged from Britain and Ireland over recent years in Caleb Klaces, Declan Ryan and Luke Brown.
Our dedication to hybrid, radical forms is apparent in the publication of Anne Carson’s ‘lyric lecture with chorus’ – a work that could as easily be produced on stage or film as within these pages – and Brian Dillon’s ekphrastic meditation on charisma, faith, and loss.
The combination of art and literature has always been a guiding principle of this project, and we are delighted to present works by installation artist Alicja Kwade, a photographic series from Germany’s Annette Kelm, and new work by Swiss artists Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs. Cover art is by Navine G. Khan-Dossos (see above).
Our catholic (a generous interpretation) tastes are reflected in the publication of a long-form essay on a camp in which one comes to terms with one’s own death, by Gabriela Wiener, and another on translation and human subjectivity, by Kate Briggs.
Beside this, we are excited to publish interviews with two longstanding heroes of the editors: Zadie Smith, arguably the most important British novelist and critic of her generation, and Rosalind E. Krauss, whose extraordinary body of work over the past forty years dispels the pernicious myth that art criticism must be inscrutable, obscurantist, or anything other than an intellectually and aesthetically exciting experience.
You can pre-order the issue here, copies will be sent out on 3 December 2015.
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The White Review Short Story Prize 2016
The White Review Short Story Prize 2016 will open for submissions on 1 December 2016. The judges this year are Eimear McBride (author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing), Simon Prosser (publishing director at Hamish Hamilton) and Imogen Pelham (literary agent at Marjacq Scripts).
The White Review Short Story Prize is an annual short story competition for emerging writers. Made possible by the generous support of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation in 2013, the prize awards £2,500 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 judges will be looking for short stories that explore and expand the possibilities of the form. We encourage submissions from all literary genres, and there are no restrictions on theme or subject matter. We would only emphasise that the prize was founded to reward ambitious, imaginative and innovative approaches to creative writing.
Please visit the prize page for more information.
