New stretch target
Reaching our stretch target will give us more security going us into the next year, allowing us to be more ambitious in continuing to provide a platform for new, vital and exciting writing and art.
The White Review has championed new art and writing since 2011. Support our publishing into 2023 and beyond!
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Reaching our stretch target will give us more security going us into the next year, allowing us to be more ambitious in continuing to provide a platform for new, vital and exciting writing and art.
ABOUT THE WHITE REVIEW
For over a decade, our magazine has provided a platform for ambitious new art and writing, supported international and UK-based writers and artists at a crucial stage in their development, championed literature in translation, and published a vital programme of cultural reviews read by an international audience.
In 2022 alone, we've worked with a range of brilliant cultural figures, including Ocean Vuong, Bani Abidi, Siri Hustvedt, Lubaina Himid, Maria Stepanova and Eugene Ostashevsky, Valzyhna Mort, Julia Armfield, Vladimir Sorokin translated by Max Lawton, Kate Zambreno, Susanna Moore, and Polly Barton.
‘The White Review is a gift for writers, and for literature.’ – Claire-Louise Bennett
These are just a few examples of the work The White Review does. Over the years we have published a diverse mixture of emerging and established artists and writers side by side. Remember Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk’s short fiction Wisteria, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones? Brian Dillon’s essay on charisma? Fernanda Melchor’s exploration of contemporary Mexico, translated by Sophie Hughes? Lauren Elkin’s interview with Annie Ernaux? Jennifer Hodgson and Patricia Waugh’s ‘On the Exaggerated Reports of a Decline in British Fiction’? Virginie Despentes’s blistering take-down of the Académie des César, translated by Frank Wynne? Johanna Hedva’s hagiography of Nine Inch Nails? Meena Kandasamy’s extraordinary essay on writing, trauma and the fate of women Tamil Tigers? Juliet Jacques's reckoning with the films of Adam Curtis? Sally Rooney's short story ‘At the Clinic‘? Deborah Levy’s ‘Weeping Machines‘, the starting point for her ‘living autobiography‘ series? Poetry by Holly Pester, Jen Calleja, Sarah Howe, A K Blakemore and John Ashbery? Our many beautiful covers, designed by artists including Allison Katz, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Anthea Hamilton?
‘A cultural juggernaut. Seismic in its impact on both aspiring and established voices. An essential space for great writing and thinking.’ – Irenosen Okojie MBE
Our activities extend beyond the page. Our Short Story Prize and Poet's Prize have helped amplify some of the most exciting new voices in fiction and poetry, including Claire-Louise Bennett, Julia Armfield, Sophie Mackintosh, Lucy Mercer and Vanessa Onwuemezi, along with our most recent winners, Fahad Al-Amoudi and Jiaqi Kang. We host online and in-person events, we‘ve provided editorial mentorships in partnership with Ledbury Poetry Critics, and we help run the annual, international Hope Street Writer in Residence programme in collaboration with the University of Liverpool.
‘Nothing less than a cultural revolution.’ – Deborah Levy
WHY WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT
Since its inception, The White Review has depended upon the support of its readers. Now, more than ever, we need your help to continue our work.
The current political and economic climate poses an existential threat to small charities, independent magazines and publishers like us. With the UK government overseeing brutal cuts to the arts, and competition for public funding more intense than ever, many arts organisations still reeling from the effects of COVID-19 and Brexit are facing an uncertain future.
Nothing we do – the magazine, the website, our prizes, events and residency – is possible without your support.
If you can, please consider donating to The White Review. Your help can secure the future of the magazine, enabling us to become even more ambitious. The White Review is a registered charity (Charity Number: 1148690). All donations are tax deductible.
Our funding goal of £10,000 will help to ensure we continue to provide a platform for new art and writing in 2023.
‘As a writer, The White Review has provided an essential platform for me to explore new works in considerable depth. As a reader, it has brought plenty of new authors and artists to my attention for more than a decade, and it would be great if they could continue to do so for years to come.’ – Juliet Jacques
WHO WE ARE
The White Review was launched by Ben Eastham and Jacques Testard in February 2011, to provide ‘a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre’, and takes its name from LA REVUE BLANCHE, a Parisian magazine which ran from 1889 to 1903.
The White Review is run by a small, dedicated part-time team and supported by the board and the contributing editors.
Samir Chadha is Assistant Editor at The White Review, and is based in London. He’s currently studying for an MA at Birkbeck, and also likes to cook.
Rosanna McLaughlin is Co-Editor of The White Review, and lives in St-Leonards-on-Sea. She is the author of two books: the novel Sinkhole: Three Crimes, published by Montez Press, and Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity, a collection of satirical essays and short-fiction published by Carcanet Press. When she isn’t writing or editing, she can be found on the beach attempting to befriend other people’s dogs.
Izabella Scott is Co-Editor of The White Review. She lives in London, where she is currently working on a PhD about a sex offence trial. She loves to swim.
Skye Arundhati Thomas is Co-editor of The White Review. She writes about Indian politics and visual culture, and is the author of 'Remember the Details' out now with Floating Opera Press. She lives in Goa with her dog Luna.
‘The White Review has always been a rich resource and platform for people whose written work is central to their practice and yet never quite finds itself perfectly at home: not in a book, on the wall of a gallery, or in a film script. Please support The White Review’s future to build a bigger house.‘ – Lawrence Abu Hamdan
REWARDS
As a thank you for your support, we are offering a set of rewards, from issues and book bundles to manuscript consultations. We're grateful for your contribution. We couldn't do this without you!
PRAISE
‘The White Review has boldly carved out a space for itself in the contemporary literary landscape, such that the landscape has begun to shape itself around it.’ – Vanessa Onwuemezi
‘The White Review consistently does the work we need: bringing the best in global arts and literary culture to its readers, discovering new talent and taking risks other magazines can't bring themselves to take. It’s an incredibly important space for writers, thinkers, readers and artists and it’s one I am proud to celebrate.‘ – Preti Taneja
‘The White Review continues to be a repository for some of the most compelling ideas of our time. In these turbulent times, it's more important than ever that we sustain this crucial space for critical engagement.‘ – Alok Vaid-Menon
‘What it brings to the table is the political authenticity and fervour of a little magazine – intense long-form pieces, voices from the margins, critical conversations.’ — Meena Kandasamy
‘The White Review has long been one of my favourite publications, encouraging work which pushes boundaries and pulses with life.’ — Caleb Azumah Nelson
‘The White Review gives a platform to emerging artists alongside established ones, publishing work that isn’t afraid to take risks or challenge.’ — Sophie Mackintosh
‘Packed with varied, unexpected material in all kinds of forms, The White Review brings a message from the future: it rises to meet readers’ and writers’ continuing needs to experience art and literature in a sensuous, delectable form; and it gives me the feeling that I have my finger on the pulse.’ — Marina Warner
‘One of the best magazines in Europe.’ — Hans Ulrich Obrist
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