Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics is a biweekly on-line site that publishes art, poetry, fiction, and photography from around the world, along with such nonfiction 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 M.F.A. students Joel Whitney and Michael Archer. 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. Overall, tens of thousands view the site every month. According to their site, Guernica Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, incorporated on March 20, 2009.

[edit] Awards and Events

In 2009, E.C. Osondu was awarded the Caine Prize for African Writing for his Guernica short story. 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 Dzanc Books Best of the Web prize in 2009. In 2008, Okey Ndibe's "My Biafran Eyes" also won a Best of the Web prize. Rebecca Morgan Frank's "Rescue" was chosen for the Best New Poets award in 2008.

Guernica is a two-time PEN World Voices participant, in 2008 and 2009. It has co-sponsored events with The Asian American Writers' Workshop and Amnesty International.

[edit] Contributors and Editors

Contributors include Jesse Ball, A. Igoni Barrett, Mark Binelli, Susan Choi, Elizabeth Crane, Susan Daitch, Mark Dowie, Stephen Elliott, Rivka Galchen, Mahvish Khan, Eric Kraft, Douglas Light, Okey Ndibe, Ernesto Mestre-Reed, Deb Olin Unferth, Sergio Ramírez, Aurelie Sheehan, Jonathan Steele, Laren Stover, Terese Svoboda, Frederic Tuten, and Joe Wenderoth.

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

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, and 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), Erica Wright (Editor, Poetry), and Elizabeth Onusko (Managing Editor).

[edit] External links

• Guernica Magazine current issue

• Publishers Weekly, "Guernica: Lit Mag Beats the Odds"
• Esquire Magazine, "Great Online Literary Magazines"
• 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)
• EC Osondu takes £10,000 'African Booker']
• New York Times, "A Writer’s Violent End, and His Activist Legacy" (A Guernica PEN World Voices event)