Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics is an award-winning digital magazine known for publishing fiction, poetry, essays, reportage, art, and interviews that focus primarily on global perspectives and the intersection between art and politics.[2] The magazine is particularly committed to world literature, platforming marginalized voices and translating work from all continents into English, and it has been a place of first publication for many notable writers.[3]
Guernica was founded in 2004 by Joel Whitney, Michael Archer, Josh Jones, and Elizabeth Onusko.[4] Guernica Inc. has been a not-for-profit corporation since 2009.[5][6]National Book Foundation Director Lisa Lucas was the publisher of Guernica from 2014 until 2016.[7][8] Madhuri Sastry and Jina Moore were co-publishers from 2016 until 2024.[9]
Awards and events
In 2008, Okey Ndibe's "My Biafran Eyes" won a Best of the Web prize from Dzanc Books.[10] In 2008, Rebecca Morgan Frank's "Rescue" was chosen for the Best New Poets award.[11]
In 2009, Matthew Derby's short story for Guernica, "January in December", won a Best of the Web prize from Dzanc Books.
In 2010, Mark Dowie's "Food Among the Ruins" was chosen for the Best of the Net anthology.[14] 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 from Dzanc Books.[15]
In 2011, Bridget Potter's essay "Lucky Girl" was chosen for The Best American Essays, 2011,[16] guest-edited by Edwidge Danticat. In 2011, Jack Shenker's "Dam Dilemma" was part of a portfolio of his work longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in the UK.[17]
In 2013, Guernica won Utne magazine's Media Award for Best Social/Cultural Coverage.[18]
In 2023, Guernica won a Whiting Award. In their citation, the judges noted: “Perennially curious, eager to reckon with the world head-on, Guernica draws readers into uncharted conversations and traces the complex ligaments connecting culture, politics, art, and ecology. Over twenty years, Guernica has built an impressive record as a place of first publication for important writers and thinkers.”[21]
Previous longtime senior editors include Meakin Armstrong (senior editor, fiction 2006-2022) and Erica Wright (senior editor, poetry 2007-2022).[23] The current masthead is composed of nonfiction editors Shze-Hui Tjoa and Molara Wood, fiction editor William Pei Shih, poetry editor Nathalie Handal, managing editor Aybike Ahmedi, and editor-in-chief Youmna Melhem Chamieh.[24]
In March of 2024, a disagreement over the publication of Israeli writer and translator Joanna Chen’s essay “From the Edges of a Broken World”[25] led to the resignation of some Guernica editors, as well as of co-publishers Madhuri Sastry and Jina Moore.[26][27] At the author’s invitation, the magazine retracted the piece, with co-founder Michael Archer writing: “the essay was ultimately removed from Guernica’s pages for the same reason I assumed the author invited its retraction—it was further wounding a historically silenced community already under siege.”[28] Chen’s essay was re-published in the Washington Monthly on March 18th.[29]
↑ Chen, Joanna (March 5, 2024). "From the Edges of a Broken World". Guernica. Archived from the original on March 5, 2024. Retrieved March 18, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
↑ Archer, Michael (April 12, 2024). "Moving Forward". Guernica. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
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