Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics is an online magazine that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry from around the world, along with nonfiction such 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 Inc. has been a not-for-profit corporation since 2009.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 Joel Whitney, Michael Archer, Josh Jones, and Elizabeth Onusko. National Book Foundation Director Lisa Lucas was the publisher of Guernica from June 2014 until February 2016. Phineas Lambert is the current publisher, and Ed Winstead is the current Editor-in-Chief. Senior editors Erica Wright and Meakin Armstrong have served the longest, for over 10 years.
Awards and events
In 2008, Okey Ndibe's "My Biafran Eyes" won a Best of the Web prize, Dzanc Books. In 2008, Rebecca Morgan Frank's "Rescue" was chosen for the Best New Poets award. In 2009, Esquire magazine cited Guernica for its fiction and called it a "great online literary magazine". In 2009, Matthew Derby's short story for Guernica, "January in December", won a Best of the Web prize. In 2009, E. C. Osondu was awarded the Caine Prize for African Writing for his Guernica short story, "Waiting." In 2010, Mark Dowie's "Food Among the Ruins" was chosen for the Best of the Net anthology. 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, Dzanc Books. In 2011, Bridget Potter's essay "Lucky Girl" was chosen for The Best American Essays, 2011, 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. In 2013, Guernica won Utne Magazine's Media Award for Best Social/Cultural Coverage. In 2016, Alexander Chee's essay "Girl" was chosen for The Best American Essays, 2016, edited by Jonathan Franzen. In 2017, won the PEN American CenterNora Magid Award for Editing. Aleš Šteger's poem "Earring" was selected for the Best of the Net Anthology. Guernica is a five-time PEN World Voices participant in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2013. With PEN American Center, Guernica fiction editors produce a flash fiction series that is run on both its own site and on PEN's. It has co-sponsored events with the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Amnesty International and various publishing companies.
