On Thursday at Burley Fisher Books in East London, The London Magazine will be collaborating on an evening of poetry and spoken word with the poetry publishers New River Press.
Archive | Poetry | Peter Bland
Peter Bland, the New Zealand writer and actor, has written extensively over his long career, and has been lauded with…
Archive | Why I Write — Joan Didion
First published in the June/July 1977 of The London Magazine (Vol. 17, No. 2) Of course I stole the title…
Fiction | Just for Five Minutes by Alla Melenteva
It was an early May day. The war was considered over, though it had not yet been officially declared. A…
Interview | Ben Aleshire
Ben Aleshire makes his living as a travelling poet, writing poems on his typewriter for whatever his readers can spare…
Fiction | About You by Marjorie Main
Early on a Saturday morning in October I met Vivian at Liverpool Street Station. Stevie had a painting in an…
Fiction | Beloved by Roger Raynal
That morning, when Ryoji woke up, fired from sleep by a strident, but usual sound, he refrained from opening…
Fiction | The Sinners’ Corner by Mark Sadler
I returned to work on a dismal Tuesday morning, emerging from the main entrance of London, Fenchurch Street, railway station…
Interview | Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry is a broadcaster, actor and writer who has just written Mythos, an elegant and entertaining retelling of the…
Short Story Competition 2017
UPDATE: EXTENDED CLOSING DATE The competition will now be open for entries until November 15th. Autumn is just around the…
An Interview with Frieda Hughes
We caught up with Frieda Hughes, one of this year’s Poetry Prize 2017 judges. Although this prize has now closed,…
An interview with Patricia McCarthy
We spoke to Patricia McCarthy, one of the judges for our Poetry Prize 2017, who gave a bit of advice on…
Essay Competition 2017
This competition is now closed. As the oldest literary and arts review in the UK, The London Magazine has a long…
Faber Reading: An Evening with Emily Berry, Emma Jones, Zaffar Kunial, Daljit Nagra, Richard Scott
The Crypt on the Green in Clerkenwell Close was beautifully lit with fairy lights, and the low chatter of poetry…
Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends at the National Portrait Gallery
According to a new exhibition of Howard Hodgkin’s work at the National Portrait Gallery, one of the artist’s principal concerns…
An interview with Paul Benney
If you walk along one of the leafy roads from Hackney Downs and turn down a little side street, you…
An interview with Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson MBE is a poet and writer, published in thirty-seven languages, who has received international prizes in the US,…
Acrostic by Sudeep Sen
(R.I.P. Derek Walcott: January 23, 1930 – March 17, 2017) Deep seas of yesteryears wash new froth on your home…
Poetry Prize 2017
As of midnight tonight (30th June 2017) this competition will be closed. The London Magazine has been home to some…
Ghost Story by J.G. Warry
For close on forty years I have pursued The ghost of my personality Down endless corridors of a castle Unsuccessfully.…
Short Story Competition 2016 | An interview with Erica Wagner
With just over a month until our Short Story Competition 2016 closes, we spoke to one of the judges, Erica Wagner, and…
Essay | John Scott’s The London Magazine by Matthew Scott
The Greek author Lucian tells of a lusty, young aristocrat who fell for a statue of Aphrodite and, willing it to be real, attempted to defile it. He had only the experience of other boys to go on and fell short when it came to the anatomy of women; congress was a hopeless failure and he hurled himself to his death […]
The Lake by Ted Hughes
Better disguised than the leaf-insect, A sort of subtler armadillo, The lake turns with me as I walk. Snuffles at…
Short Story Competition 2016
This competition is now closed. Thanks to all who entered. The longlist, shortlist and winners will be announced over the next…
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