The judges of The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 award first place to Renesha Dhanraj for her story, ‘Black Cake’, with second and third place awarded to Jordan Hayward and Jonathan Edwards, respectively.
Guide | Found in Translation: JLF London at the British Library 2025
Its twelfth UK edition, and its ninth at the British Library, JLF London returned this June with a weekend of expansive and cross-cultural conversation. With nearly 40 talks across literature, art, gardening, food, music and film, the programme was diverse and incisive.
News | Kevin Graham wins The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2025
‘All three winning poems speak of dislocation, of whim, of the untethered state of our being, while also being contained within the razor-sharp precision that language can offer.’
Prize winners announced for this year’s Poetry Prize.
News | Amaan Hyder wins The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2024
‘A deeply impressive range of stories, both in style and subject. Together they offer a picture of contemporary life in miniature.’
Benjamin Markovits on the winners of this year’s Short Story Prize.
Staff Picks | Halloween
In honour of the scariest day of the year, the team at The London Magazine share their favourite books, stories and poems in the generously-applied category of ‘spooky’ fiction, film and poetry.
Choices include works by M. R. James, Angela Carter and Niall Campbell.
News | Dominic Leonard wins The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2024
On the winning entries, the judges say: ‘We were all drawn to particular poems, and enjoyed discussing them a great deal but our winner, ‘The End’, was a unanimous one.’
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2025
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2025, judged by poets Fiona Benson, Jason Allen-Paisant and Mai Serhan, is now open. Entries close March 31st.
News | Niamh Mac Cabe wins The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2023
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2023 awards first place to Niamh Mac Cabe after her story FOUR NIGHT SEAS stunned…
Interview | Andreea Iulia Scridon talks to Monica Cure
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Essay | Harry Diamond’s Some London People, Fifty Years On by Adelaide Crosby
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Review | Adelaide Crosby on the Summer’s Best Ecological Art
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Fiction | Red Smoking Mirror by Nick Hunt [Extract]
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Fiction | Second Self by Chloë Ashby [Excerpt]
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Fiction | Sanderson’s Isle by James Clarke [Extract]
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Review | Joyce’s Ouroboros by Katie Tobin
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Poetry | The Warning by HLR
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Poetry | Two Poems by Beattie
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Interview | Nicola Dinan on her debut novel, Bellies
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Poetry | Three Poems by Jack Houston
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Fiction | The Four Corners of the Heart by Françoise Sagan
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Poetry | Two Poems by Joan García Viltró
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Fiction | Whites Can Dance Too by Kalaf Epalanga (trans. Daniel Hahn) [Extract]
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Poetry | Stained Glass by Aaron Fagan
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Interview | Dizz Tate on Florida and Girlhood
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