Interview | Kate Mosse: Secrets of Storytelling
Kate Mosse is a multi-million, number one bestselling author who writes historical fiction combined with crime, adventure, mystery, conflict and romance. She takes the reader back to France's wars of religion and shares the...
Interview | Johnnie Cooper | throe on throe
A new exhibition at Saatchi Gallery sees a major survey by the acclaimed British artist Johnnie Cooper. Spanning two galleries, throe on throe comprises over 50 paintings and sculptures from the 1970’s – a time when Cooper...
Interview | Ilana Manolson | Chance Encounters
Inspired by the fluidity and evolution of nature, the acclaimed Canadian American artist Ilana Manolson expresses both a personal and abstract interpretation of the natural world in her paintings. Her first London exhibition, Chance...
Interview | Curator Amanda Bradley | Counterpoint – Stanley Spencer and his Contemporaries
Known for his eccentricity and convention-defying style, Stanley Spencer’s majestic work is beyond definition. The upcoming exhibition, Counterpoint – Stanley Spencer and his Contemporaries, layers the work of the renowned artist with his contemporaries,...
News | Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019 — The People’s Forest + Interview
The People's Forest — a literary strand to Waltham Forest's programme as the first ever London Borough of Culture this year — has recently been announced, which is to be curated by arts consultant...
Interview | Kevin Breathnach
I had intended my interview with Kevin Breathnach to go smoothly and at first it appeared to be doing so. We had arranged a time for a discussion over Skype, had both logged on...
Interview | Raymond Antrobus
Raymond Antrobus is a poet, educator, curator, editor and investigator of missing sounds, who is a founding member of Chill Pill as well as the Keats House Poets Forum, and whose work has appeared in publications...
Interview | Andrew Kötting at St Leonards International Film Festival
St Leonard's International Film Festival
Blackmarket VIP, George St, Hastings
19-21th January
HUBUBINTHEBAOBABS -Â 1987 33 minutes
HOIÂ POLLOIÂ 1990Â - 10 minutes
SMARTÂ ALEKÂ 1993Â - 18 minutes
JAUNTÂ 1995 - 5Â minutes
DONKEYHEADÂ 1998Â -Â 4minutes
KINGDOMPROTISTA 2000 – 6 minutes
MEÂ 1999Â -Â 5minutes
In the seaside town of Hastings, in an old, old street in the...
Interview | David Keenan | For The Good Times
After a career as a music writer spanning more than 20 years, David Keenan released his first novel This Is Memorial Device in 2017, a novel about a fictional music scene set in Airdrie,...
Interview | GeorgII Uvs | Full Circle: The Beauty of Inevitability
Driven by scientific pursuit and artistic imagination, the acclaimed Russian artist GeorgII Uvs pioneered a new approach to abstract art in which he developed a technique in painting with ultraviolet reactive pigments. Jemima Walter...
Interview: Adriaan van Heerden — Unreal City
Adriaan van Heerden is an artist and photographer whose work has been exhibited in London, Barcelona, Kyoto and Singapore, and who was nominated for the ArtGemini Prize last year. His latest project Unreal City...
Interview | Amy Sackville
Back in March at the London Book Fair earlier this year, Vanessa Wheeler sat down with the author Amy Sackville to ask her about her writing techniques, and the release of her third novel, Painter...
Interview | Trate | Emotive Brutes
Canadian artist Trate is causing a stir in London’s art world, and this will intensify next year when he holds his first U.K show. Digby Warde-Aldam tracked him down to his east end...
The London Magazine Podcast | Episode 4 | A Discovery of Ancient Literature
We were recently contacted by Reverend Christian Mitchell of the church of Heathfield in rural Sussex, who had made a remarkable discovery. In one of the rectories attached to an old church in the...
Spotlight II: Dostoyevsky Wannabe
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and 60s, when young writers like Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes found a home in...
Interview | Momtaza Mehri — Young People’s Laureate for London
Yesterday we spoke to artist and poet Momtaza Mehri, who has recently been announced as Young People’s Laureate for London, who will take over from poet and musician Caleb Femi in the role which was launched by Spread The Word Last Year.
Interview | Roubi L’Roubi | Saatchi Gallery | Forests and Spirits: Figurative art from...
An interview with Roubi L’Roubi, co-curator of Forests and Spirits: Figurative art from the Khartoum School, a new exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.
The London Magazine Podcast | Episode 3 | Dr Matthew Green

Welcome to episode 3 of The London Magazine podcast!
This month, we spoke to Dr Matthew Green, author of London: A Travel Guide Through Time, who spoke to us about the birth of magazine culture...
Interview | Richard Hearns
The acclaimed Irish artist Richard Hearns has an upcoming exhibition entitled Journey at Cadogan Contemporary. This will be the artist’s first solo show in London and will feature a collection of abstract oil paintings...
Interview | Ben Aleshire
Ben Aleshire makes his living as a travelling poet, writing poems on his typewriter for whatever his readers can spare as a donation, a venture which has seen him travel all over Europe and...
2018 Essay Competition | Judges’ Interview Nicola Griffith and Pico Iyer
We had a quick conversation with the judges of our 2018 Essay Writing Competition — Nicola Griffith and Pico Iyer — about their writing, big names in non-fiction today, and any tips they might...
The London Magazine Podcast – Episode 2 – An Interview with Katie Hale
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We are pleased to share with you the second episode of our new podcast.
In this episode, Suzannah V. Evans interviews poet Katie Hale at StAnza Poetry Festival, and...
Interview | Sophie Mackintosh
Last month Megan Girdwood reviewed Sophie Mackintosh’s debut dystopian novel The Water Cure, rendering it uneasy, hypnotic and yet so captivating. We asked Sophie about her feminist piece which tells the story of three...
Interview | Lucy Pearson, The Literary Edit
Lucy Pearson runs The Literary Edit book blog and @the_litedit on Instagram. She has over 11,000 followers and has been blogging since 2012, and most recently won The London Book Fair's Blogger of the...