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The White Review No. 33 features interviews with writer Siri Hustvedt and feminist scholar Sara Ahmed. The issue includes new fiction by Gina Apostol,...

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The White Review Poet’s Prize 2023
For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...

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Vanessa Onwuemezi
Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London. Her work has appeared in Prototype Magazine, Frieze, and The Literary Consultancy. Her story 'At the Heart of Things' won the The White Review Short Story Prize 2019.

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Bright Spaces

Fiction

June 2020

Vanessa Onwuemezi

Fiction

June 2020

The cat’s paws brush through the letterbox, looking for some jellied meat or an opening in the family. Cat pushes a letter through the...
At the Heart of Things

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Vanessa Onwuemezi

Prize Winner

Issue No. 26

there is no meaning. Hanging a picture on the wall I           give           a little too much force to my thumb skin breaks under pressure...

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