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THE VANITY PAPERS OXFORD LITERARY REVIEW

The Vanity Papers Oxford Literary Review is a home to many writers from the university and influential voices of the future century. Contributors have written for The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, The New York Times, JStor, Wet Grain The Minnesota Review, The London Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine, The Oxford Magazine and have won amongst others, The Gower Prize, The PenCraft Book Award and The Oxford-BNU Creative Writing Award. 

Published with support from the Kellogg College MCR, the HMC JCR and the Harris Manchester Literary Society.

Editor-In-Chief

RUPA WOOD  is an award-winning writer and multi-diciplinary artist. She is the chair of the Harris Manchester Literary Society and is based at The University of Oxford researching the cognitive sciences to inform a work of long-form fiction.

Business Director

CATHERINE DIGMAN has exhibited alongside Anthony van Dyck and Grayson Perry, and was one of the founding members of The Speculators, a cutting-edge writing workshop based in the Midlands. She is an award-winning artist and writer, currently reading History at Harris Manchester College Oxford. Her research interests include the intersection between History & Fiction, Decolonisation, and Mythology.  

Editor 

ROLAND FISCHER-VOUSDEN lives and works between London and Newcastle. He runs the arts organisation SET.

Editor 

BIDDY VOUSDEN lives in South Wales. When she isn't writing, editing or marking, she likes working with glass and wood. She has just completed her second novel.

Events manager 

JENNIFER NOLAN is a DPhil student in Archaeology at Kellogg College. She enjoys writing poetry and collecting antiquarian books specializing in Gothic literature and antiquities.

Poetry Editor 

Experienced poets are invited to work on the next issue as a guest editor, please get in touch. 

Submissions Open 

On the theme of Movement. You are welcome to submit art / fiction / poetry / essay. Interpret the theme as you wish. Please send only original, unpublished work, to a maximum of 4000 words. Until December 1st 2024.