About Tony White

Short bio:

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Tony White’s next novel Phantom at the Feast will be published by No Exit Press in June 2026. A previous novel in the series, The Fountain in the Forest, was first published by Faber & Faber and is being reissued by No Exit Press in December 2026. Tony White’s novels include Foxy-T (Faber, 2003) and Shackleton’s Man Goes South (Science Museum, 2013), as well as numerous short stories published in journals, exhibition catalogues, and anthologies. White was creative entrepreneur in residence in the French department of King’s College London, and has been writer in residence at London’s Science Museum and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He recently collaborated with artists Blast Theory on the libraries live-streaming project A Place Free of Judgement, and from 2010–2018 chaired the board of London’s award-winning arts radio station Resonance 104.4fm. White’s short story ‘Plain Speaking’ – written to mark the 110th anniversary of Flann O’Brien – is collected in Nicholas Royle’s (ed.) Best British Short Stories 2022 (Salt, 2023) and in the German high school English text book Great Britain in Nine Short Stories (Cornelsen Verlag, 2025). Currently an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University of London and at the University of Essex, Tony White is an RLF Fellow, based at Royal Holloway University of London.

Tony White is represented by Sarah Such at the Sarah Such Literary Agency.

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Longer bio:

Tony White is the author of novels including The Fountain in the Forest (Faber and Faber, 2018), and Foxy-T (Faber and Faber, 2003). His novella Zombies Ate My Library (Blast Theory) was shortlisted in the ‘best novella’ category of the Saboteur Awards 2017. Tony White is an RLF Fellow, based at Royal Holloway University of London. His latest novel Phantom at the Feast will be published June 2026 by No Exit Press. White’s short story ‘Plain Speaking’ – written to mark the 110th anniversary of Brian O’Nolan aka Flann O’Brien – is collected in Nicholas Royle’s (ed.) Best British Short Stories 2022 (Salt, 2023) and in the German high school English text book Great Britain in Nine Short Stories (Cornelsen Verlag, 2025).

White’s novel Shackleton’s Man Goes South was published by the Science Museum as their Atmosphere Commission 2013, for digital giveaway via a specially developed touch-screen ebook dispenser. An accompanying exhibition about the novel ran in the Museum’s Atmosphere Gallery for two years until 2015. Tony is also the author of one non-fiction work Another Fool in the Balkans: In the footsteps of Rebecca West (Cadogan, 2006). His 2012 novella Dicky Star and the Garden Rule, was commissioned by arts producers Forma for publication alongside a touring exhibition by the artists Jane and Louise Wilson to mark the 25^th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

Tony White is a former chair of London’s award-winning arts radio station Resonance 104.4fm. He has been writer in residence at the Science Museum (2008), Leverhulme Trust writer in residence at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) (2009–10), and creative entrepreneur in residence and visiting research fellow in the French Department at King’s College London, funded by Creativeworks London (2013–15). White is currently an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University of London and the University of Essex. Since 1994 White has edited and published the artists’ book series Piece of Paper Press, which was the subject of an exhibition Thirty-one Years of Piece of Paper Press: artists’ books, artworks and ephemera, 1994–2025 at Matt’s Gallery, London Jan–April 2025.

Recent appearances by Tony White include readings and panel discussions in bookshops all over the UK; Off the Shelf Festival of Words, Sheffield; Festival Poligon in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina; the chapel at King’s College London; the British Library; The MAC Belfast; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Brixton Book Jam; Lit Crawl: London; London Radical Bookfair; Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature; Richard Strange’s Cabaret Futura; the Royal College of Art; Glastonbury and Port Eliot festivals; The Story Conference; ‘Guardian Masterclasses’; the Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester for ‘Whitworth Lates’; Goethe Institut; London Review Bookshop; TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland; Newcastle Writers’ Conference; TLC’s The Literary Conference: Writing in a Digital Age; and a 3-city tour of Australia funded by the Australia Council and Performance Space, Sydney.

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