Slightly Foxed is a British quarterly literary magazine. Its primary focus is books and book culture. It was established by former John Murray editors Hazel Wood and Gail Pirkis.[2] Notable authors to have written for the magazine include Penelope Lively, Richard Mabey, Diana Athill, Ronald Blythe and Robert Macfarlane.[3]
 Issue 58 | |
| Editor | Hazel Wood and Gail Pirkis |
|---|---|
| Categories | Literature, books |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Publisher | Slightly Foxed |
| Paid circulation | 10,000[1] |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | Hoxton, London |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.foxedquarterly.com |
Instead of books currently marketed by big publishers, Slightly Foxed tends to examine older and more obscure titles. Its title comes from the term "slightly foxed" as a description of a book's physical quality, commonly used in the second-hand book trade to describe minor foxing, the occurrence of brown spots on older paper.
As well as the magazine itself, Slightly Foxed has a books imprint.[4] Original books published by the imprint include Philip Evans' Country Doctor's Common Place Book [5][6][7] and Charles Phillipson’s Letters to Michael (selected by the Telegraph as one of the best books of 2021).[8] The imprint has also reissued a number of classic works and children's books, including Rosemary Sutcliff's novels about Roman Britain and the Carey novels of Ronald Welch.[9]
Since 2014, the magazine has sponsored the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for the best first biography or literary memoir published each year.[10] In 2023, the prize was won jointly by Katherine Rundell for her biography of John Donne, Super-Infinite, and Osman Yousefzada for his memoir The Go-Between.[11] Winners from previous years include Edmund Gordon for The Invention of Angela Carter [12] and Alan Cumming for Not My Father’s Son. [13]
In addition to the quarterly magazine, Slightly Foxed produces a podcast about books, book culture and writers.[14]
Between 2009 and 2016 Slightly Foxed ran a bookshop of the same name on London's Gloucester Road.[15]
The magazine's offices are based at Hoxton Square, London, N1.