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Meanjin Quarterly
Includes an interview with author and poet Luke Davies. Fiona McGregor, inspired by a trip to Poland, examines the concept of decadence; Paul Mitchell considers violence between brothers; and much…
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In the March edition of Meanjin, Lorin Clarke investigates whether the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is as funny as it could be, Kate Holden considers the relationship between sex work…
Features new writing by Declan Kelly, Nam Le, Mark Dapin, Lynden Hyatt, John Kinsella, Louise Swinn, Clive James, Dorothy Porter, and more.
Fiction and non-fiction contributions from Mike Pottenger, Carolyn Fraser, Justin Clemens, Georgia Balin, Nadia Wheatley, Tim Richards, and many more.
Jane Gleeson-White ponders why we still love the classics and Richard King rethinks Shakespeare’s sonnets and speculations of love. In other essays, Mel Campbell examines Michael Jackson’s public image and…
This edition looks at charisma: of religion, of science, of teachers, from the perspective of 15 different writers.
In this edition of Meanjin, Michael Ackland discusses whaling, Katherine Wilson gives us the lowdown on Steampunk, Tanya McIntyre and Mick Harvey show us Melbourne’s seventies punk scene, Guy Rundle…
In the September issues of Meanjin Helen Garner talks about literary issues with Michael Gawenda, Ivor Indyke considers some of the challenges and opportunities for publishing in the Meanland essay…
Meanjin was founded in Brisbane by Clem Christesen (the name, pronounced Mee-an-jin, is derived from an Aboriginal word for the finger of land on which central Brisbane sits) in 1940.
The literary magazine, ‘Meanjin’ reflects the breadth of contemporary thinking and writing through essays, interviews, memoir, fiction, poetry and visual art.
IWith the September edition of Meanjin we welcome Spring at last, and with a new season we take you to new places, show you new perspectives and consider new solutions…
In December we have writing from Guy Rundle, Lorin Clarke, David Mence, Margo Lanagan, Kevin Brophy and many more.
In June, Meanjin brings you the Meanjin Paper ‘The Sexual Politics of Power’ by Anne Summers, tales of architecture and superstition from Meg Mundell, while Mark McKenna looks at the…
Meanjin is a quarterly literary journal publishing the best new writing from established voices and emerging talents. For over 70 years Meanjin has articulated questions of national importance, questions or…
The March 2014 issue of Meanjin is full of outsiders, revolutionaries and dissenters. We discover a lost archive of photographs of Charmian Clift on and George Johnson on Hydra in…
The June issue of Meanjin is one for taking stock and taking risks. Liam Pieper argues that we’ve well and truly lost the war on drugs, Suzy Freeman-Greene takes a…
In the March 2015 issue of Meanjin Melanie Joosten reflects on the work of artist Ella Dreyfus and asks why we so rarely see depictions of elderly bodies, Paul Daley…
The special issue features essays, interview and memoir from diverse notable Australian voices including Cheryl Saunders, Melissa Lucashenko, Gillian Triggs, Peter Doherty, Doug Hendrie, Cathy McGowan and many more.
The summer 2015 issue of Meanjin has a wonderful essay from author and academic Margaret Simons based on an extraordinary novella-length love letter from Germaine Greer to Martin Amis.
The Meanjin winter issue takes on the culture wars. It’s an essential primer in this election season written by Melbourne academic Mark Davis, the man who brought you Gangland, the…
The spring issue of Meanjin looks at one of the great social changes of our time- the irresistible rise of the single woman.
Not the marrying kind? You’re not alone…
A tinge of sadness in this June 2017 edition of Meanjin- it includes the last Commonplace column filed by John Clarke before his death in April. Published with the kind…
Winter 2018
Clementine Ford wonders whether the #MeToo movement represents a turning point for women, Anna Spargo-Ryan thinks not- ‘In the wake of #MeToo, when women said 'this time it…
‘Between 1970 and 2012, according to the World Wildlife Fund, the population of non-human vertebrate animals on earth dropped by 58%…’
;In her lead essay in the Spring edition of…
Featuring Briohny Doyle on technology, time, sex and paranoia. Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian maintain an online conversation during The Last Days of Manus Prison. Katharine Murphy charts the decline…
Think of an Australian writer and chances are that at some time or another they’ve had short fiction published in Meanjin. For the first time a treasure trove of this…
In the issue’s cover essay, ‘Queer and Now’, Adolfo Aranjuez writes on sexuality, gender and the trouble with pinning down a satisfactory, and true, sense of self.
In the lead essay for the Winter issue of Meanjin, titled The Woman is Hysterical, author Fiona Wright argues that it’s high time we trusted women to know their own…
Spring Edition
Another great collection of new Australian writing, across essays, memoir, short fiction and poetry.
In the lead essay UNEARTHED- Last Days of The Anthropocene, James Bradley writes compellingly…
Publishing on December 3, a Bumper edition of summer reading with six new pieces of Australian short fiction.
‘On the afternoon of first contact Cook’s crew shot two Gwaegal men…
In this edition’s cover essay, Gomeroi poet, essayist and scholar Alison Whittaker takes on the idea of white fragility and asks ‘Has white people becoming more aware of their fragilities…
‘… embracing anger is a political act. This is not a personal project but a social one-being passive and perpetually afraid of your power reinforces the status quo, and I…
‘The world knows that the Australian immigration process is very tough.’ In the magazine’s cover feature Still Lives, five people now resident in Australia and New Zealand tell in vivid…
Queensland academic, Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman Chelsea Watego writes powerfully on the necessity of ‘walking away’ from colonial institutions and constructs, in order to find the truth of…
Featuring-;;Guy Rundle on Don Watson on Paul Keating;;Interviews with-;;Malcolm Fraser;Peter Nicholls;Guan Wei;Ken Taylor;Nick McDonell;;Vera Mackie’s Arghan Nights;Peter Craven on Tim Winton, Jonathan Franzen, Ian McEwan;Caroline Brothers’ first bullfight;Gary Catalano on…
Volume 66. No. 1 of Meanjin features Robert Dessaix, Leigh Redhead, Christina Stead, Henry Handel Richardson, and Matthew Flinders, among others.
