Authors and author fees

Meanjin will consider unsolicited manuscripts from Australian and overseas writers. Contributors are paid a minimum of $50 per printed page. Please note that Meanjin’s September and December issues are full so we are only considering articles for 2011.

Types of contribution

We are interested in material in diverse genres including:

• Fiction

• Creative non-fiction

• Memoir

• Cultural analysis

• Graphic stories

• Poetry (please note that poetry submissions for 2010 have now closed. Deadlines for 2011 are below)

Submitting Your Work

Submissions should be sent in hard copy with a covering letter including full contact details and a brief biographical note.

Feel free to send more than one example of your work, but be aware that we may not be able to read long or multiple submissions with the same care and attention as shorter selections. We do not impose word limits on submissions, but note that we rarely publish work over 5,000 words.

A stamped, self-addressed envelope or international reply coupon must be included with all submissions. We cannot undertake to return manuscripts or advise about unsuccessful submissions unless this is provided. If we choose to publish your work, we will request a copy sent by email as an attachment or, where that is not possible, on disk.

Please allow three months for a response to unsolicited pieces. Submissions should be sent to:

Meanjin
187 Grattan Street
Carlton, Victoria 3053
Australia

Poetry Deadlines

Submissions for June Vol 70/2 2011 close 15 Jan 2011.

Submissions for Sept Vol 70/3 2011 close 15 April 2011.

Submissions for Dec Vol 70/4 2011 close 15 July 2011.

Style

We strongly encourage writers to look at a recent issue of Meanjin for guidance to house style and the kind of articles we publish. We use endnotes, not footnotes and request that these notes be kept to a minimum. Where used, they must include full publication details, including author’s full name, publisher, and date and place of publication.

Please think carefully before submitting an unrevised conference paper or chapter from a thesis or novel. Meanjin has sometimes published work that has originated in this way, but such writing often requires substantial revision to be publishable as a stand-alone contribution.

Contributor Payments and Fees

Contributors are paid minimum fees of $50 for poetry and $100 for prose. The total fee will be determined by the number of pages the article fills in published form, so we can’t give any precise sum until we have final proofs. The average fee paid is about $50 (Australian) per printed page; higher fees are sometimes paid to specially commissioned authors. Each author owns the copyright to his or her work while Meanjin keeps copyright of the collection. All authors we publish are sent a detailed contract.

ADVERTISING IN MEANJIN

Deadlines for artwork

#3, 2010 (Release date: September 1)
Advertisements in text
Copy: June 23

#4, 2010 (Release date: December 1)
Advertisements in text
Copy: September 15

Specifications and rates (not including GST)

• Full page, 127.6mm x 208.6mm (portrait): $600
  
• Half page, 127.6mm x 100mm (landscape): $300

Discounts for arts organisations/faculties/publications: 15% (per single issue); 20% for two successive issues; 25% for full year (4 issues). Contracts by arrangement.

Both black-and-white and two-colour (second colour constrained by Meanjin’s design) is available. Advertisements need to be supplied as jpgs or Photoshop tiff files (using Stuffit Deluxe to compress if sending via email), with images at least 200 pixels per inch at actual size. Extra rates will apply for design of text or artwork by Meanjin production team.

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