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Merryness and thank yous all round

Sophie Cunningham December 18

It has come to my attention that some strange people will be going on holidays as of today and that they may not have access to the internet for a while. God knows how these folks will cope with the anxiety of not having constant access to the internets, but, strange people, I wish you well.

It's been a good year for Meanjin. We've been around Australia spruiking ourselves, had increasing luck in extracting our articles (thanks here to the wonderful Clare Marshall, our publicist), had several book deals grow out of pieces first published in Meanjin (Anthony Macris, Abigail Ulman, Mark Mordue and Maggie Mackeller just to name the first few who come to mind) and there's a sense our articles are being read, linked to, reviewed and talked about. We've digitized our archives, thanks to Informit. Subscribers and readership have been increasing, albeit modestly - but hey, there's been a global financial crisis which makes modest increases TOTALLY AWESOME.

Where we have had immodest success is with Spike, which has really taken off - we often gets 500 hits a day and when we started this was only 200. Who knows what a hit actually is? Not me. But apparently they are good things, so being hit alot also strikes me as TOTALLY AWESOME. It's due, in the main, to Jessica Au who has displayed a real talent for blogging - both for written, and for more visual posts. So, to her, I give my thanks. Thanks too, to Stuart Geddes, of Chase and Galley, who is my designer, but alot more than that - he's been an essential part of the Meanjin team. At the risk of over doing this, thanks to Jeremy Wortsman of Jacky Winter, who helps us decide on our illustrators; our web dudes Inventive Labs and Golden Grouse; to Judith Beveridge, our superlative poetry editor; to Overland for much excellent collaborative work and onlya minimal amount of cheating at games; to Richard McGregor (our copyeditor) and Mary Kennedy (our office manager) who have both been with Meanjin for many years and have given us a sense of continuity to off set the sometimes chaotic changes the journal has been going through. Lastly, but not leastly, thanks to my interns through the year who have contributed much good, indeed essential, work for absolutely no money at all: Ian See, Gemma Peckham and Emily Kiddell.

I've written alot already about Meanland, so I wont go on about that - but suffice to say 2010 is looking like an interesting year. I'm looking forward to it. Hope you are too. And, finally, it's corny but true, we couldn't do any of it without you, our readers and contributors.

On a more prosaic note, Spike will be closed from December 25 until January 11 - as will Meanjin's offices. In the meantime:

 

Our Friends

• Overland
• Alien Onion
• Ampersand Duck
• Andrew McDonald
• A Pair of Ragged Claws
• Arts Victoria
• Australia Council for the Arts
• Ben Eltham
• Bookshow blog
• CAL
• City of Tongues
• Crikey
• darkly wise, rudely great
• David Astle
• Elmo Keep Does Stuff
• The Ember
• Fly the Falcon blog
• Going Down Swinging
• Griffith Review
• Hackpacker
• Harvest
• HEAT
• Island
• Killings blog
• Literary Minded
• Lorraine Crescent
• Lynden Barber
• Mandy Ord
• Marcus Westbury
• Matilda
• Meanland
• Melbourne University Publishing
• Mel Campbell
• The Monthly
• Musings of an Inappropriate Woman
• Oslo Davis
• Paul Callaghan
• Read, Think, Write
• Sleepers Publishing
• Sorrow at Sills Bend
• SPLOG
• Tom Cho
• Virgule
• Wet Ink
• Wheeler Centre

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