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Welcome to the new Meanjin, Part 2

Zora Sanders September 06

We hope you’ve enjoyed getting to know the new Meanjin website over the last few days. You will notice lots of small changes as the site is perfected and new features added.

A few things to explain. We are posting a new article every week day. Everything from the current September edition will appear online, along with some choice selections from other 2011 editions, once a day, every weekday. Every day you’ll see a different piece of artwork from an Australian artist in the Meanjin masthead, as part of our ‘Cutting Room Floor’ project, alongside the new piece of the day.

Once all the September content has been posted online other new pieces we have commissioned will be published. Every weekday from now on, there will be a high quality Meanjin piece: essays, poetry, fiction, memoir, conversations, videos, recordings, and much more.

The quarterly print journal will still be released in March, June, September and December, which means that the pieces you find inside may have already been posted online or they may appear online afterwards. Obviously, publishing new works every week day means not everything published on the website will be published in the quarterly magazine. The journal will be a collected works, an almanac, and all the content will be free online and accessible to everyone.

The quarterly has a gorgeous new design, thanks to artist and designer Jenny Grigg. Jenny also designed this website with the aim of complementing the print journal, while expanding on the publishing possibilities open to Meanjin. The magazine will still be available in good bookstores, by subscription and by contacting the Meanjin office. We love the new hard copy design, and are committed to delivering it to all our readers who value it so much.

The blog will also be updated daily, a space to reflect and comment upon new ideas and events unfolding in the literary and cultural world. We will continue to feature guest bloggers, cover festivals and events and bring you interviews with practicing writers, artists, poets and figures who bring us new insights.

The Meanjin blog will the place where we can respond to what is happening in the cultural life of this country in a timely way, and where you can join the debate by posting in the comments section.

Another feature of the website is the ‘read later’ button that appears under the author by-line on each article. If you click through you can save the articles through Instapaper, and read them any time, even without an internet connection.

At the top of the homepage you’ll see the link to the Meanjin Tournament of Books, an event which will launch at the Wheeler Centre before moving online here.The Tournament will be a long running online event where you can follow the progress of 16 books by Australian women as they go head to head in online matches. Learn more about it by reading this introduction. This will be a special part of the site put aside of online events and activities, of which we hope to have many in the coming months.

As always you can contact us here, or via Facebook and Twitter.


 

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