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Statement on <em>Meanjin</em>

Statement on Meanjin

4 September 2025
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) announced today that Meanjin will cease publication after its final issue ...
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Well Past Milking Hour

Well Past Milking Hour

Patrick Eades
7 August 2025
On the first day after the cows disappear, I swing both feet onto the earth ...
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The Book of Empirical Observations

The Book of Empirical Observations

Amanda Hildebrandt
6 August 2025
I took a shower that first night because the bathtub was filled with packing peanuts ...
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Eel feelings

Eel feelings

Finley Japp
4 August 2025
Webster’s argument in The Slip is that the forces of grief and desire are irremediably ...
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Essays

‘We shall all have to live with this’: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal

‘We shall all have to live with this’: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal

Tom McIlroy
Spring 2025, Spring 2025
17 September 2025
Australia in Three Books: Anxiety

Australia in Three Books: Anxiety

Kris Kneen
Spring 2025
17 September 2025
Arts legacy imperilled

Arts legacy imperilled

Ben Eltham
Spring 2025, Spring 2025
17 September 2025
Impending cataclysm

Impending cataclysm

Tyson Kane
Spring 2025, Spring 2025, Spring 2025, Spring 2025
17 September 2025

Women, Whitlam and the ‘gender card’: 50 years of women in parliament

Virginia Haussegger
Spring 2025
17 September 2025

OUT NOW! Essays that Changed Australia: Meanjin 1940 to today.

Fiction

The flight of birds

The flight of birds

Huyen Hac Helen Tran
Spring 2025
17 September 2025
Sea Glass

Sea Glass

Laura Elvery
Spring 2025
17 September 2025
I say you say

I say you say

Eric Jiang
Spring 2025
17 September 2025
Well Past Milking Hour

Well Past Milking Hour

Patrick Eades
7 August 2025
The Book of Empirical Observations

The Book of Empirical Observations

Amanda Hildebrandt
6 August 2025

Memoir

My sister's vessel

My sister’s vessel

Indigo Perry
Spring 2025
17 September 2025
Preludes for an Ending

Preludes for an Ending

Dani Netherclift
Spring 2025, Spring 2025, Spring 2025
17 September 2025
Sounds of the tip, or: Learning to listen to Oxley Creek Common

Sounds of the tip, or: Learning to listen to Oxley Creek Common

Stuart Cooke
Winter 2025
18 June 2025
A refugee daughter's pilgrimage

A refugee daughter’s pilgrimage

Lisa Pham
Winter 2025
18 June 2025
A woman now

A woman now

Nicole Jacobsen
Winter 2025
18 June 2025

Poetry

Earth Mother

Earth Mother

Alison J Barton
Spring 2025
17 September 2025
On the preservation of violence

On the preservation of violence

Micaela Sahhar
Spring 2025
17 September 2025
The Museum of Wronged Women

The Museum of Wronged Women

Izzy Roberts-Orr
Spring 2025
17 September 2025
Correcting the Record: Statement from Really Distressed Dog

Correcting the Record: Statement from Really Distressed Dog

Sara M Saleh
Spring 2025
17 September 2025
love song dedication

love song dedication

Dominic Symes
Spring 2025, Spring 2025
17 September 2025

Books

Australia in Three Books: Anxiety

Australia in Three Books: Anxiety

Kris Kneen
Spring 2025
17 September 2025
Not like the others: on power, pedagogical relationships and being special

Not like the others: on power, pedagogical relationships and being special

Samantha Floreani
Spring 2025, Spring 2025
17 September 2025
As above, so below

As above, so below

Alice Bellette
Spring 2025
17 September 2025
Calabasas Katabasis

Calabasas Katabasis

Giacomo Bianchino
Spring 2025, Spring 2025, Spring 2025
17 September 2025
Embracing the Ordinary

Embracing the Ordinary

Courtney Powell
15 September 2025

Experiments

Stages of Decomposition

Stages of Decomposition

Bridget Webster
Winter 2025
18 June 2025
Diagrammatica

Diagrammatica

Jason Maling
Autumn 2025
19 March 2025
Photographic Texts

Photographic Texts

Patrick Pound
Spring 2024
13 September 2024
From the Midfield

From the Midfield

Julien Leyre
Spring 2024
13 September 2024
Live Laugh Decolonise

Live Laugh Decolonise

Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra with Chelsea Watego, BADASSMUTHA, Nima Doostkah, Rivermouth
17 July 2024

The Year In…

The Year in Queering Games

The Year in Queering Games

Xavier Ho
Spring 2025
17 September 2025
The Year in Dance

The Year in Dance

Carl Sciberras
Winter 2025
18 June 2025
The Year in Yellowface

The Year in Yellowface

Jacqueline Lo
Autumn 2025
19 March 2025
The Year in Poetry

The Year in Poetry

Graham Akhurst & Shastra Deo
Summer 2024
1 December 2024
The Year in Satire

The Year in Satire

Shaun Micallef
Spring 2024
13 September 2024

What I’m Reading

What I'm Reading

What I’m Reading

Michael Winkler
21 January 2025
What I'm Reading

What I’m Reading

Chloe-Gabrielle Fuller
13 January 2025
What I'm Reading

What I’m Reading

Roumina Parsa
16 August 2024
What I'm Reading

What I’m Reading

Tyberius Larking
25 July 2024
What I'm Reading

What I’m Reading

Amelia C. Winter
18 July 2024

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