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How do we bear witness to the truth of this moment? As violence and tensions escalate in the holy land, it’s easy to lose track of how we got stuck here, and how we might get unstuck. Where to begin? ...

We're excited to present a series of online reviews, edited by Cher Tan. You'll find the first offerings below—watch this space for more excellent writing soon. Reviewed: So Close To Home, Mick Cummins by Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn "In playwright and social ...

Meet our Editor and writers at Better Read Than Dead in Newtown! ...

The days grow longer, and at night the sky stays light. Embrace Australia's finest writing ...

Secret Third Thing Dan Hogan Cordite Books, 2023 Dear Andy, Truth is, I don’t understand Secret Third Thing. There’s an elusiveness to the language, an uncanny and yet discombobulating common uncommonness that, for me, harks back to bongs with your ...

Hear from our Guest Editors and writers over a glass of wine at Muse ...

The Carumba Institute at QUT and the Meanjin literary journal are delighted to announce a new publishing partnership for the annual Meanjin Oration, delivered this year by Noel Pearson. Each August the Carumba Institute, QUT’s Indigenous research and education ...

This referendum, if affirmed, will complete the Commonwealth of Australia through constitutional recognition of its Indigenous peoples. The words enshrine the presence of peoples whose ancestors made this continent their home for more than 60,000 years. In recognition of Aboriginal ...

Meanjin welcomes award-winning Wiradjuri poet and editor Jeanine Leane to the role of Poetry Editor ...

You may begin to notice some changes around the Meanjin website in coming days and weeks. We're improving legibility and accessibility, reformatting our archive, tidying up our menus, and doing everything we can to make our writers' work look as ...

Yo a national affair each week as to bring Us display compassion together Not one peoples but all proudly peoples The nature creation centuries used us as Voice change, dance change, song change Change as if the eyes are a ...

If, like me, you are over 42 years old, you would have voted in the 1999 republic referendum. This was a referendum to answer a simple question: Do we cease being a constitutional monarchy and become a republic? Despite most ...

What am I reading? Where do I start with that? With the pile of books that towers over me as I sleep? The short story ‘book snacks’ I dip in and out of between books? The open articles in my ...

Join us in the Readings Carlton laneway on Friday evening 22 September—rug up!—and let’s launch Meanjin Spring 2023 together ...

Meanjin congratulates Jasmin McGaughey, Melanie Saward, Lionel Fogarty and Maria van Neerven—writers with work about to be published in Meanjin—on their Queensland Literary Awards success at last night’s State Library of Queensland ceremony. Devoted entirely to work by Aboriginal and ...