Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) announced on 4 September 2025 that Meanjin will cease publication after its final edition in December 2025. For questions related to the impact of this announc…

Published 18 June 2025 BUY | SUBSCRIBE   What is a revolution? What are the sounds of the commons, the crickets, the carpark, the quails and the creek? Who funds culture wars, and whose intere…

Writing a piece on the energy in the Trump administration is like trying to write fiction in the apocalypse: you can’t create anything more insane than the real world. Every time I write about some…

These people don’t know what art is, so they will never truly be able to kill it. Not in the way they think, anyway.

Join us and writers, readers, and poets to launch Meanjin 84.2. Meanjin launches start manifesto-style in the Readings laneway, before heading inside. Wear your favourite coat and prepare to be moved...

Hello, dear Meanjin reader! It’s that time of year again for us to get in touch with our readers to find out how we’re doing. What do you like? What don’t you like? What would you…

There is always an appetite. It is now the gambling corporations that seek to mould everyone in their own image. They might yet be reined in.

When people break from their everyday routines, something unresolved or unwanted often emerges.

Tom Doig is the winner of the 2024 Hilary McPhee Award for his essay ‘Ten years on from Hazelwood: last decade’s second-worst disaster’, published in Meanjin 83.1 Autumn 2024. ‘It’s a great honour …

Meanjin writers share their favourite books of 2024.

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