Meanjin

Meanjin is a literary journal based in Australia. Its name, pronounced Mee-AN-jin, comes from an Aboriginal term that refers to the distinctive piece of land where Brisbane is situated.

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The Literal Truth

2 months ago | meanjin.com.au | Colleen Keane

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Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025 is out today!

2 months ago | meanjin.com.au | Esther Anatolitis

Energy and life and the body. Disappointment and passion and pride. The inexorable labour of working toward the just. The work of desire, the work of identity, the work of standing still. The work of giving life, the work of telling truth, the work of making a home. This season, Meanjin’s writers are calling us to account. What are we gambling with when we settle for what’s merely adequate? What have we already sacrificed the moment we come to realise what’s at stake? What is the price of the just?
Submissions now open for poetry and fiction

2 months ago | meanjin.com.au | Esther Anatolitis

We are delighted to announce submissions are now open for our Summer 2025 issue, for fiction and poetry only. (Sorry, essay writers! Watch this space…)We strongly encourage submissions from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and racially marginalised people, and people with disability. Please note that Meanjin only considers work by Australian writers and artists. (We don’t define ‘Australian’ formally as citizenship.)Submissions need not be in English.
My pregnant life

2 months ago | meanjin.com.au | Jess Lilley

Itwaslateonenightintheearlynineties.Iwas19andhangingoutwithanartistfriendinMelbourne’sbaysidesuburbofStKilda.Itwasstillarock’n’rollpartoftownthen:Joey’sforthespeedheads,thePrinceandGreyhoundforgigsanddragqueens,andtheEspyfrontbarforanyonewhowanderedinoffthestreet.WewereatMonroe’s,alocalinstitution,kickingonalongsideabunchofreprobatestoohungryforactiontosleep.Afterwards,westumbleduptheroadtoafriend’sflat...
Thou shalt not covet thy prime minister’s property

2 months ago | meanjin.com.au | Rachel Withers

It was not Anthony Albanese’s beach house we resented, but the intergenerational inequity his government is unwilling to address. Embrace Australia’s finest writers: subscribe to MeanjinSubscriptions start at just $5 a month — which goes directly towards our writers’ fees. SUBSCRIBE
The monsters before and after me

2 months ago | meanjin.com.au | Sophia Cai

Reviewed: ArtMonsters, Lauren Elkin, VintageTrigger warning: pregnancy lossWhat is there to be said about feminist art from the 1970s that a generation of feminist art historians and scholars haven’t already said? Why write a second-wave feminism book when we are rooted in its aftermath, with all the problems and nuances of the present? These are the questions that run through my mind as I read Lauren Elkin’s ArtMonsters, a deep dive into feminist body art.
Dutton: a catalogue of falsehoods

2 months ago | meanjin.com.au | Daniel Hurst

A Coalition senator was in the middle of a debate about foreign policy when he let a fundamental truth drop. ‘Cognitive science indicates a thing called the illusory truth effect—that if you say it often enough, people will start to believe it,’ South Australian Liberal Senator David Fawcett told the chamber last August.1 Embrace Australia’s finest writers: subscribe to MeanjinSubscriptions start at just $5 a month — which goes directly towards our writers’ fees. SUBSCRIBE
The winding passage of grief

Dec 5, 2024 | meanjin.com.au | Megan Cheong

Reviewed: The Burrow, Melanie Cheng, TextIn Kafka’s unfinished story ‘The Burrow’, a badger-like creature recounts its increasingly paranoid efforts to defend its home against invasion. In Melanie Cheng’s novel of the same name, disaster has already invaded the home with the sudden death of six-month-old Ruby. Four years on, Jin, Amy and their remaining daughter, Lucie, persist in a holding pattern of barely suppressed grief.
Join us! Kamberri/Canberra launch at NLA, Saturday 7 December

Dec 3, 2024 | meanjin.com.au | Esther Anatolitis

Join journalist Jasper Lindell (The Canberra Times) and Meanjin Editor Esther Anatolitis for a ‘salon-style’ discussion event marking the release of both Meanjin 83.4 Summer 2024 edition and the special Meanjin anthology Essays That Changed Australia. EVENT DETAILS 3:0opm Saturday 7 December 2024 At the National Library of Australia RSVP with the National Library of Australia here. Jasper Lindell is a reporter on The Canberra Times, covering ACT politics and government.
Your heart sir

Dec 1, 2024 | meanjin.com.au | Grace Yee

Mr Ho, there are slow-leaking aneurysms in your abdomen,you are 82, Mr Ho, you’ve smoked a long time, the best we can Embrace Australia’s finest writers: subscribe to MeanjinSubscriptions start at just $5 a month — which goes directly towards our writers’ fees. SUBSCRIBE