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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Excited about inferiority, passionate about potatoes

1 week ago | meanjin.com.au | Gareth Morgan

Reviewed: Uses for Obsession, Ben Shewry, Murdoch PublishingI first learned of Ben Shewry, chef-owner of Attica in Melbourne, from the inaugural season of Chef’sTable(2015– present). Each high-production episode follows a single chef through their work routines and life journey. Audiences are invited to encounter the story of a handful of iconic dishes told through talking heads of local foodies, shots of chefs walking among produce, and close-ups of dishes lit like artworks in a museum.
From the River to the Sea

1 week ago | meanjin.com.au | Hannah James

Take a strip of land, once beige, now washed outash grey, charred around the edges, a corpseof civilisation. Twenty-five miles long by six mileswide. Your mother told you, there was always a fireburning. In the Old City, your father laid down the ornate floor tiles, taught you to unclasp your tongue; roll your r’s.
Waves Poem

1 week ago | meanjin.com.au | Toby Fitch

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Questioning (un)natural fantasies

4 weeks ago | meanjin.com.au | Rosalind Moran

Reviewed: Human/Nature: On Life in a Wild World, Jane Rawson, NewSouth BooksAs human influence over this planet and its climate grows increasingly pronounced, nature writing and environmental literary texts are also proliferating. It can be challenging for books in this space to stand out, but some do—and Human/Nature by Jane Rawson is one of them.
The Literal Truth

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

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Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025 is out today!

Mar 18, 2025 | 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

Mar 18, 2025 | 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

Mar 18, 2025 | 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

Mar 18, 2025 | 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

Mar 18, 2025 | 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.