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Meanjin has been resurrected by QUT, in a clever move

Literary journal Meanjin has been resurrected. The 85-year-old journal will return to its origins in Brisbane, where it was founded in 1940 by editor Clem Christesen.

The Conversation · Feb 11

Decision to close Meanjin criticised as act of ‘utter cultural vandalism’

Shutting long-running literary journal, which published emerging writers as well as the cream of Australia’s literary talent, described as ‘enormous loss’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 4, 2025

How the parallel lives of two influential editors shaped Australia's literary culture

The cover of Jim Davidson’s Emperors in Lilliput juxtaposes a photograph of Meanjin’s Clem Christesen smoking a pipe with a picture of Overland’s Stephen Murray-Smith lighting his.

The Conversation · Nov 1, 2022