The Latest Breaking News from Meanjin

The axed literary journal Meanjin is back, to be run out of the city where it was originally founded 85 years ago.

The 85-year-old magazine will return to the city for which it was named after a successful bid by Queensland University of Technology

Last week’s announcement of Meanjin’s closure marks a poignant moment for Australian culture. Meanjin is a nationally significant cultural institution with a storied history. Closing it suddenly, without warning and with no consultation, on “purely financial grounds”, is a very deliberate act.

MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value

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

After 85 years of continuous publication, Meanjin, Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, is closing. Editor Esther Anatolitis and deputy editor Eli McLean have been made redundant and the final issue will appear in December. Melbourne University Publishing (MUP), which has housed the magazine since 2007, has cited “purely financial grounds” for…

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.