Meanjin Quarterly

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In the latest for Meanjin’s What I’m Reading series, Michael Winkler (@MicWink) wrestles with Gabriel de Foigny’s imagined Australia in The Known Southern Land, translated by Dana J. Lupo (@SpurlEditions). meanjin.com.au/latest/what-im…

Submissions in all forms for Meanjin Winter 2025 are open! Read the full guidelines and submit here —meanjin.submittable.com/submit

Join us in Kamberri/Canberra on Saturday 7 December to launch, salon-style, Meanjin Summer 2024 and Essays that Changed Australia! With Jasper Lindell (@jclindell) and Esther Anatolitis (@_esther). RSVP here —stickytickets.com.au/by2fh/meanjin_…

'...Evie Wyld’s The Echoes ultimately ends up reinforcing what it might claim to challenge.' In our latest for Meanjin Daily, Elias Greig (@elias_greig) reckons with the troubling colonial hauntings of Evie Wyld's The Echoes. meanjin.com.au/latest/old-hau…

and @ned_hirst reckons with @RobbieArnott's Dusk (@MacmillanAus). 'One can think of the novel as an Australian Beowulf...' meanjin.com.au/latest/big-cat…

In the first of this month's online reviews, @RuthMahalia considers Michelle de Kretser's Theory and Practice (@text_publishing). 'Theory & Practice takes seriously what it means to love: not only people, but ideas too.' meanjin.com.au/latest/build-y…

Launching tonight! Join us at naarm ngarrgu at 5pm— events.humanitix.com/book-launch-or…

Today is publication day for Essays that Changed Australia: Meanjin 1940 to today! @MUPublishing Order now—mup.com.au/books/essays-t… And join us at the launch on 18 November!—events.humanitix.com/book-launch-or…

Our 2024 Subscriberthon is in full swing! Subscribe or renew a subscription—from just $5 a month!—to help us continue to support Australia's finest writing, and enter the draw to win from a suite of prizes! Until 15 November. Read more—meanjin.com.au/latest/meanjin…

The power of the artist has never been more crucial to our future—nor more imperilled. Coming on 2 December, Meanjin 83.4 Summer 2024. Read more here: meanjin.com.au/latest/coming-… and subscribe at meanjin.com.au!

Join us for one of the most special Meanjin events of the decade. 18 November / 5-7 PM / naarm ngarrgu library / Tony Birch and @_esther in conversation for Meanjin Essays that Changed Australia! @MUPublishing (mup.com.au/books/essays-t…) Book here: events.humanitix.com/book-launch-or…

You can read Uncle Rodney's piece, 'Djaara: The essential ingredient' here — meanjin.com.au/essays/djaara-…

Dja Dja Wurrung Elder Uncle Rodney Carter, author of the Meanjin Paper in our Winter 2024 issue, recently spoke with Michael Lester about the great work DJAARA are doing in caring for Country— listen in! mixcloud.com/michael-lester…

Claire G. Coleman's (@clairegcoleman) 'The Australian constitution, annotated', in the heartfelt words of a reader from Kamberri/Canberra. Read Claire's piece — now unpaywalled — here: meanjin.com.au/essays/the-aus….

Join us Saturday 5 October at the National Library of Australia Bookshop on Ngunnawal Land, Ngambri/Canberra to launch Meanjin 83.3 Spring 2024! With poetry from Owen Bullock and conversation with @fbongiornoanu and @_esther, you don't want to miss it. nla.gov.au/whats-on/event…

September! Hope you've woken up now. More reviews online in @Meanjin as usual, read here: meanjin.com.au/books