| Editor | Sally Heath |
|---|---|
| First issue | 1940 |
| Company | Melbourne University Press |
| Website | http://www.meanjin.com.au/ |
Meanjin is an Australian literary journal. The name (pronounced Mee-AN-jin) is derived from an Aboriginal word for the land where the city of Brisbane is located.
History
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It was founded in December 1940,[1] in Brisbane, by Clem Christesen. It was published as Meanjin Papers until 1947, Meanjin from 1947 to 1960, Meanjin Quarterly from 1961 to 1976, and again as Meanjin since 1976.[2] The editorial offices moved to Melbourne in 1945. It is now a subsidiary of the University of Melbourne.
ContentEdit
Meanjin publishes
- poetry
- fiction
- graphic novels
- reflective and scholarly essays
- memoirs
- commentary
- review essays
- interviews
EditorsEdit
- 1940 to 1974: Clem Christesen
- 1974 to 1982: Jim Davidson
- 1982 to 1987: Judith Brett
- 1987 to 1994: Jenny Lee
- 1994 to 1998: Christina Thompson
- Stephanie Holt
- ??? to 2008 Ian Britain
- 2008 to 2011 Sophie Cunningham
- 2011 to present Sally Heath
Fiction EditorsEdit
- Current: Sally Heath
Poetry EditorsEdit
dates not known: Coral Hull
- mid-to-late 1970s: Kris Hemensley
- 1979 to 1982: Judith Rodriguez
- 1987 to 1994: Philip Mead
- 1994 to 1997: Laurie Duggan
- 1998: Brian Henry
- 2000 to 2005: Peter Minter
- 2005 to present: Judith Beveridge
Current Editorial DetailsEdit
Address: 187 Grattan Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia.
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Just City and The Mirrors: Meanjin Quarterly and the Intellectual Front, 1940-1965, by Lyn Strahan, 1985
- The Temperament of Generations: Fifty Years of Meanjin, edited by Jenny Lee, Philip Mead, and Gerald Murnane.
NotesEdit
- ↑ "Australian Magazines of the Twentieth Century". Austlit. http://www.austlit.edu.au/specialistDatasets/BookHistory/AustMag. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ Australian Poets and Their Works, by William Wilde. Oxford University Press, 1996
External linksEdit
- Meanjin Official website.
- Meanjin poetry.
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