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21.01.2022 Our 'Letters to the Editor' Zoom conversation with Jim Davidson is next week! Register now to take a tour through some of the correspondence (and other hidden treasures) in the Meanjin archives. go.unimelb.edu.au/89pi
19.01.2022 Unpacking the Cultural Cringe: an in-person (and online) Meanjin event Join us at the University of Melbourne on Monday 26th April for a one-hour panel discussion surrounding the idea of cultural cringe. The concept was brought to life in a 1950 Meanjin essay by A A Phillips, who despaired of Australian cultural genuflection towards the British. To what cultures does contemporary Australia cringe, and for what reasons? What is the role of a literary culture in emboldening the... national conversation? Meanjin editor Jonathan Green will be joined by academic Dr Rachael Weaver, writer and critic Declan Fry, and author Maxine Beneba Clarke to explore Meanjin’s part in the formation of an Australian cultural identity. This discussion forms part of a project celebrating 80 Years of Meanjin, drawing upon items and records held within Archives and Special Collections. We'll be presenting an online exhibition along with a short series of online conversations exploring ideas from the 80 year history of Meanjin. The event will commence at 12pm AEDT at the William McMahon Ball theatre in the Old Arts Building at the University of Melbourne. RSVP to attend in person, or register for the online webinar here: go.unimelb.edu.au/d32i
19.01.2022 There are just two days left to take advantage of our Autumn subscriber offer! Subscribe in print before 1 April and you'll receive a FREE 100% linen Meanjin 80th birthday tea towel. https://meanjin.com.au/subscribe/
17.01.2022 Announcing the Meanjin University of Melbourne Student Poetry Competition! If you're a current student of The University of Melbourne, send us your poetry of any theme, length and style before 10 May. The winner will receive $500 and publication in our Spring 2021 edition.
17.01.2022 Meanjin poetry submission are currently open! Send us your best work by December 18 via Submittable: https://meanjin.submittable.com/submit
15.01.2022 There are just a few days left of our subscriberthon time is running out! https://meanjin.com.au/subscribe/ Subscribe or renew your print subscription between 7 11 December (gift subscriptions and joint subscriptions with other journals included) and you could win one of:... 6 libraries of over 50 Australian books published in the last 18 months, valued at over $1500 each, including: Tell Me Why by Archie Roach Truth is Trouble by Malcolm Knox Hearing Maud by Jessica White Meeting the Waylo by Tiffany Shellam Where the Fruit Falls by Karen Wyld Infinite Splendours by Sofie Laguna Songspirals by the Gay’wu Group of Women Carbon Club by Marian Wilkinson Son of the Brush by Tim Olsen A Secret Australia by Felicity Ruby and Peter Cronau Democratic Adventurer by Sean Scalmer Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis et al Dunera Lives: A Visual Profile by Ken Inglis et al Phosphorescence by Julia Baird The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte Sea People by Christina Thompson The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Wilson Unseen by Jacinta Parsons After Australia edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad The Climate Cure by Tim Flannery One Day I’ll Remember This by Helen Garner The Burning Island by Jock Serong A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville What Happens Next by Emma Dawson and Janet McCalman Oil Under Troubled Water by Bernard Collaery An Eye for Eternity by Mark McKenna The Truth of the Palace Letters by Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston What Is to Be Done by Barry Jones The Palace Letters by Jenny Hocking On Getting Off: Sex and Philosophy by Damon Young Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs Northside by Warren Kirk Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar Rebel Without a Clause by Sue Butler The Dressmaker’s Secret by Rosalie Ham Family Trees by Michael Farrell A Body of Water by Beverly Farmer The Time of Our Lives by Robert Dessaix Watsonia by Don Watson On Beverly Farmer by Josephine Rowe See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill Sludge by Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies Throat by Ellen van Neerven The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr Call of the Reed Warbler by Charles Massey There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett On Money by Rick Morton Kokomo by Victoria Hannan Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green PLUS, we've also got: 10 free subscriptions to Crikey valued at $199 each 5 free subscriptions to ArtsHub valued at $149 each And, every print subscriber will receive a free Meanjin 80th birthday 100% linen tea towel.
15.01.2022 Join us tomorrow at 5pm AEDT, for Meanjin's 80th Birthday Party via Zoom. Writers Behrouz Boochani and Tara June Winch will be speaking about time, home, futures, and remote friendship, moderated by Meanjin editor Jonathan Green. This is a free online-only conversation hosted by Australia at Home. Find our more information and register here: https://australiaathome.com.au/upcoming-convers/meanjin80th.
11.01.2022 A selection of gems from the Meanjin archives: 1. A letter from Gwen Harwood to Meanjin editor Clem Christesen from 1960 2. A postcard for Clem from Anaïs Nin, 1954... To hear more about Clem Christesen and the history of the Meanjin editorship, join us tomorrow, Wednesday the 24th of March as Meanjin editor Jonathan Green and historian, author and former Meanjin editor Jim Davidson discuss ‘Letters to the Editor’. This free one-hour Zoom event will commence at 12pm AEDT. This is the second in of a series of events that are a collaboration between Archives and Special Collections and Meanjin to celebrate our 80th year. Register for the event: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/89pi See more
04.01.2022 Have you registered for our upcoming event yet? Join us on Monday the 26th of April as Maxine Beneba Clark, Rachael Weaver, Declan Fry and Alice Pung unpack the cultural cringe. Register to attend in person at the University of Melbourne (seating limited!) or via Zoom: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/d32i
03.01.2022 It's the last day of our greatest ever subscriberthon meaning, it's your last opportunity to take advantage of our enticing offer! Subscribe or renew your print subscription before midnight today (gift subscriptions and joint subscriptions with Overland Literary Journal, Southerly Journal, Island magazine, Griffith Review, Westerly Magazine and Australian Book Review included) and you could win one of: 6 libraries of over 50 Australian books published in the last 18 month...s, valued at over $1500 each 10 free subscriptions to Crikey valued at $199 each 5 free subscriptions to ArtsHub valued at $149 each And, don't forget: EVERY print subscriber will receive a free Meanjin 80th birthday 100% linen tea towel. https://meanjin.com.au/subscribe/
03.01.2022 Do you like books? We've got something special for you... Subscribe to Meanjin this week and you could win one of six libraries of Australian contemporary books, including over 50 titles, worth more than $1,500 each. Click here for the full list of titles: https://meanjin.com.au//meanjin-subscriberthon-what-you-c/... https://meanjin.com.au/subscribe/
