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Auspicious day for reading PERIPATHETIC, the newly-released book by Cher Tan, Meanjin's Reviews Editor:

Meanjin is thrilled to be partnering with Melbourne Prize for the $10,000 Writers’ Prize, generously supported by the Robert Salzer Foundation, for a new essay of outstanding originality, literary merit and creative freshness.

Enter below! 👇

Warmest thanks to Ianto Ware, nonya, Steve Dow, Παναγιώτης Πολιτης, Katie Shammas and everyone at gleebooks for last night’s incredibly special Meanjin 83.1 launch. An important, memorable evening that we will all keep close to our hearts.
Photo by Stilgherrian.

We are thrilled to announce actor, theatre maker and poet Ella Ferris is the recipient of the 2024 Meanjin InPlace Autumn Residency.

Read our full statement here - meanjin.com.au/latest/announc….

Warmest congratulations to Ella!

'What do you sink with?
I carry the largest rock so when I leap I drown in an act that is annihilating.'

Now online - Yumna Kassab's haunting, polyphonic work 'Guernica', a piece that asks how one can write in a time of genocide. Essential reading.

meanjin.com.au/latest/guernic…

Read the first quarter of this essay by Stephen Charles AO KC and me at this link: theaimn.com/the-meanjin-es… You will need a subscription to Meanjin Quarterly for a paltry $5 per month (or $50pa) to read the rest. #auspol #democracy #integrity

In the latest in their 'Poets Correspond' series for Meanjin, Andy Jackson and Tim Loveday (Tim Loveday) discuss the contingency of form and colonial reckoning in Kirli Saunders's collection Returning (@MagabalaBooks).

Read on — meanjin.com.au/latest/poets-c…

The second in our 'What I'm Reading' series for 2024 comes from Caitlin Farrugia, whose debut short story collection 'Search Histories' is out now with Vagabond Press.

Read on for Hairy McLary, Olga Tokarczuk and clogged toilets — meanjin.com.au/latest/what-im….

Canberra! See you this afternoon at Muse for Meanjin Poetry Editor Jeanine Leane and poet Paul Magee in conversation with Editor Esther Anatolitis: meanjin.com.au/latest/join-us…

Join us at gleebooks on 24 April to discuss the complexities of writing memoir in a time of trauma, war and genocide.

Esther Anatolitis will be in conversation with Na'ama Carlin (@derridalicious), Katie Shammas and Ianto Ware (@IantoWare).

Read more here - shorturl.at/yFRV3.

Tomorrow night! Listen to Meanjin Autumn 2024 contributor Sara Saleh (sara m. saleh | سارة صالح) on 3rrrfm Spin Cycle with Jess Lilley, Charlie Lewis & Rachel Withers! 7:15 PM AEDT.

Jess Lilley 🍉 Charlie Lewis Rachel Withers

Poetry submissions for Meanjin 83.3 Spring 2024 are now open! Deadline is June 3.

Read the guidelines and submit at the link below. Happy writing!

meanjin.submittable.com/submit/292377/…

Join editor Esther Anatolitis for a talk tomorrow morning at Wagga Wagga City Library on all things Meanjin over a French-style breakfast!

This will be a fundraiser for our superb hosts at the WaggaWaggaArtGallery.

Read more and book your spot here — shorturl.at/djAXY.

Meanjin’s What I’m Reading series is back for 2024!

First, an elegant and haunting piece on reading in a time of occupation from Manisha Anjali.

Manisha’s debut poetry collection Naag Mountain will be published by Giramondo Publishing next month.

Read on - meanjin.com.au/blog-what-im-r…

Wagga Wagga!
Let's have breakfast on Wednesday morning?
We can talk Meanjin Quarterly and raise some money for our superb hosts at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery.
Book here: waggaartgallery.com.au/whats-on/progr…

The winner of the Hilary McPhee Award is Declan Fry of course and not Declan Fay—whose work is award-worthy in plenty of other ways! Our apologies, Mr Fay 🙏

Warmest congratulations to Declan Fay, winner of the 2023 Hilary McPhee Award for his essay ‘911 Lonely: Call Me Call Me Call Me’ on the work of chica marx, published in Meanjin 82.4 Summer 2023.
Read on for Declan's superb response—
meanjin.com.au/blog/congrats-…

Thank you so very much Marcus Westbury Prof Clare Wright YES Angela Maria Costi M and Phoebe Grainer for last night’s moving, powerful Meanjin 83.1 Autumn 2024 launch. A beautiful evening.
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