Meanjin
| Editor | Sally Heath |
|---|---|
| First issue | December 1940 |
| Company | Melbourne University Press |
| Website | www |
Meanjin is an Australian literary journal. The name - pronounced Mee-AN-jin - is derived from an Aboriginal word for the land where the city Brisbane is located.
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.
Content
Meanjin publishes
- poetry
- fiction
- graphic novels
- reflective and scholarly essays
- memoirs
- commentary
- review essays
- interviews
Editors
- 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
- 1998 to 2002: Stephanie Holt
- 2002 to 2008 Ian Britain
- 2008 to 2011 Sophie Cunningham
- 2011 to 2012 Sally Heath
- 2013 (present) Zora Sanders
Fiction Editors
- Current: Sally Heath
Poetry Editors
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 to 2000: Coral Hull
- 1998: Brian Henry
- 2000 to 2005: Peter Minter
- 2005 to present: Judith Beveridge
Current Editorial Details
Address: 187 Grattan Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia.
Notes
- ^ "Australian Magazines of the Twentieth Century". Austlit. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ Australian Poets and Their Works, by William Wilde. Oxford University Press, 1996
References
- 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.