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Celebrate 85 years of Meanjin.

Issue 84.3 is out on 16 September and the final 85th Anniversary edition is out on 1 December.
There is an FAQ page up on the website to answer some of the questions being asked about subscriber refunds, which we will process expeditiously. This page will be updated with new developments.

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Frequently Asked Questions
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) announced on 4 September 2025 that Meanjin will cease publication after its final edition in December 2025. For questions related to the impact of this announc…
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September 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Thank you for the outpouring of support over the past few days, and for the memories being shared.

The complete Meanjin archive will be put online and made available for free from February 2026. In the meantime, current print and digital subscribers continue to have full access to it. (1 of 2)
September 8, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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A new Meanjin has arrived on my desk at the exact historical conjuncture most needed (aka always, aka now) @meanjin.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Meanjin 84.2 Winter 2025 is out today!

Read, subscribe and support Australia's finest writers:

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84.2 Winter 2025
Published 18 June 2025 BUY | SUBSCRIBE   What is a revolution? What are the sounds of the commons, the crickets, the carpark, the quails and the creek? Who funds culture wars, and whose intere…
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June 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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"In Elon, incel or incel-adjacent members of the manosphere who live lonely lives without prospects finally get to imagine that they have political leaders: powerful people they can admire and aspire to be."

Big Incel Energy in @meanjin.bsky.social

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Big Incel Energy
Writing a piece on the energy in the Trump administration is like trying to write fiction in the apocalypse: you can’t create anything more insane than the real world. Every time I write about some…
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June 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Excited to announce another essay in @meanjin.bsky.social , and this time I’m right up the front.

People across the spectrum get worked up about “woke”. On the Right, they’ve invented an inchoate enemy that can serve any need. Centre & Left can deride it as trivial or corrosive. #Meanjin
June 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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I’ve got a long essay on AI slop and fascism and the rest in the new @meanjin.bsky.social

Wrote it back in Jan but the core stupidity of this grifting industry has not changed. Check it out!

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🌹 Beautiful Cabin Crew, Scarlett Johansson 💋💋: Post-slop: four prompts and responses
These people don’t know what art is, so they will never truly be able to kill it. Not in the way they think, anyway.
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/🌹-beautiful-cabin-crew-scarlett-johansson-💋💋-post-slop-four-prompts-and-responses/
June 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
We are launching Winter 2025 on 25 June!

At Readings Carlton, with Claire G. Coleman, Sophie Finlay, Thirangie Jayatilake, and a special conversation with Ouyang Yu and Cher Tan.

This one is not to miss.
Meanjin launch: Winter 2025
Join us and writers, readers, and poets to launch Meanjin 84.2. Meanjin launches start manifesto-style in the Readings laneway, before heading inside. Wear your favourite coat and prepare to be moved...
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June 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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What do you like? What don't you like? What would you like to see more of?

Complete our survey to let us know how we can keep doing what we do best, and you could win $200 worth of books from our fine colleagues at MUP!

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Hello, dear Meanjin reader! It’s that time of year again for us to get in touch with our readers to find out how we’re doing. What do you like? What don’t you like? What would you…
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May 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Timely weekend reading from our latest edition, Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025—

“It fell to the current Australian Parliament to consider new laws to meet new problems, even while the world was changing around us…”

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The Gambling Evil
There is always an appetite. It is now the gambling corporations that seek to mould everyone in their own image. They might yet be reined in.
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May 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
New reviews on the Meanjin Daily!

First, @dionkagan.bsky.social reviews Time Together by Luke Horton @lukehorton.bsky.social / @scribepub.bsky.social.

'Holidays are rarely an escape from trouble and relational tension, but more often magnify them.'

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The Big Chill in Mornington
When people break from their everyday routines, something unresolved or unwanted often emerges.
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April 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
We are launching on Wurundjeri country on 26 March!

FEAT. @rachelwithers.bsky.social, Suma Narayan, @lucysussex.bsky.social, @jessielilley.bsky.social and Raeden Richardson!

Book at Readings (free!) here — www.readings.com.au/events/meanj...
March 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
OUT NOW!

Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025!

Energy and life and the body. Disappointment and passion and pride. The inexorable labour of working toward the just.

Subscribe now at meanjin.com.au, and don't miss our launch events!

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March 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Cover reveal!

The work of desire, the work of identity, the work of standing still. The work of giving life, the work of telling truth, the work of making a home.

This season, Meanjin’s writers are calling us to account.

Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025 is out on 19 March.

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March 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Tom Doig is the winner of the 2024 Hilary McPhee Award for his essay ‘Ten years on from Hazelwood: last decade’s second-worst disaster’, published in Meanjin 83.1 Autumn 2024.

Read the full statement at the link below.

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Congrats, Tom Doig! 2024 Hilary McPhee Award winner
Tom Doig is the winner of the 2024 Hilary McPhee Award for his essay ‘Ten years on from Hazelwood: last decade’s second-worst disaster’, published in Meanjin 83.1 Autumn 2024. ‘It’s a great honour …
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February 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
What a year for Australian literature!

In the latest for Meanjin Daily, a selection of Meanjin writers shared their favourite books of 2024.

Read on — meanjin.com.au/latest/best-...
Best of Australian reading in 2024
Meanjin writers share their favourite books of 2024.
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February 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Welcome aboard, @meanjin.bsky.social!
Hello! We’ve officially migrated. In case you’re unfamiliar, you can subscribe to Meanjin—Australia’s literary journal of record—for as little as $5 a month here! meanjin.com.au/subscribe/

Watch this space for more updates—we’ve got a big year planned.
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Hello, dear Reader, and welcome, Subscriber! Embrace Australia’s finest writers: subscribe to Meanjin.   Subscribe to Meanjin Quarterly in print: Our print subscription options include: Multi-…
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February 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Hello! We’ve officially migrated. In case you’re unfamiliar, you can subscribe to Meanjin—Australia’s literary journal of record—for as little as $5 a month here! meanjin.com.au/subscribe/

Watch this space for more updates—we’ve got a big year planned.
Subscribe
Hello, dear Reader, and welcome, Subscriber! Embrace Australia’s finest writers: subscribe to Meanjin.   Subscribe to Meanjin Quarterly in print: Our print subscription options include: Multi-…
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February 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM