australian litjournals and magazines

altitude
Part of the work of the Australian Public Intellectual Network, proceeding from the University of Adelaide. Multidisciplinary pieces including essays, non-fiction and reviews.

arena - magazine and journal
Left political, social and cultural commentary.

australia and pacific writers' network (APWN)
Links to the online anthology of this network, available in several languages.

australian book review
The premier reviewing source for Australian publications, be they fiction, nonfiction or poetry. Hosts a poetry prize and an annual reviewing competition.

australian humanities review
Academic online journal published by Latrobe University.

cordite
In its eighth year online, the poetry magazine founded by Peter Minter and Adrian Wiggins in 1997. Words are bullets.

currajah
Walleah Press, the home of 'famous reporter', has a blog for news, notes and items of interest.

dotlit
The Online Journal of Creative Writing from Queensland University of Technology.

eureka street
A Magazine of Public Affairs, the Arts and Theology

famous reporter
As mentioned previously - but the journal is worth a link of its own. Plenty of online articles and reviews, as well as a hard copy version.

going down swinging
Since 1980, an annual literary anthology which includes a CD.

heat
'Written by many hands, HEAT is a book which contains many possible books.' An Australian international literary journal.

hecate's australian women's book review
Some online issues of the important women's literature review.

island
From Tasmania. Truly 'a magazine of excellence and variety', with a great website to boot.

JASAL
An open access journal, presenting recent research of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

masthead
Literary e-zine published by Alison Croggon of Melbourne, writer and theatre critic.

meanjin
One of the prime  Australian literary journals, published at the University of Melbourne since 1945.

new ceres
Web ezine - "An exciting and dangerous place. Its water is green and its inhabitants are sophisticates."

overland
Founded in 1954 by Stephen Murray-Smith, another Melburnian literary journal with aspirations to radicalism.

pataphysics
All the way from St. Kilda, Victoria. Making Alfred Jarry proud.

quadrant
Founding editor James McAuley was one of Australia's leading poets - this journal has cast itself as increasingly right wing in recent times following a change of editor. Whatever that means.

SCAN
A journal of media arts culture from Macquarie University.

sleepy brain magazine
'A mainline exercise in psychogeography, exploring the affective behaviour of urban environs.'

southerly
Apparently Southerly is Australia's oldest literary magazine.

state of the arts
An online bulletin of Arts events and reviews, around the country.

thylazine
A guide to contents of the magazine, Thylazine, published in the Northern Territory by Dr. Coral Hull.