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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.

friends and stimulating company

dervala.net
The writing and insights of Dervala Hanley, denizen of the US, Irish expatriate and natural columnist ( it's true, it's blogging straight up, ready to publish anywhere. As is.)

erebus + terror (je suis saves)
Who is that guy?

jewishy irishy
The blog of poet Laurel Snyder, of Atlanta.

the joy of six...
The blog of Joy Desjardins, parent of Jory and member of the Third Age blogging community.

pause...jory's thoughts while sitting still
The trials, tribulations and sound philosophy of a professional writer with a soul and a lovely family that always write in when she's composed something particularly fine.

rebecca's pocket
Hardly a friend, more of an essential reference point. The chronicler of the blogosphere and author of the guide.

the rest is noise
The blog of NYT music critic Alex Ross.

scribble scribble scribble
Photography, poetry, dry wit and learning from Fran Monaghan of Melbourne, Australia.

australian blogs

aftergrogblog
Strictly for the literary allusions, of course.

back pages
The highly regarded blog of New South Wales academic Dr. Christopher Sheil. One of the earliest blogs to achieve recognition in the mainstream press in Australia.

barker's byte
Based at The Age ( Melbourne newspaper), and written by Garry Barker, the IT editor.

barista
The blog of documentary film maker and Screen Hub editor, David Tiley.

blogocracy
Tim Dunlop, he of The Road To Surfdom, shows Murdoch's minions how it's done.

boynton
Very established Australian blogger with an eye for the best stuff.

father bob
Bob Maguire of the Open Family Foundation and South Melbourne parish has a blog as well as a TV show with John Safran! Does the man ever sleep? Check It Out.

firstperson thirdcat
see also Australian Writers Online... writer Tracy Crisp's personal blog.

jabberwocky
Ariel is a freelance writer with a great blog. With a terrific name. Just like the name of this blog...

leftwrites
Jeff Sparrow, erstwhile radical bookseller and writer, blogs on politics and writing.

lost in reverie
Janine is blogging on family, music, her art and writing, film, books and anything else that takes her fancy.

marrickvillia
A Marrickville blog by academic Meredith Jones, on her neck of the woods, culture and life.

pavlov's cat
Very popular blog with links to all things cultural and political.

sleepy brain: biomorphic horror
#4 of Sleepy Brain, from Simon Sellars and others. Includes a blog and earlier material.

sorrow at sills bend
A review of the statuary of Melbourne, among other things. Topical and humorous.

strange fruit
Fifi is a painter, a swimmer, and a dreamer, with a blue velvet dress to die for.

the view from elsewhere
The blog of El, writer, lecturer and researcher currently residing in Alice Springs.

literature - journals

A S P E N: the multimedia journal in a box
Web version of the '60s multimedia magazine - ' a vastly pleasurable folly'.

black warrior review
Comes recommended.

geist
Canadian magazine and journal of ideas and culture since 1990.

granta
Founded in 1889, rescued from financial woes in 1979, going from strength to strength ever since - publishes new writing, quarterly.

the graphic novel review
Another journal I want to spend more time with...

jacket
God bless John Tranter - a genuinely free Internet literary journal.

land-grant college review (archive)
Have a look at the homepage after you've sampled these.

london review of books online
Probably not a journal really...

maisonneuve
Probably deserves its own Typelist - sometimes described as 'Vanity Fair without the vanity'.

library stuff

arrow discovery Search portal for the combined e-repositories of Australian universities, sponsored by the National Library of Australia.

clusty the clustering engine
Not a Thomas website, by the way, but a Federated Search Engine developed by Vivisimo which aggregates the results of five search engines. Search for links to your blog HERE.

free range librarian
The blog of US librarian Karen G. Schneider, director of the Librarians' Index to the Internet (www.lii.org)

if:book blog
From the Annenberg Center for Communication at USC, and the recommendation of David Tiley at Barista, an excellent blog on all kinds of great stuff. Links to other blogs supported by the Institute for the Future of the Book are provided.

librariesinteract.info
An Australian library group blog, with links to all the Australian library blogs they can find. Let them know about yours!

LITA Blog
Official blog of the American Library Association.

NLA Digital Collections
From the National Library of Australia, the entry point to their digitised collection of significant cultural materials. Includes the Curator's monthly choice.

the researching librarian
Maintained by Beth Ashmore, a site evaluating links to free databases with a focus on library research literature.

templatedata
A blog on Web 2.0 and web services and their implications for web designers. From the Web Design team at the University of Sydney.

digital storytelling, new media and film

Film

ACMI Collection
Link to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image's lending collection housed at Federation Square, Melbourne

afi research collection
The research library of the Australian Film Institute, currently housed at RMIT University.

Early Modern Literary Studies
Links to the contents of a journal on adaptations to Shakespeare in film.

masters of cinema.org
An international website founded in 2001 by film graduates and writers.

senses of cinema
'An online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema.' From Melbourne, Australia. Site includes a critical database of great directors and Top Ten Films lists.

Digital Storytelling and New Media

Capture Wales
Stories from the BBC Digital Storytelling workshops in Wales. The first international Digital Storytelling Conference was hosted by this program in 2003.

center for digital storytelling
One of the earliest and most active homes to the digital storytelling movement in the US, at Berkeley, run by Joe Lambert.

creativity/machine
The personal research blog of QUT academic Jean Burgess.

cross-media entertainment
The blog of Christy Dena, universe creator, transmodiologist, academic, consultant and source of much interesting news about text arts across all platforms known to man.

grand text auto

Group blog on 'machine narrative, games, poetry and art.'

new media lab
The Canadian Film Centre's New Media lab was founded in 1997 and ran the Great Canadian Story Engine in 2000. Formerly known as Habitat.

propagating media A collaborative research blog by John Hartley, Jean Burgess, John Banks and Lucy Montgomery, from the ARC.

i-Anya
The blog of Sydney academic Angela Thomas.

the book is dead
Blog on the book of the same name, by media lecturer from Macquarie University, Sherman Young.

wrt: writer response theory
A blogging collective dedicated to the discussion and exploration of 'digital character art', with a focus on active and interactive works where text is the input/response mode.

literature links

asia and pacific writers' network
A writers and organisations' network initiated by Australian PEN Centre, in partnership with Asialink.

australian crime fiction database
Bibliographies, reviews and a list of crime writers' websites.

center for book culture.org
Web home of the Dalkey Archive Press, the Review of Contemporary Fiction and the free online journal CONTEXT.

creative nonfiction
QUE?? Have a look then.

crossinary - Free Crossword Dictionary Software
Don't ask where I found this or what I want to use it for.

guardian unlimited books
Top-shelf journalism in the well organised online archive of the Guardian newspaper.

guernica / a magazine of art & politics
Via Bud Parr of Chekhov's Mistress.

indianwriting
The blog of Uma, a Mumbai resident and freelance journalist.

the literary encyclopedia
A low-priced subscription provides access to this high quality online literature resource compiled by over 1350 academics from around the world.

kevin smokler
"where there's smoke - put it between your teeth and blow." Smokler is the author of - Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times.

newpages
Alternatives in print & media portal.

the paris review - interviews
The DNA of Literature, from the 50s onwards.

poets & writers magazine
New York publication with some online content.

the writing coach
Jacqui Lofthouse's excellent coaching blog includes her guide to  producing 30,000 words in 30 days.

australian literature blogs

ABR blog
The infrequently updated blog of Australian Book Review, a publication which is pretty much an essential guide to the past and present state of Australian writing (see Journals and e-zines, below).

australian literature diary
The renamed book blog of Kerryn Goldsworthy, Australian academic, literary critic and writer.

ampersand duck
The Canberran letterpress printer and art school lecturer with a witty nom de plume.

bibliodyssey
Books, illustrations, book art, science, history and loads of great links.

blusterhead
An eclectic literary resource run by Chris Mansell, NSW poet and writing teacher.

the bookgrocer
A bookshop blog with a difference, warmly recommended by someone who should know.

cordite newsblog
The blog of online poetry journal Cordite.

the deletions
Pam Brown, poet, co-editor of Jacket poetry magazine, and librarian, blogs here.

the empire of larks
Chris Mansell's poetry blog.

hi spirits
The blog of Andrew Burke of WA, poet.

intersecting lines
Tim's earlier blog, mainly about literature. Linked to by Maud Newton. (Why did he stop?)

latitudes
Jill Jones gets lost in translation - the poems will end up here. Translations from Chinese and French.

literary minded
The blog of freelance writer Angela Meyer. Reviews galore.

luca antara
Now published as a book - the blog of Martin Edmond, writer and ex-London cabbie.

matilda
Perry has an eye on where we have come from and where we might be heading.

parachute of a playwright
Ben Ellis writes about his work for theatre, politics, literature and culture.

poetry and ideas
This blog is hosted by the Collected Works bookshop in Melbourne and authored by its owner, poet Kris Hemensley.

read alert
The blog of the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria.

reading victoria
This page contains links to several blogs and reading programs of the State Library of Victoria. 

ruby street
Jill Jones takes poetry for a walk.

sarsaparilla
A downunder group litblog.

speakeasy
Blogging at the Australian Writer's Marketplace Online.

stack
Georgina Hibberd's transnational literature blog, in its next Wordpress incarnation. Enjoy.

sterne - claims that Jarry said, "Screw good taste". Among other things.

theatre notes
Independent theatre criticism by Alison Croggon of Melbourne.

the morning after: performing arts in Australia
A blog about theatre, dance and music in Australia by arts writer Chris Boyd.

undercover
Lit editor Susan Wyndham is blogging on reading, writing and publishing over at the Sydney Morning Herald.

yonder
Peter Minter has moved all his online doings here. Poetry and good things.

zest e-mag
The emag/blog of the Australian Poetry Centre.

UK and US literature blogs - a selection

United Kingdom

confessions of an author
Amanda Mann writes about writing as it is, right here, right now.

dogmatika
The blog of Suki Tomaselli - books, culture, stuff.

dovegreyreader
An active reviewer, festival organiser and booklover extraordinaire shares news of book events in Devon and elsewhere.

eve's alexandria
Popular newish UK group blog, with several specialists who are across most genres.

the writing coach
Jacqui Lofthouse's coaching and creativity blog.

United States

booksquare
Romance writer Jill blogs with style and grace.
Full of writing and publishing tips.

cahiers de corey
The blog of writer Joshua Corey whose interest in poetry was started when he read The Mouse's Tale in the annotated Alice at the age of 10.

chekhov's mistress
The blog of Bud Parr, creator of the Metaxucafe Litblog Network.

the elegant variation
The blog of blogger and writer Mark Sarvas, from Los Angeles.

fernham
The blog of Anne, New Jersey Woolf scholar and LBC member.

golden rule jones
Sam Jones blogs about literary events from a Chicago perspective.

identity theory
The whole website is worth a look - reviews AND a blog. Closely related to The Morning News, and supported by Robert Birnbaum.

the little professor
The blog of Miriam Burstein, academic, teacher and Victorian studies expert.

madinkbeard
The website and blog of librarian and writer Derik Badman.

maud newton
Maud Newton's blog is one of the oldest US litblogs and probably the most highly regarded, for her analysis and news on editing, writing and publishing.

the millions
The blog of C. Max Magee, a journalism student from Chicago.

moorishgirl
Laila Lalami is a writer and one of the earliest litbloggers. She was born in Morocco and has a fondness for 12th-century Andalusia.

the mumpsimus
Matt Cheney, writer and SF reviewer, blogs here.

the reading experience
Serious ideas and criticism to go, from ex-academic Dan Green.

the syntax of things
Jeff Bryant's blog has compelling categories like "madonna causes cancer" and " would you like fries with that". Along with more serious stuff of course.

tingle alley
The author of this blog styles herself CAAF and is writing a novel on a very fine red typewriter to keep herself pure for the Internet.

the valve - a literary organ
Collective blog of a bevy of US academics who teach literature and are interested in litblogging.

waggish
For serious, compelling posts of a serious length, you cannot go past this site. Great links too.

australian writers online

apple girl
A transnational blog by agent and upcoming author, Virginia Lloyd.

australian crime fiction database - Bibliographies and Reviews
A list of Australian crime writers' websites can be found here, along with other goodies.

australian writer's marketplace online
Launched in November 2006,  the Australian writer's bible has gone online thanks to the efforts of the Queensland Writers' Centre.

cheeseburger gothic
How to blog about your work without losing your soul, by John Birmingham.

eglantine's cake
Penni Russon writes for teens and is blogging while she produces the third volume in a trilogy.

firstperson thirdcat
see also Australian blogs... writer Tracy Crisp's personal blog.

hanner cymraes
Liz Corbett's blog - 'a writer hoping to be read too' .My Vermont neighbour - what she's not telling us is that her trilogy ms is in consideration for a Varuna fellowship. Go get 'em, neighbour.

the incredible tom
Short story writer Tom Cho's blog and website.

luca antara
Soon to be published as a regular book - the blog of Martin Edmond, writer and ex-London cabbie.

mandy ord
The blog of Melbourne graphic novelist Mandy Ord.

max barry: he writes things
Did You Know? Max Barry's website has a membership of over 2,000 readers.

justine larbalestier
Australian YA author with a wickedly good blogging voice; go see how it is done, people.

ocean without end
Kelly Gardiner writes children's fiction, maintains a website and blog for kids called Swashbuckler, and (phew!) also works in publishing.

sean condon
The official website of the bitter and unhappy writer responsible for...I'm having trouble keeping up with how many funniest books and when. Just take his word for it.

shaun tan
This is just here because it's magnificent.

sophie cunningham
Sophie Cunningham did her publishing apprenticeship at  Melbourne's famous McPhee Gribble starship in the '90s, and this is her 21st century website and blog.

thinkings of a lili
YA author and manager of the State Library's fab YA website, Inside a Dog - yes, Lili Wilkinson blogs here.

walking and falling
Jennifer Mills works from the Northern Territory at present - check out her published works under 'writing'.

australia - publishers and editors

Independents - Poetry, fiction, non-fiction

Brandl & Schlesinger

Giramondo Publishing
Also publisher of HEAT magazine.

John Leonard Press
Poetry editor John Leonard aims 'to show truly interesting work,well-edited and attractively produced to sell'.

Locus
The weblog and publicity arm of Aduki Press and Vignette Press.

Miegunyah Press

ReadAllOver
The weblog of Jo Case, Readings editor. 

Scribe Publications

Sleepers Publishing
Louise Swinn and Zoe Dattner publish an annual anthology of short fiction and poetry, The Sleepers' Almanac.

See also Louise's blog: I am excited about...

Soi 3 Books at papertiger media
Presenting Australian poets in well-designed editions, this boutique publishing company also distributes e-zines and CDs.

SPUNC

Text Publishing

Vulgar Press