Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.
there are about 3 places in Oz you can write interesting, alternative, explorative work, that leans left. With Meanjin gone, there's about 2. This country is a cultural backwater that grows more stale and stagnant by the day.
melbourne oomfs 👁️🫦👁️
feeling proud to launch insatiable: notes on queer appetite this august at meat market. it brings together 50 of your favourite queer artists, photographers, sculptors, designers, writers and performers to examine how appetite and longing shape queerness