Pursued by the Empire’s sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy. This is W H Chong’s story of a storied journal and its transformation.
Meanjin
A new editor for Meanjin, and ‘all is well’ at MUP
Yesterday’s announcement that newly-appointed Melbourne University Press associate editor Sally Heath will succeed Sophie Cunningham as editor of Meanjin has set the literary-world aflutter.
Sophie Cunningham: is writing evolving?
Is form following function? Are we evolving? Or, to the question I want to consider here: is writing evolving? And is there a danger of Australian writers losing their distinctive voice, asks writer and editor Sophie Cunningham?
Little mag David vs. uni Goliath
Former editor of literary journal Meanjin, Jim Davidson, made damning remarks about ownership of the magazine, its takeover by Melbourne University Press and interference by management, in a speech about the history of Meanjin — with all the management listening from the front row, reports W H Chong.
Meanjin editor breaks silence on departure, MUP
Departing Meanjin editor Sophie Cunningham has told Crikey she only met Melbourne University Press (MUP) chairman Alan Kohler once during her three year reign and that she was locked out of formal discussions about the publication’s future.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The National Broadband Network debate
Crikey readers have their say.
Writers can’t write for free forever
The rise of Australia’s literary journal blogs as intellectual spaces is a great thing. But with no money in blogging, can an effective long term model be found to sustain them? asks Jessica Au.
Guy Rundle: Windschuttle screams blue murder over Quadrant funding cut
Quadrant has had its Australia Council Grant cut by $15,000 and is screaming blue murder and about the fix being in, because every left wing magazine –- Overland, Meanjin(!), Australian Book Review (!!) — has seen its funding maintained or bumped up.
Quadrant blames political decision for funding cut
Conservative magazine Quadrant is accusing the Australia Council of a “patently political decision” in cutting its funding from $50,000 to $30,000, thus threatening its literary content. But was it politics that caused the cut?
Lethlean puts it to Stephen Downes
Stephen Downes’ essay in yesterday’s Crikey basically boiled down to “all restaurant reviewers except me are the puppets of public relations operatives and charismatic restaurateurs” writes John Lethlean.
Meanjin: Productivity Commission committing cultural sabotage
If you don’t care about the survival of independent publishing in Australia, perhaps the Commission’s recommendations won’t bother you. If you do, they should, writes Sophie Cunningham.
