Literary journals

The literature board aims to get Australian literature written and read, and to open up opportunities for our writers to earn from their creative work. And to keep the avenues of debate, discussion, analysis and criticism open.

For all these reasons we provide funding to the nation’s key literary and critical journals.

Each journal focuses on a particular perspective within the national and international cultural debate. Sometimes their views are markedly different. Sometimes they coincide. Always they stimulate thought and create new perspectives for the reader. Most of the journals also showcase the creative work of rising literary talent. From these journals will come future literary stars.

Here - in alphabetical order - are those journals we regularly fund. We also support the monthly Australian Literary Review supplement in The Australian newspaper. Read them and widen your perspective.

Australian Book Review, the leading independent Australian literary review
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/

Australian Literary Review - The Australian's monthly literary supplement
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/thearts/alr/

HEAT, Australia's international literary magazine
http://www.giramondopublishing.com/heat/

HECATE, interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation
http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/Home/home.htm

ISLAND, a magazine of excellence and variety
http://www.islandmag.com

MEANJIN, Australia's leading literary magazine
http://www.meanjin.unimelb.edu.au

OVERLAND, the most radical of Australia's long-standing literary/cultural magazines
http://www.overlandexpress.org

QUADRANT, Australia's independent review of literature and ideas
http://www.quadrant.org.au

SOUTHERLY, Australia's oldest literary magazine.
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/southerly/

VOICEWORKS, exciting new writing by young Australian writers
http://www.expressmedia.org.au/voiceworks.php