Magazines and journals have always been a significant outlet for publishing Australian literature. The general cultural journals of the 19th and early 20th centuries were followed by more aggressively literary and nationalist publications in the 1920s and 1930s. The 1970s saw a revival of little magazines of a self-consciously experimental kind. The post-war period has also produced a range of major literary journals like Meanjin.
19th and Early 20th Centuries
- Melbourne Review
- Published by George Robertson & Company (1879-1885)
SCHOLARS' AustLit P 052
V. 1-10 ; 1876-1885 - The Lone Hand: the national Australian monthly.
- SCHOLARS' AustLit P 052 P180
V. 1-2, 3(14-15, 17), 4, 5(25-27, 29), 6(33-36), 7(37, 39-42), 8(43, 46-48), 9, 10(55-56) ; 1907-1911
A full set is held on microfilm in the Microform Collection.
SCHOLARS' Microform MP109
1907 (May-Dec), 1908-1920, 1921(Jan-Feb)
Magazines of the 1920s and 1930s
- Vision: a literary quarterly.
- Edited by Frank C. Johnson, Jack Lindsay & Kenneth Slessor. Only one volume was published
SCHOLARS' AustLit P 825.5 P9 V. 1 ; 1923/24. - The Australian mercury : national literary magazine
- Edited by P.R. ("Inky") Stephensen. Only one volume was published.
SCHOLARS' AustLit P 825.5 P21
V. 1 ; 1935 - Jindyworobak anthology
- Edited by Rex Ingamells.
SCHOLARS' Austlit P 825.51308 P3
1938-1953 - Western writing
- The monthly bulletin of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (W.A. Section).
Only two issues were published.
SCHOLARS' Austlit P 052 P55
No. 1-2 ; Dec. 1939-Feb. 1940
Experimental magazines of the 1970s
- Ear in a wheatfield
- Edited by Kris Hemensley.
SCHOLARS' Austlit P 825.5 P3
New series v. 5-19; 1974. - Your friendly fascist
- Editors: Rae Desmond Jones and John Edwards
SCHOLARS' AustLit P 825.51 P9
No. 9-12 ; [1973]-1974 - Dharma
- Published in Adelaide.
SCHOLARS' AustLit P 825.51 P10
V. 1, 3-12, [13], 14-15 ; 1971-1975/76 - Contempa
- SCHOLARS' AustLit P 825.51 P132
V. 1-10 ; 1972. New series, V. 1-5 ; 1975
Meanjin
- Meanjin, known at different times as Meanjin Papers and Meanjin Quarterly, is one of Australia's first interdisciplinary journals and encompasses a wide range of literary and cultural material. The title Meanjin comes from the Aboriginal words migan (spike) and chagun (earth, land) which are used to describe the area now known as Brisbane, where the journal originated. Its editor, C. B. Christesen, moved the journal to the University of Melbourne in 1945 where he continued to edit it until 1974. Meanjin is still in publication. The Scholars' Centre houses the journal up to 1995, with more recent issues available in the main Humanities and Social Sciences collection in the Reid Library.
- SCHOLARS' AustLit P 825.5 P5A
V. 1(6-8), 2, 3(1-3), 4(1-3), 5-7, 8(1, 3), 9(2-4), 10-54 ; 1940-1995
