Magazines and Journals

ISBN: ABR
Title: ABR
Author: AUGUST 2020
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

September 2020, no. 424

Welcome to the September issue of ABR! Our cover story, written by well-known musician and musicologist Peter Tregear, concerns the plight of classical music in the age of Covid-19. Music – like theatre and opera and film – has been devastated (silenced almost) by new restrictions and social isolation. When the lockdown is over, what will be retrievable, and will the repertoire be fundamentally reshaped? Peter Rose, in a diary piece, worries about the new era of conformism and prohibition and asks, ‘What personal freedoms are being sacrificed along the way?’ Megan Clement is underwhelmed by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s new book on women and leadership. We publish Kate Middleton’s poignant essay ‘The Dolorimeter’, runner-up in the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize. And Don Anderson, Morag Fraser, and James Bradley review new novels by Kate Grenville, Amanda Lohrey, and David Mitchell, respectively.

Imprint: MAGAZINES
RRP: $12.95

ISBN: 9772204735002
Title: ARCHER #14 - The Growing UP Issue
Author: #14
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

ARCHER MAGAZINE #14 - the GROWING UP issue

Welcome to Archer Magazine: the GROWING UP issue.

"Growing up isn’t just about popping pimples and trying new things. Growing up is about finding a better world, confronting the realities of life and realising the people in power are incompetent. Growing up is about disappointment, guilt, community, love, and recognising privilege and systematic oppression. Growing up is about creating your space." - Lucy Watson, editor-in-chief

This special edition of Archer Magazine (our biggest yet) features a series of articles on growing and discovering, to help us all find our way, regardless of our age.

This issue includes a BONUS fold-out poster by the genius @Pink_Bits!
Instagram: @pink_bits

Imprint: ARCHER
RRP: $16.95

ISBN: 9772652477509
Title: ARENA - New Format #3
Author: NO 3
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

After the Deluge: essays on defence, democracy, COVID, capitalism, the arts, resilience, and the Murray-Darling

Imprint: ARENA
RRP: $20.00

ISBN: 9781922212535
Title: GRIFFITH REVIEW 70 : Generosities of Spirit
Author: HAY ASHLEY [ED]
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Is empathy, like water, in increasingly short supply?

Now more than ever we need empathy, and Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit explores and celebrates generosities and kindnesses, those uplifting and memorable experiences that illuminate our lives. Featuring inspiring despatches from the frontlines of generosity - stories that delve into the transformative power of the positive in our everyday world - this edition also presents the winners of the Novella Project VIII, alongside exciting new short fiction and non-fiction, and a stunning collection of new Australian poetry.

As well as offering perfect holiday reading, Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit introduces The Elemental Summer, a timely new print and online series that will follow the climate emergency through the 2020-2021 summer, whatever it brings.

Contributors include Claire G Coleman, Thomas Mayor, Kristina Olsson, Adam Thompson, Kate Veitch, Mikele Prestia, Joelle Gergis, Rhianna Boyle, Allanah Hunt, Linda Neil and more. This edition is published with the support of the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund and McLean Foundation.

Imprint: Griffith Review
RRP: $27.99

ISBN: 9780648271970
Title: ISLAND MAGAZINE #159
Author: ISSUE 159
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

We are always excited when we publish Island, but perhaps even more so with this next issue. After being unsuccessful in achieving a renewal of multi-year grant funding from Arts Tasmania, it seemed unlikely that the magazine would survive 2019, let alone 2020. But due to an anonymous private benefactor, a matched once-only government grant and some individual donors, we were able to start work on the 2020 publishing schedule (albeit reduced to two issues instead of the normal four). The global pandemic has certainly added some extra challenges, but here we are, about to publish issue 159, the first of our two 2020 issues!

We cannot express how grateful we are to everyone who has made this possible – our funding, design and advertising partners, our donors, our contributors and our readers.

This is the first issue put together by our refreshed editorial team of Anna Spargo-Ryan (nonfiction), Ben Walter (fiction), Lisa Gorton (poetry) and Judith Abell (art features). We are thrilled to have them on board. They bring such enthusiasm, energy and commitment to their task, and have delivered selections that are richly diverse and worthy.

Here you’ll find poems about fires, bodies, art and violence – including some that recall the summer’s fires and others that resonate with the confinement of these isolated days. You’ll also find thoughtful essays about the arts in this time of crisis, but also about ideas as important now as ever, such as togetherness, curiosity, love and the deep solace to be found in nature. There’s fresh, funny, clever and shocking fiction here that will take you on a dizzying ride through far-flung hotel rooms (how distant they seem right now!), the comic drama of suburban renovations, the strange world of the workplace and the bizarre one of reality TV crime drama, the mysteries of childhood, and one of the darkest great-aunts you’ll ever meet. As always, our art features enrich the issue, and this time they coalesce around various sites and forms of tragedy and extinction – from Julie Gough’s Tense Past, to Lucienne Rickard’s Extinction Studies and Selena de Carvalho’s Beware of Imposters (the secret life of flowers) – all of them urging us to attend to what has been lost and what can yet be lost.

We hope that these voices will inspire, entertain and comfort you in our uncertain and vulnerable times.

Imprint: MAGAZINES
RRP: $16.50

ISBN: 9780648271987
Title: ISLAND MAGAZINE #160
Author: ISSUE 160
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

We hope you’ll enjoy exploring this bumper issue, which includes writing from the University of Wollongong’s ‘Blue Ecologies’ creative writing and research group along with other related works chosen by guest editor Luke Johnson and selections by Island’s editorial team. A long-planned collaboration between Island and Australian Plays has yielded three co-commissioned ‘playlets’ – tiny jewels on our watery theme. We also bring you the Emerging Tasmanian Aboriginal Writers Award (organised by TasWriters), the winner of the 2020 Olga Masters Short Story Prize (organised by SouthEast Arts) and another inspiring ‘literacy journey’ from Connect42. This Island is not an island.


Imprint: MAGAZINES
RRP: $16.50

ISBN: 9780522876680
Title: MEANJIN Vol 79 No 2 - Winter 2020
Author: GREEN JONATHAN [ED]
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

Author and essayist Lucia Osborne-Crowley examines the cost of intimacy for women in a world where men demand exclusive access to the closeness of their female partners, often without returning the emotional labour involved. Noongar author Claire G. Coleman writes on the long shadow of the Stolen Generations- 'Dad discovered he was Noongar when he was 63, when I was 30, when his Uncle Bob died...' Poet Toby Fitch details Australian animal and bird extinction from 1788 to the present. Plus- Lucy Treloar, Guy Rundle, Rebecca Slater, Elizabeth Flux, Jennifer Mills, Michael Cathcart, Maria Takolander, and Jack Hibberd.

Imprint: MEANJIN
RRP: $24.99

ISBN: 9780522876703
Title: MEANJIN Vol 79 No 3
Author: GREEN JONATHAN [ED]
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

In September Meanjin, a brace of fine writing in the time of Covid 19.

From Jack Latimore, 'Through a Mask, Breathing'- an expansive, lyrical essay that couples a local response to the Black Lives Matter movement to ideas around gentrification, St Kilda, Sidney Nolan and the life and music of Archie Roach, all of it set against the quite menace of the pandemic. In other pieces drawn from our Covid moment, Kate Grenville charts the troubled progress and unexpected insights of days under lockdown, Fiona Wright finds space and rare pleasures as the world closes in, Krissy Kneen takes on the sudden obsession with 'iso-weight', Justin Clemens searches for hope in the world of verse, Desmond Manderson and Lorenzo Veracini consider viruses, colonialism and other metaphors, and there's short fiction from Anson Cameron, 'The Miserable Creep of Covid'.
Plus fresh short fiction, essays, memoir and poetry.

Imprint: MEANJIN
RRP: $24.99

ISBN: 9771832342002
Title: MONTHLY MAGAZINE
Author: DEC 2020 - JAN 2021
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

December 2020 – January 2021

And now for something completely indifferent
By George Megalogenis

Picking losers
By James Boyce

In times like these, what would Oodgeroo do?
By Alexis Wright

Inner space
By Rebecca Giggs

Which jobs and what growth?
By Richard Denniss

Pale blue dot
By Ceridwen Dovey

The glass curtain
By Anna Goldsworthy

Streeton’s shriek
By Tim Bonyhady

Blue is the colour
By Quentin Sprague

Dividing the Tasman: ‘Empire and the Making of Native Title’
By Alan Atkinson

Shirley Hazzard’s wider world
By Geordie Williamson

Citizen plain: ‘Mank’
By Shane Danielsen

Ready steady gone
By Anwen Crawford


Imprint: Black Inc.
RRP: $12.95

ISBN: 9780648579731
Title: OVERLAND JOURNAL - ISSUE 238
Author: AUTUMN 2020
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE


Imprint: OVERLAND
RRP: $19.95

ISBN: VINE04
Title: VINE AND BUBBLE : Issue 4
Author: ISSUE 4
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Finally, Issue No. 4 of VINE & BUBBLE Magazine is available! It may be late, but perfectly timed with some of the bigger questions for the industry around its future, in these days of COVID-19, and the need to adapt quickly to a new social rhythm.

This issue we touch on how champagne has always been at the fore of major changes in social movements, in my interview with the modish artist and writer, Belinda Aucott, as well as Gert Crum’s poignant article ‘A Change in the Wind’. They are joined by our best ever line-up of contributors with this thoughtful content:

* What’s in a Glass? (feature on champagne glassware) – By Sara Underdown
*Franck Bonville – By Sara Underdown
*Coteaux Champenois – By Bhatia Dheeraj
*Philippe Glavier – By Sara Underdown
*What Really is Prestige Champagne? – By Matt Lamb
*Minerality. What does in Mean? – By Matthew Lane
*Champagne Chameleon: Chardonnay – By Leanne Altmann
*Life-Changing Champagnes with Australia’s Winemakers
*Black Diamonds and Liquid Gold – By Amanda Reboul
*Italian Food and Champagne – By Kara Maisano

Read all 84 pages of original content, written by leading sommeliers, wine writers, industry representatives and educators with expert knowledge of champagne.

Imprint: VINE AND BUBBLE
RRP: $25.00

ISBN: 710535058734
Title: WOMANKIND #23 - England
Author: #23
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

#023: England

“As soon as I saw the house, I knew my life would be changed forever,” she says. The country farmhouse in England is bought and a new path is forged. This is an example of an unexpected find which spins life on a new axis.

Imprint: WOMANKIND MAGAZINE
RRP: $14.95