New literary journal set to enrich Australia’s cultural landscape

The new journal is driven by Writers SA with the support of the state’s three universities and Arts South Australia.
Literary journal. A freshly sharpened pencil sits amid pencils shavings and a pencil sharpener on a blank page, suggesting the start of a new creative writing project.

A new Australian literary journal will soon join the likes of Overland, Meanjin, Westerly and Griffith Review, further enriching the national cultural landscape and providing new publishing opportunities for Australian writers.

The as-yet-unnamed journal is a new initiative from Writers SA, South Australia’s leading organisation for literature, in partnership with the state’s three universities, Flinders University, Uni SA and University of Adelaide.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts