Hollen Singleton
@hollenonline.bsky.social
a stapler seems quaint until that one day every 3 years where it is absolutely crucial you have one, fully loaded
September 15, 2025 at 5:15 AM
a stapler seems quaint until that one day every 3 years where it is absolutely crucial you have one, fully loaded
The first is a statement on MUP's closure of Meanjin, from me and many of my colleagues in Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne.
The second is from one of my talented students. 💙
The second is from one of my talented students. 💙
September 12, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The first is a statement on MUP's closure of Meanjin, from me and many of my colleagues in Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne.
The second is from one of my talented students. 💙
The second is from one of my talented students. 💙
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At the rally to save Meanjin this morning, looking at the expressions on people’s faces as we listened to π.ο. give a reading which was really more like an incantation, thinking not for the first time that no organisation which tries to put such experiences in monetary terms can be trusted with art.
September 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
At the rally to save Meanjin this morning, looking at the expressions on people’s faces as we listened to π.ο. give a reading which was really more like an incantation, thinking not for the first time that no organisation which tries to put such experiences in monetary terms can be trusted with art.
just not ready to say vale meanjin, when literally nothing has been tried
September 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
just not ready to say vale meanjin, when literally nothing has been tried
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Meanjin Journal is 85 years old; older than the Sydney Opera House. Closing it down is cultural vandalism of the highest order, roughly equivalent to demolishing the above mentioned opera house.
I am disgusted
@meanjin.bsky.social
I am disgusted
@meanjin.bsky.social
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Meanjin Journal is 85 years old; older than the Sydney Opera House. Closing it down is cultural vandalism of the highest order, roughly equivalent to demolishing the above mentioned opera house.
I am disgusted
@meanjin.bsky.social
I am disgusted
@meanjin.bsky.social
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Decision to close Meanjin criticised as act of ‘utter cultural vandalism’
Decision to close Meanjin criticised as act of ‘utter cultural vandalism’
Shutting long-running literary journal, which published emerging writers as well as the cream of Australia’s literary talent, described as ‘enormous loss’
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One of Australia’s longest running literary journals has been scrapped, in what has been described as an act of “utter cultural vandalism” on the part of the University of Melbourne.
After 85 years, Meanjin, run by the university’s subsidiary Melbourne University Publishing (MUP), will publish its last edition in December. Although the journal’s editor, Esther Anatolitis, worked her last day at Meanjin on Thursday, the spring and summer quarterly editions of the journal are already at the printers. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Decision to close Meanjin criticised as act of ‘utter cultural vandalism’
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One of the reasons I don’t buy the “financial decision” line from MUP is that I’m a Meanjin subscriber, someone (ostensibly) in a position to add a donation to my subscription, and I wasn’t informed about these apparent dire straits. Who cancels the whole thing before pulling the fund-raising lever?
September 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
One of the reasons I don’t buy the “financial decision” line from MUP is that I’m a Meanjin subscriber, someone (ostensibly) in a position to add a donation to my subscription, and I wasn’t informed about these apparent dire straits. Who cancels the whole thing before pulling the fund-raising lever?
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I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture
Opinion | Melbourne University Press says it shut down Meanjin for "purely financial reasons". Perhaps the university could have used some of its $273 million surplus to safeguard the seminal journal, @catrionamp.bsky.social writes.
Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up
www.crikey.com.au
September 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture
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Here's me in Guardian Australia on the total debacle with Meanjin.
www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating | Ben Walter
MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Here's me in Guardian Australia on the total debacle with Meanjin.
www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
Meanjin has a highly engaged subscriber base, here and overseas. It gets tonnes of subs every time it opens them (often and for free). It's works are on university reading lists. It's a signal achievement for a writer to appear in its pages. The value lost for the uni (and us) is huge.
Exclusive: Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, Meanjin, is being shut down today for "financial" reasons, Crikey can reveal.
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Meanjin has a highly engaged subscriber base, here and overseas. It gets tonnes of subs every time it opens them (often and for free). It's works are on university reading lists. It's a signal achievement for a writer to appear in its pages. The value lost for the uni (and us) is huge.
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