{"id":3434,"date":"2026-02-11T05:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:18:42","slug":"a-cultural-icon-axed-australian-literary-journal-meanjin-finds-new-life-in-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/a-cultural-icon-axed-australian-literary-journal-meanjin-finds-new-life-in-queensland\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary journal Meanjin magazine finds new life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The literary journal Meanjin will return to the city it was born in that bears its Indigenous name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Queensland University of Technology announced on Wednesday it had acquired the 85-year-old journal, whose&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/sep\/04\/meanjin-close-melbourne-university-publishing\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">life was cut short by Melbourne University Press<\/a>&nbsp;in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">QUT\u2019s successful bid marked a full circle for Meanjin, which was founded in Brisbane\/Meanjin by Clem Christesen in 1940 before moving to Melbourne in 1945.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The QUT vice-chancellor, Prof Margaret Sheil, said the new ownership agreement committed to maintaining the journal\u2019s rigorous standards by safeguarding its editorial independence and the appointment of a dedicated editorial board.<\/p>\n<p>(Read more | Kelly Burke&#8217;s article at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/feb\/11\/meanjin-literary-journal-new-life-queensland-australia\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/feb\/11\/meanjin-literary-journal-new-life-queensland-australia<\/a> (<em>The Guardian<\/em>, 11th February 2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The literary journal Meanjin will return to the city it was born in that bears its Indigenous name. The Queensland University of Technology announced on Wednesday it had acquired the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[74,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journals","category-meanjin","entry entry-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}