Southerly
Southerly 80.1
Current Issue
Launched in 1939, Southerly is Australia’s oldest continuous literary journal. Dedicated to publishing new literature of the highest standard, Southerly provides a link between the academy and the garret.
Previous Issues
A collection of pandemic-adjacent writing, featuring new work by Claire Aman, Chris Andrews, Chris Arnold, Stuart Barnes, Vanessa Berry, Pam Brown, Pascalle Burton, Anne Casey, Julie Chevalier, Eileen Chong, Matthew Clarke, Josie/Jocelyn Deane, Shastra Deo, Lucy Dougan, Dave Drayton, Johanna Ellersdorfer, Blake Falcongreen, Michael Farrell, Liam Ferney, Toby Fitch, Angela
Southerly 79.3: The Way We Live Now
The island continent has created an archipelago of incarceration in its surrounding seas. This issue is devoted entirely to the work of past and present refugees. PRINT EDITION For the digital edition, click here.
Southerly 79.2: Writing Through Fences – Archipelago of Letters
A celebration of our 80th anniversary and salute the writers we have published. Contributors recall the significance of works dating from as many as 50 and 60 years ago.
Southerly 79.1: 80!
Violence provides a readymade drama, an impetus for action, shock or transformation, but literature is also a site of violence in the recording, masking, performance and objectification of violence.
Southerly 78.3: Violence
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News
Announcing Southerly 80.1: First, The Future
We’re delighted to announce Southerly 80.1, ‘First, The Future’, co-edited by guest co-editor K.A.Ren Wyld and new Southerly editor
Announcing Southerly 79.3: The Way We Live Now
We’re delighted to announce Southerly 79.3, The Way We Live Now, a special issue edited by Melissa Hardie and Kate
Southerly is out of lockdown!
After suspending publication for all of 2020 and most of 2021, we are delighted to announce that Southerly is in
The Way We Live Now: Call for Papers 2021
An online issue edited by Melissa Hardie and Kate Lilley In this first fully online issue in Southerly’s 80-year history
Blog
To each author, a mimetic AI model
Jenny Hedley Imagine a future where writers control their own small language models (SLMs) trained on select high-quality data including
Down with copyright-infringing LLMs—long live the small language model
Jenny Hedley At my final PhD milestone conference, one of my writer friends whispered conspiratorially about how ‘we all hate
Barribugu mirana yiyura (The future is First Peoples)
Anissa Jones Guwiyady’u gulbanga Gayan gayan Colin Gale, Dharug warunggad, ngayiridyi Native Title. (I’d like to dedicate this to Uncle
Muttersprache
I scan the textbook looking for any flickers of familiarity, of words I might have seen before or words that