Literature, materiality, technology: Australian literary journals on the edge

Literary journals have always existed on the edge of Australian literature: constantly springing up, folding, and regenerating; always under threat from funding cuts, never truly popular, but with high literary value nonetheless. Over the last ten years, Australian literary journals have moved closer to the edge, as the digital revolution completely overturned their material form, and, some said, threatened their future. While they have survived, literary journals have well no longer ‘journals’ or ‘magazines’ at all, but something else – they’re websites, web publications, podcasts, events, social media entities, as well as print editions all at once – often these different media refer to one another, inform one another, revise and comment on one another, and together form a new kind of text.