Antler Velvet Arts Magazine is an indie online arts magazine—a wild, untamed terrain for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. We embrace creative works of all kinds without rigid submission guidelines. Our key focus is on fostering a place of expression, new ideas and unique ways of looking.

Australian Book Review, one of Australia’s major cultural magazines, presents high-quality journalism and new writing for the widest possible audience. It engages with all the arts, not just literature.

Baby Teeth Journal is an online indie publisher and small press. They’re a queer, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation with a focus on local queer and emerging creators. Journal submissions are open on a rolling monthly basis.

Debris Magazine is a bi-annual literary publication based between France and Australia, showcasing essays, poetry, interviews, photography, and artwork from Australian writers and artists. Each issue is curated by guest editors to highlight diverse and experimental voices.

Cordite Poetry Review is an Australian and international journal of poetry, criticism and research.

Going Down Swinging is one of Australia’s longest-running and most respected literary journals: publishing digital as well as print and audio anthologies since 1979 and producing special, sold-out live events.

Griffith Review is a quarterly literary journal. Every edition explores a different theme, bringing together long-form critical and analytical non-fiction and creative writing from the finest emerging and established writers from Australia and overseas.

HEAT is a distinguished Australian literary journal renowned for its dedication to literary quality, and its commitment to publishing innovative and imaginative poetry, fiction, essays and the hybrid forms.

Island is a not-for-profit premium Australian literary magazine of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and arts features.

Jacaranda Journal is a vibrant biannual creative publication dedicated to emerging and established Australian poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, artwork, and photography.

Kill Your Darlings is one of Australia’s leading arts and culture magazines. Beginning life as a print quarterly in 2010, KYD is today a vibrant and eclectic online magazine of commentary, essays, interviews, fiction and reviews.

Liminial is an anti-racist literary platform, publishing art, writing, interviews and more. Founded by Leah Jing McIntosh in late 2016, the Liminal project aims to support talented writers and artists in so-called ‘Australia’, with a focus on the Asian Australian experience.

Locative Magazine is a literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction and poetry. They are based in Sydney, Australia and have a focus on new and original writing from local, emerging authors.

Loom is a new, national interdisciplinary literary journal. Loom will work in conversation with non-textual artistic mediums—both thematically, via longform visual art, music, film, game and theatre criticism; and formally, via the publication of experimental interdisciplinary literary work. 

Mascara Literary Review is a journal which focuses on the work of First Nations, CaLD, disabled and neurodivergent writers, as well as human rights and experimentation. They specialise in publishing platforms for minorities, focusing on cultural cohesion and participation.

Meanjin, for over 80 years, has fostered a rich and rigorous national conversation by remaining true to its founding principles: ‘to talk poetry’, ‘to work for a healthy climate of opinion and literary activity’, and ‘to make clear the connection between art and politics.’

Meniscus is an online, free access literary journal published by the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP). The editors and advisory board are based in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and welcome submissions from writers anywhere in the world.

Overland – Australia’s oldest radical literary magazine – has been showcasing brilliant and progressive fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art since 1954. The magazine has published some of Australia’s most iconic writers, and continues to give space to underrepresented voices and brand-new literary talent every single day.

Peril is an online magazine focused on issues of Asian Australian arts and culture. They have been sharing stories since 2006.

Plumwood Mountain Journal is an Australianand international journal of ecopoetry and ecopoetics.

Slush is a new online literary journal dedicated to publishing fiction. The journal seeks short stories, micro|flash fiction, prose poems and other hybrids that play with form to split and skew expectations.

Southerly is Australia’s oldest literary journal. The journal of the English Association, Sydney, it was launched in 1939 with works by authors such as AD Hope and Kylie Tennant. It was, from the outset, dedicated to publishing new Australian literature of the highest standard, and of providing a link between the academy and the garret.

Splinter is a new literary journal that is interested in the gaps between perception and reality and what happens when we get stuck in those gaps. It is published twice a year from Tarntanya (Adelaide, Australia). 

The Suburban Review has supported emerging and mid-career writers, artists, and editors since it was founded in 2013, through a publishing practice and a range of creative and professional development programs.

Varnish is a literary journal dedicated to ensuring that exceptional written works last. Proudly independent, they believe that a greater number of journals that are art-driven rather than profit-driven nurtures a broadening space for literary culture; more opportunities for writers to be published grants readers access to a greater diversity of voices.

Verandah is an art and literary journal that aims to provide a voice for emerging artists and writers, presenting them with the opportunity to have their work read, shared and published.

Voiceworks is a national literary journal that features exciting new writing and art by young Australians. Their purpose is to create a space for people under twenty-five to develop their creative and editorial skills and to publish, and be paid for, their fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art and comics. 

Westerly has always sought to provide a Western Australian-based voice, although its contributors and subject matter have never been geographically exclusive. It covers literature and culture throughout the world, but maintains a special emphasis on Australia, particularly Western Australia, and the Asian region.