The latest volume of TEXT is out now, featuring new scholarly writing by Saskia Beudel, Gretchen Shirm, Diane Stubbings, Ruth Jackson, Ronnie Scott, Karen Le Rossignol and Julia Harris, Valentina Maniacco, Jocelyn Richardson, Elizabeth A. Smyth.

Australia’s leading creative writing journal, TEXT, is calling for expressions of interest to guest edit an upcoming Special Issue for publication in December 2023:

Read our latest special issue, Creative Writing and Sport, edited by Kasey Symons, Lee McGowan & Ali Hickling. New work underlining the difficulties in definitions of sports writing and negating boundaries placed around its form.

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Last call! Our Australian winter reading period for our next general issue closes tomorrow, 31 July 2022. We welcomes the submission of research articles on creative and professional writing and processes, the teaching of writing and related issues.

Six days until we close our Australian summer reading period for TEXT journal. If you're aiming to get a scholarly article to us for consideration for our next general edition, we encourage you to send it soon.

TEXT's latest special issue Historical Biofictions from Australia and New Zealand is out now, edited by Catherine Padmore and Kelly Gardiner.

Our Australian summer reading period for scholarly articles towards our next general issue is now open, closing 31 July. We welcomes research articles on creative and professional writing and processes, the teaching of writing and related issues.

Check out Vol 26 No 2 at TEXT Journal. Hot off the press, with new articles on walking & writing, feminist revisionism after #MeToo and the immediacy of poetic thought.

Looking for summer reading? Check out our latest special issue Poetry Now, edited by Jessica L. Wilkinson, Cassandra Atherton & Sarah Holland-Batt. Together with 16 scholarly articles, this special issue also features poems by 19 poets.

The Oct 2021 edition of TEXT features new scholarly contributions from Jen Webb, Meera Atkinson, Jordan William, Jeri Kroll, Francesca Rendle-Short, Henry Adam Svec, Bonny Cassidy, Alex Gerrans, Huw Grange & Rielke Grimmer, among many others.

Our winter reading period for scholarly articles is closing soon. Submit your work by 31 July to be considered for the next general issue.

We have been busy transferring and updating our archives so that all of our scholarly articles are fully searchable with DOIs. You can now find general issues of TEXT dating back to 2015, and special issues dating back to 2017 at our new home at

TEXT Special Issue # 61: Writing through things, edited by Debra Wain & Melanie Saward is out now. It features new works that explore the fission between the arena of the mind and the concrete, tangible things of the world around us.

Volume 25, Issue 1 of TEXT Journal is out now, featuring scholarly articles by Julienne van Loon, Cleo Mees, Katherine Day, Owen Bullock, Jack Kirne, Kári Gíslason and Ronnie Scott et al as well as range of reviews and creative works.

The new reading period for scholarly articles at TEXT is now open. Submit your scholarly articles to our general edition between now and 31 July.

The new edition of TEXT is out now, including new scholarly work by Helen Marshall, Paul Hetherington, Michelle Aung Thin and Cassandra Atherton.

We are now open for scholarly article submissions for our April 2021 edition. See our 'For Authors' page for more information.

Congratulations to Maria Papas, who published with TEXT in the April 2020 edition, for her win at the TAG Hungerford award last night.

The reading period for scholarly articles for our October 2020 edition of TEXT has now closed. The submission period for the April 2021 edition will be 1 November 2020 through to 31 January 2021. We look forward to reading new work then.