Jonathan Green
Meanjin editor Jonathan Green has been an editor, writer, commentator and broadcaster in a 40-year career as a journalist, beginning with a cadetship at The Canberra Times and taking in various Australian dailies: the Melbourne Herald, The Herald Sun, the Sunday Herald, The Sunday Age and 15 years at The Age. Jonathan left The Age in 2006 to edit Crikey. After three years there he moved to the ABC as founding editor of ABC Online’s The Drum. He now presents Blueprint for Living on ABC Radio National. He is the author of Around Australia In 80 Days (2004) and The Year My Politics Broke (2013). Jonathan was Editor ofMeanjin from 2015 to 2022.
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- Melbourne University Publishing announces Esther Anatolitis as the next Editor of 'Meanjin'
Melbourne University Publishing announces Esther Anatolitis as the next Editor of 'Meanjin'
- December new releases
In the 80th birthday edition of Meanjin, writers address the theme: The Next 80 Years. Pride of Place by Alisa Bunbury is a stunningly packaged hardback exploring the rich visual and textual material in the Grimwade Collection, and providing a unique perspective on Australia's history. Islam and Muslims in Australia by Jan Ali examines the diverse ways Muslims engage with religion locally.
- September new releases
Welcome to spring! Coming up this September, we look forward to publishing a new biography from the Miegunyah Press and the spring issue of Meanjin. Richard Broinowski’s Under the Rainbow chronicles the life of E.W. Cole, a colourful and much loved figure of 19th century Melbourne, while the latest Meanjin brings us a collection of fine writing from the pandemic.
- Meanjin: An excerpt of 'She Will Have Her Sway' by Clare Payne
Clare Payne argues that women are entering a new age of economic empowerment.
- Meanjin "#MeToo" Winter Edition – The Turning Point
This edition's feature essay, ‘The Turning Point: One man's downfall, #METoo and the rising up’ is written by bestselling author, Clementine Ford.
- Books from MUP this May!
Acollection of short fiction, finely curated by Meanjin's Editor Jonathan Green; a treatise and celebration in the single life; and, a celebration of motherhood contemplated by one of Australia's most respected journalists.
- The Meanjin Podcast Returns
After a three-year break, the Meanjin Podcast is back. Authors, readings, conversations, poets: it’s an irresistible mix of fine words and ideas, a spoken version of Australia’s favourite literary quarterly. You can listen to the first episode below, and subscribe via iTunes or Soundcloud.
- Meanjin Autumn Edition – out March 19
Nothing in his time as a British Royal Navy doctor at war prepared Nick Martin for what he found in his stint working as a medico for the Australian Department of Border Protection on Nauru. His story, in Meanjin, this Autumn.
- The winter Meanjin has arrived
Featuring Margaret Simons on precarious times at the ABC, Katherine Murphy on who would want to be a politician, new fiction from A.S. Patrić and John Clarke's final Commonplace column
- 10 highlights from Jonathan Green’s first year as Meanjin editor
Here are ten pieces of very fine writing (in no particular order) that were Jonathan Green’s absolute highlights from his first year as Meanjin editor.