THE IDEOLOGY OF THE "LITTLE MAGAZINES"

Catering for people with somewhat specialised interests in literature and ideas, often with political agendas.

The Age Monthly Review Dec 1987

Editor Paul Carter

Ed Asst. Sally Dugan

Designer Philip Burgoyne

Editorial Board

Murray Bail

Robert Haupt

Dorothy Green

David Malouf

Darryl Reanney

Peter Singer

Publisher John Jost

Eleven issues each year, 36 pages, $20 p.a.

The Editor,

Age Monthly Review

GPO Box 354E, Melbourne, 3001

Meanjin 3/87 (this is a house journal of the left).

Editor Jenny Lee

Ed Asst. Bev Roberts

Poetry Philip Mead

Fiction consultant Lucy Frost

Plus assistance for this issue from

Simon During

Kerryn Goldsworthy

Stephen Knight

Norbert Loeffler

Stuart Macintyre

Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Quarterly, 150 pages each edition, $20 p.a.

The Editor,

Meanjin

University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3052

Assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council, the Lockie Bequest (Uni of Melb) and the Ministry for the Arts, Victoria.

First published in 1940, by Clem Christersen in Brisbane.

Island Magazine 30, Autumn 1987

Eds Michael Denholm, Andrew Sant

Subeditor Stephen Edgar

Secretary Trishia McCullough

Design Christine Forsyth

Consultant Stephen Alomes

Quarterly, 72 pages per edition, $16 p.a.

Assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council, the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Government through the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board.

The Editors,

Island Magazine

PO Box 207, Sandy Bay, Tas, 7005

Overland 108, Sept 1987 (a house journal of the Old, moderate and literary left).

Editor Barrett Reid

Associate Eds Ken Gott

Robert Harris

Nancy Keesing

Vane Lindesay

Stuart Macintyre

John McLaren

Leonie Sandercock

Fay Zwicky

Contributing Dorothy Hewett (Sydney)

Eds Donald Grant (Perth)

Gwen Harwood (Hobart)

Martin Duwell (Brisbane)

Katherine Gallagher (London)

Tim Thorne (Launceston)

Quarterly, 96 pages per issue, $20 p.a.

Assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council and the Victorian Ministry for the Arts.

Australian Book Review, Dec '87

Editor Kerryn Goldsworthy 1987

Louise Adler 1988

Rosemary Sorensen 1989

Assoc Ed. Ken Gelder

1988

Ed. Board Mark Rubbo

John Curtain

x Keith Robertson

Diana Gribble x Stephen Knight

Richard Walsh +

Kevin Childs x Terry Moloney

Ian MacRae

Mary Lord

Laurie Muller

Teresa Pitt

John Hooker

x Max Teichman

Derek Whitehead

Contributing editors

Kate Ahearne (Booknotes)

Neville White

Robert Pascoe

Ken Gott

Barbara Giles

Bernard Hickey (Europe)

Ken Stewart (NSW)

Susan Hosking (SA)

Brian Dibble & Don Grant (WA)

Susan McKernan (ACT)

Chris Tiffin (Qld)

Published by the National Book Council.

Assisted by the Australia Council and (recently) by the Victorian Ministry for the Arts.

Eleven issues per annum, 38 pages, $30 p.a.

Interesting changes with the editorship of Louise Adler:

change to glossy paper and revamp of dull format,

move from usual middle of the road left to hard left,

funding acknowledged from Victorian Ministry of the Arts.

Address has changed

Level 5, 1 City Rd., South Melbourne, 3205

Quadrant Dec '87 (a house journal of the right)

Editor Peter Coleman

(1988, Roger Sandall)

1989 Coleman and Robert Manne

Assoc Ed Robin Marsden

Literary Ed Vivian Smith

Ed Board Anne Fairbairn

Martin Krygier

Sam Lipski

Anthony McAdam

Robert Manne

Patrick Morgan

Clyde Packer

Roger Sandall (incoming editor)

John Wheeldon

Eleven issues per annum, 80 pp per issue, $36 p.a.

Assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council.

The Editors,

Quadrant

PO Box C344 Clarence St PO, NSW 2000.

Scripsi April 1985 (may be out of date information)

Editors Peter Craven

Michael Heyward

Assoc Eds Penny Hueston

Colin McDowell

Ed Asst. Rosemary Hunter

Quarterly, 228 pages per issue,

Assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council, the Victorian Ministry for the Arts and the Melbourne University English Dept.

The Editors

Scripsi

Dept English, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052

Australian Literary Studies 1987

Editor L. G. Hergenhan

Assistant Martin Duwell

Ed. Committee Alan Lawson

Stan Mellick

Chris Tiffin

Helen Tiffin

Arlene Sykes

Advisors Geoffrey Dutton, Brian Elliot, A. D. Hope, A. N. Jeffares, Joseph Jones, Frank Kermode, Brian Kiernan, Leonie Kramer, R. L. McDougall, J. P. Matthews, E. G. Moll, Bede Nairn, Michael Roe, G. H. Russell, Michael Wilding, G. A. Wilkes, Judith Williams.

Quarterly,

Assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council and the University of Qld.

The Editors

English Dept, University of Qld.

Politics 1987

Editor Marian Simms

Assistant Gillian O'Loghlin

Review Ed. Brian Head

Associate Ed. Andrew Parkin

Board

Don Aitkin, Jonathan Boston, Leslie Holmes, Dean Jaensch, James Jupp, Ian McAllister, Graham Maddox, Jeremy Moon, Carole Pateman, Marian Sawer, Randal Stewart, Patrick Weller.

Quarterly

Organ of the Australian Political Studies Association.

Editorial address: Dr Marian Simms, Dept Pol Sci, The Faculties, ANU, PO Box 4 Canberra, ACT 2601.

Arena ("a marxist journal of criticism and discussion")

Editors Geoff Sharp, Doug White, Nonie Sharp, Gerry Gill, John Hinkson, Paul James, Alison Caddick.

Board (in addition to some of the above)

Marian Aveling, Barry Carr, Fiona Mackie, Kent Middleton, Lorraine Mortimer.

Rev Editors Barry Carr, John Spierings.

Ed Associates

Adelaide Doug McEachern, Brian Abbey, Adrian Vicary

Armidale Anthony Ashbolt, Chris Loyd, Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Brisbane Chilla Bulbeck

Sydney Ann Curthoys, John Docker

Editorial group for Arena 81 Barry Carr, Nick Hartland, Paul James, Eileen Sedunary, Doug White.

Quarterly, 190 pages per issue.

$18 annual sub.

Box 18, North Carlton, Vic 3054 phone 489 9244

Southerly

Contact Sydney Branch of the English Association for office bearers.

Westerly July 1984

Eds Bruce Bennett, Peter Cowan

Advisors

Margot Luke, Veronica Brady, David Brooks, Hilary Fraser

Quarterly, 120 pp per issue, $10 pa

Assisted by the Literature Board of the AC and the WA Literary Fund.

Published at the Centre for Studies in Aust Lit.

c/o Dept English, Uni of WA, Nedlands, 6009 Ph 380 3838.

Social Alternatives

Eds

Graeme Duncan, Ross Fitzgerald, Les Hoey, Ralph Summy, Linda Carroli, Nancy Westerman.

Book Revs Reba Gostand, Fiction

P. Marriott, Poetry

Malcolm Saunders, Social & Political

Subs Helen Williams

Quarterly, 72 pp, $20 per annum

c/o Dept Government, Uni of Qld, St Lucia, 4067.

Redoubt

Managing Ed David P. Reiter

Fiction Maureen Bettle, Jim O'Gorman, Peter Magee.

Poetry John A. Scott, Helen Gilbert, David Evans.

Script John Conn, Bruce Vincent, Michael Farrell.

Features Iain McCalman, Di Deane, Ernie Van See.

Reviews Ruth Sless.

Translations Nick Hassanoff, Oscar A. Florenz, Michael Sawer.

Quarterly, 70 pp, $16 pa.

Published by the School of Communications, Canberra College of Advanced Education, PO Box 1, Belconnen, ACT 2616

The Australian Author,

Ed Board Robert Pullan, Ken Methold, Duncan Ball.

Officers of the Society

President Colin Theile

Foundation Pres Dal Stivens

Chairman Tom Keneally

Deputy Ken Methold

Treasurer Duncan Ball

Exec Members Robert Pullan, Barbara Jefferis

Exec Officer Denise Yates

Committee of Management

Hugh Anderson, Allan Ashbolt, Carmel Bird, Brian Dibble, Barbara Jefferis, Tom Keneally, Bill Larkins, Roger McDonald, Elizabeth Mansutti, Joanna Mendelssohn, Ken Methold, Michael Parer, Robert Pullan, Duncan Ball.

State Reps

Qld Joan Priest

WA Ethel Webb

SA Elizabeth Mansutti

Tas Rupert Maclean

NSW Bill Larkins

Quarterly.

Journal of the Australian Society of Authors, PO Box 450, Milsons Pt. 2061. Ph 92 7235

Editorial Board, 21 Leichhardt St. Glebe, 2037.