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Welcome to Meniscus

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.

Meniscus publishes high quality, innovative poetry, short fiction, and creative essays in English, or in other languages with a good parallel translation. Meniscus publishes two issues a year: in April, and in October.

Please click here for information about making a submission.


Access to the AAWP's other publication and prize options is also available on the 'Submit' page.


All issues are freely available in pdf mode; please feel free to download them, and to share them with your networks. 

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