ABOUT
Quarterly Essay is an agenda-setting Australian journal of politics and culture. Each issue contains a single essay written at a length of about 25,000 words, followed by correspondence on previous essays.
Established in 2001, Quarterly Essay aims to present the widest range of political, intellectual and cultural opinion and to foster debate. It offers a forum for original long-form investigations, profiles and arguments.
Award-winning essays include Political Animal and Power Trip by David Marr, That Sinking Feeling by Paul Toohey and Stop at Nothing by Annabel Crabb. Authors include Tim Flannery, Don Watson, Robyn Davidson, Germaine Greer, Robert Manne, George Megalogenis, Laura Tingle, Anna Krien, Waleed Aly, Inga Clendinnen, David Malouf and Noel Pearson.
Quarterly Essay is part of the Schwartz Media family of publications. The Monthly is the country’s leading current affairs magazine, which since its commencement in 2005 has regularly won the Current Affairs, Business & Finance category at the Australian Magazine Awards. The Saturday Paper, which commenced in 2014, offers serious features, independent commentary and innovative lifestyle content – definitive accounts of the week’s most important stories.
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Quarterly Essay
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For editorial queries regarding QE, please contact the Editor:
Chris Feik: quarterlyessay@blackincbooks.com
Please note, Quarterly Essay accepts correspondence on the current issue, of any length between 500 and 2000 words, with a preference for brevity. A selection of this correspondence is published in the subsequent issue. All published respondents receive a two-year subscription. We do not accept unsolicited proposals for Quarterly Essays.
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