A space to showcase the linguistic complexity that resists and persists in Australia today
The land that is now called Australia has always been home to hundreds of languages. Post-invasion, English was instated as the language of governance and power, but referring to Australia as an ‘English-speaking’ nation erases both the cultural and linguistic diversity that existed long before the first English speaker landed here, and the multitude of new languages migrants from around the world have brought with them since Australia’s creation.
Issues
17 October 2022
6 February 2021
22 June 2020
15 January 2020
24 June 2019
6 May 2019
25 November 2018
Submissions and enquiries
Submissions are currently closed.
Submission is via email and open only to multilingual folks living in Australia. (If you’re Australian but live overseas, get in touch.) Priority will be given to work by Indigenous/First Nations writers.
Find out more on our submissions page.
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If you are fluent in/confident with a language other than English and would like to work with the Australian Multilingual Writing Project, we want to hear from you.
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