Friday, July 24th 2026
Griffith Review is an Australian literary magazine and they want fiction and nonfiction submissions for issue 95; the theme is Bodies of Work. “Modern life can be a curiously disembodied experience: we swipe and scroll, crop and click, zoom and control+z; our interactions are often mediated by screens or filters; we no longer look one another in the eye as we once did (or we’re forced to do it on Teams).
Are our flesh-and-blood selves becoming attenuated and atomised by the increasingly digital texture of our days? What’s the fate of the human body in this age of looksmaxxing and biohacking? How do our historic perceptions and misconceptions of bodily states and identities, including disability and gender, inform our present and shape our future?”
They mostly accept work from writers in Australia, and some work from overseas writers. Do not send poetry. They pay AUD0.75/word for prose up to 4,000 words. The submission deadline is 23 August 2026 (11:59 pm AEST). Details here and here
Deadline: August 23rd, 2026
Friday, May 15th 2026
Griffith Review is an Australian literary magazine and they want fiction and nonfiction submissions for issue 94; the theme is Out of Office. “Most of us will spend a dispiriting 90,000 hours of our lives at work. That’s a third of the average lifespan; no wonder so many of us want to stick it to the man. Love it or hate it, how we spend our working hours – whether for ourselves, for our families or for a faceless corporation – can have a profound influence on our self-worth, our social circles, and our sense of purpose and identity. But where did work come from? What rights should our employers have to circumscribe our speech? What’s the role of unions in the twenty-first century? Why don’t we have a universal basic income? How do we separate our jobs from our selves? And whatever happened to the four-hour work week?
This edition of Griffith Review clocks in for another day at the coalface.”
They mostly accept work from writers in Australia, and some work from overseas writers. Do not send poetry. They pay AUD0.75/word for prose up to 4,000 words. The submission deadline is 17 May 2026 (11:59 pm AEST). Details here and here
Deadline: May 17th, 2026
Tuesday, February 10th 2026
Griffith Review is an Australian literary magazine and they want fiction and nonfiction submissions for issue 93; the theme is Into the Archive. “The archive has long been a form of collection, preservation and communication. As the internet and social media reshape what, why and how we record information, whether for personal or institutional means, the nature of the archive itself is also in flux. How does the archive mediate the relationship between public and private space? How do archives shape individual and collective memory? Should the archivist preserve without intervention? What will the archives of the future look like? And in what ways do other mediums – bodies, places, cultures – act as their own kinds of archive? This edition of Griffith Review goes on the record to reveal the secrets and surprises of the archive.”
Do not send poetry. They mostly accept work from writers in Australia, and some work from overseas writers.
Deadline is 15 February 2026 (11:59 pm AEST)
Length: Up to 4,000 words for prose
Pay: AUD0.75/word
Details here and here
Deadline: February 15th, 2026
Tuesday, November 25th 2025
Griffith Review is an Australian literary magazine and they want fiction and non-fiction submissions for issue 92; the theme is Lost and Found. “'Loss,' wrote Marcus Aurelius, 'is nothing else but change'. We lose face, lose time, lose heart, lose touch, lose ground, lose our keys (often); we can lose the things that hold us back or weigh us down, just as we can lose the people and places we love most. Loss, whether it offers us pain or reward, is fundamental to the experience of being human. What might we lose or gain as technology continues its rapid advance? How do we halt the loss of our natural world? What's lost by growing up between cultures? Are we losing our sense of a shared reality? And what are the benefits to being a loser?'
They mostly accept work from writers in Australia, and some work from overseas writers.
Deadline: 30 November 2025 (11.59 AEST)
Length: Up to 4,000 words for prose (for print)
Pay: AUD0.75/word
Details here and here.
Deadline: November 30th, 2025