For Writers

Submissions

We run open calls for submissions throughout the year:

  • Non-fiction and fiction call-outs generally open four times a year and invite full submissions in response to a loose edition theme.
  • Poetry call-outs are open four times a year and invite full submissions for poetry on any subject (poetry doesn’t need to align with edition themes).
  • We occasionally open call outs for specific projects such as GR Online and the Griffith Review Emerging Voices competition.
  • Sign up to our e-news and follow us on socials for announcements on upcoming call-outs.

Griffith Review in 2025

  • Griffith Review 87: No Place Like Home (Feb): in search of home. CLOSED
  • Griffith Review 88: Culture Vultures (May): consuming the culture of the 21st century. CLOSED
  • Griffith Review 89: Here Be Monsters (August): what are we most afraid of? CLOSED
  • Griffith Review 90: Best Dressed (November): going behind the seams to unpick the paradoxes of fashion.

Emerging Voices Competition 2025

Calling all emerging writers

We're looking for orginal submissions of fiction and creative non-fiction from 3,000 words up to 5,000 words. You can write to any theme you like – but we want new ideas, fresh voices and bold perspectives. We're looking for work that commands our attention.

Griffith Review  has a long history of discovering and supporting early-career writers. We have a distinguished track record of nurturing new voices, publishing creative thinkers and supporting our writers to establish enduring industry connections.

Up to four winning entries will be selected by our judges John Morrissey (author), Jane Novak (Jane Novak Literary Agency) and Terri-ann White (Upswell) as well as Griffith Review's editorial team. The winners will share a prize pool of $20,000 and have their work published in Griffith Review.

For the purposes of this competition, we’re defining ‘emerging’ as writers ranging from previously unpublished through to those with a maximum of one published book (fiction or non-fiction).

Entry fees are $25 for non-subscribers and $15 for current subscribers. The entry fee entitles you to a complimentary digital subscription to Griffith Review valid for six months. If you are already a subscriber, we’ll extend your existing subscription by six months.

Things to note:
* This competition is only open to Australian residents.

* Details on how to pay the entry free and the links to full terms and conditions of entry are in the Submittable link below


Submissions close: 11:59 pm Monday 7 April 2025

Winners announced: end July 2025

Submit here

Writers’ guidelines

Griffith Review is a literary and current affairs journal that’s aimed at a general readership – although we’re part of a university, we’re not an academic publication. We publish work by established and emerging writers – most from Australia, some from overseas – and we curate each edition loosely around a particular theme.

We like writing that’s erudite yet accessible, provocative yet persuasive – but what’s most important to us is that our writers have the space to express their own voice.

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