The Lifted Brow is an Australian literary magazine founded in Melbourne in 2007 by Ronnie Scott, who was then a university student with no publishing experience and a conviction that Australian literature needed something noisier, weirder, and more adventurous than the existing journals provided. The magazine publishes fiction, essays, poetry, comics, art, and criticism with an editorial sensibility that values risk over respectability.
Over more than a decade of publication, The Lifted Brow has established itself as one of the most distinctive literary voices in the English-speaking world — a magazine that publishes experimental fiction alongside comics journalism, academic essays alongside illustrated memoir, and emerging Australian voices alongside international writers. The design is bold and the editorial attitude is generous: if the work is good and does something unexpected, the magazine will find room for it.
For readers who want their literary magazines to surprise them — and who believe that the best writing often comes from the places where genre boundaries dissolve — The Lifted Brow is the Australian publication that has been proving that point since 2007, one eyebrow permanently raised.
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