Poet and co-editor of Overland Evelyn Araluen comes on to Spin Cycle to discuss the sudden closure of Meanjin, an Australian literary magazine that has been publishing for 85 years. After Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) decided that the journal was no longer financially sustainable, it shut down the journal leaving a gaping hole in Australia's literary landscape.

Evelyn Araluen shares the perspective of many writers, who are now left with semi-completed work that will no longer be published. They discuss the lack of communication over the closure, the University of Melbourne preventing anyone from taking over the magazine, whether removing the archives paywall will lead to AI scraping of decades of Australian literary culture, and whether literary work should be expected to produce profit in the first place.

"The work of a literary journal and especially one with the kind of legacy of Meanjin shouldn't have to be justified in financial terms that go down to a bottom line of profit and loss statements. The work of culture, literature, representation and truth telling isn't something that we can quantify in financial terms anyway."