Hello, my name is Jack Callil. I’m deputy editor of Crikey, an Australian independent news publication. I also write literary criticism for Guardian Australia.
For six years, I was copyeditor of Meanjin, a quarterly publication of essays and creative writing, before it was closed by MUP and moved to Queensland. I was also digital editor of Australian Book Review, one of Australia’s leading literary and cultural magazines.
Elsewhere, my writing has appeared in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, Australian Book Review and Vice, among others.
In 2020, I was a finalist for the Walkley–Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, and I was selected as an emerging culture critic for The Age/SMH. I was the 2017 winner of the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Prize.
Please feel free to get in touch.