About the Journal

Published from 1969 until 2016, LiNQ (Literature in North Queensland) published fiction and poetry, as well as peer-reviewed papers and reviews of local, national, and international interest in the areas of literature, media, cinema, and culture.

The journal had a long standing commitment to regional writing in general and to Australian literature in particular.

In 2017, LiNQ partnered with eTropic journal to produce a special issue titled "Bold Women Write Back."

Current Issue

Vol. 42 (2016): Place, Past and Perspective
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The “Place, Past and Perspective” edition of LiNQ appears at a time when the journal itself is symbolically situated at the intersection of all three. LiNQ has a long association with the regional writing, explorations of place and landscape, and has forged strong connections between locations. Recently, LiNQ’s rich and diverse past was fully digitised (https://journals.jcu.edu.au/linq/issue/archive), a set of online archives that span fifty years of scholarship and writing. This moment—a pause, a surveying of the past—offers a fresh perspective. It is fitting then, looking to the future, that LiNQ is refreshed; next year, the journal will appear as an annual issue of eTropic (https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic). This move offers new opportunities to connect, hear from fresh voices and perspectives, and to conceive of place as multi-faceted, layered and diverse.
Published: 06-12-2016

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LiNQ was founded in 1969 by Dr. Elizabeth Perkins, a lecturer in English at the then University College of Townsville, by members of Townsville community belonging to the English Language and Literature Association (ELLA), and interested undergraduates in the Department of English. The founders’ vision was to encourage and support writers living in tropical Queensland by providing them with ‘an authoritative publishing venue, and by linking their work with the national and international literary communities.’ LiNQ therefore was to include ‘a limited amount of work by authors not based in the region’. From its first issue in 1971, LiNQ has published poetry, short stories, play scripts, reviews, and articles on literary, artistic, historical and social themes for scholarly and general readers in the arts community. LiNQ‘s readers and contributors, although eminently local, have spanned the globe. LiNQ continued in unbroken production from 1969 to 2016, making it one of Australia's longest-standing literary journals.