Alice Gage

Ampersand Magazine is a Melbourne-based curiosity journal. It is produced infrequently, which means roughly once a year. It contains non-fiction, fiction, poetry, interviews, and visual art.

Ampersand voraciously collates material from diverse fields of interest in a mission to better understand the world.

Ampersand explores creativity, societal change and the human condition. It is interested in the unfashionable, the unorthodox, the illuminating, and the rare.

Ampersand brings together academia and pop culture, seriousness and humour, innovation and tradition. It intertwines it all with absurdity, sex and cheap laughs.

Ampersand is a print magazine in a digital world – with one foot in the old world, Ampersand is a magazine you can hold, drop in the bath, keep, collect, and share.


Ampersand publishes the work of emerging and established writers and artists from Australia and around the world.

Our previous five issues have seen the work of some 150 contributors including:

Tracey Moffatt, Lisa Pryor, Suzannah Biernoff, Erik Kessels, Christos Tsiolkas, Bill Henson, Nick Coyle, Claudia O'Doherty, Bob Brown, Tommy Murphy, My Darling Patricia, The Suitcase Royale, Ralph Myers, Sebastian Meyer, Heidi Yardley, Courtney Collins, Gareth Liddard, Bob Log III, Laura Jean, Warwick Baker, Eddie Sharp, Alyssa McDonald, Bonny Cassidy, Tom Civil, Adam Jasper Smith, Amelia Groom, Willoh S Weiland, Simon Greiner, Fran Barrett, Briohny Doyle, Stephan Balleux, Lucy Kaldor, Adam Hill, Rita Kalnejais, Nick Sun, SPOD, Leigh Rigozzi, Jess Cook, Lillian O'Neil, Emily Hunt, Stella Mozgawa, Anna Kristensen, Tom Polo, Soda_Jerk, James Harney, Toby Schmitz, John Birmingham, Amelia Stein, Polly Dedman, Leo Greenfield, Peter Combe, Shannon Holopainen.


And of course your contribution isn't just for the printing cost of this issue, it's for the ongoing life of Ampersand. It's for Issue 7 and beyond. For paying contributors, for distribution, for renting our office, for putting on events. It all costs those accused dollaroos. We really would love you to help us to continue doing this.

$4000 will only barely cover our printing costs, and of course we need a lot more than this – more to the tune of $8000. But we're trying to be realistic here.