Hermes is an annual literary journal published by the University of Sydney Union

University of Sydney Union

The University of Sydney Union is the student-run services and amenities provider at the University of Sydney. The Union's key services include the provision of food and beverages, live music and other entertainment, the Verge Arts Festival and other cultural activities, Orientation week and...

 the oldest such journal in Australasia

Australasia

Australasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes...

. The first issue appeared in July 1886. Publication was suspended in 1942-1944, 1953, 1955, 1964, and 1970-1984. Distinguished former editors have included Thomas Bavin (1874) James McAuley

James McAuley

James Phillip McAuley was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism.-Life and career:...

 (1937), Jock Marshall

Alan John (Jock) Marshall

Alan John Marshall was an Australian writer, academic and ornithologist.Marshall was born in Redfern, New South Wales. Despite having lost an arm in a shooting accident at the age of sixteen, he was active in several natural history expeditions, and had a distinguished service record during...

 (1941), and a duo of Les Murray

Les Murray (poet)

Leslie Allan Murray, AO , known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings...

 and Geoffrey Lehmann

Geoffrey lehmann

Geoffrey Lehmann is an Australian poet, children's writer, and tax lawyer. Lehmann grew up in McMahon's Point, Sydney, and attended high school at the Shore School in North Sydney. He graduated in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney in 1960 and 1963 respectively...

 in 1962.

Past Editors

Year	Name
2007	Lukasz Swiatek, Lucy Howard-Taylor, Amy Ireland, Maisie Dubosarsky
2008	Sara Haghdoosti, Pete Johnson, Samuel Moginie, Allan Tieu
2009	Amelia Walkley, Khym Scott, Bronwyn O'Reilly, Raven Dakota
2010	Will Atkinson, Carolyn Burns, Luke K. Craven, Elias Greig
2011	Michael Falk, Rosie Findlay, Dominic McNeil, Connie Ye

Further reading

• Barcan, A Student activists at Sydney University 1960-1967 Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES), January 2007. The retired education professor Alan Barcan published his personal view of activism at Sydney University during the 1960s, including references to the student publications Honi Soit
  Honi Soit
  Honi Soit is the student newspaper of the University of Sydney, first published in 1929 and produced by an elected editorial team as part of the activities of the Students' Representative Council...
  
  , Hermes and Arna
  Arna (publication)
  Arna is an annual journal published by the University of Sydney Arts Students Society. Originally named The Arts Journal of the University of Sydney, it was published regularly between 1918 and 1974 under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts. After a hiatus of 34 years, publication recommenced in 2008...
  
  

External links

• University of Sydney Union website
• Hermes