Editor Antonia Case Publisher The Bull Publishing First issue 28 July 2014 | Frequency Quarterly Year founded 2014 | |
Categories Women, Culture, Art, Design, Psychology, Fashion | ||
Womankind is an ad-free newsstand women's magazine distributed throughout the UK, Australia, NZ, the US, and Canada. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that it had "an initial circulation of 20,000 and is aiming to find a broad demographic of smart women interested in big ideas about philosophy, sociology and psychology.". It is distributed in 3,000 news agents in Australia. Womankind was the best-selling item in the history of the Byron Bay Writers' Festival when it launched there in 2014 and is one of the world's few ad-free newsstand publications. It is produced by the team behind the world's most widely distributed philosophy magazine, New Philosopher, which launched in 2013 and is available in Australia, NZ, the US, Canada and the UK.
Contents
Ad-free
The ad-free format attracted commentary from media organisations: ArtsHub noted that it had climbed steadily to the top of women's magazines to compete with Marie Claire and Vogue and describes it as "disrupting the publishing industry as it feeds the souls of a broad demographic of smart women interested in big ideas about philosophy, sociology and psychology." Broadsheet describes it as "changing the concept of what a women's magazine is".
Awards
The launch cover of Womankind featured Simone de Beauvoir and was voted one of the top in the world by German media website MEEDIA. In 2016 Library Journal selected Womankind as one of the best magazines in the US for 2015, saying that "the distinguished contributors and artists deliver insightful and intriguing ideas via text, photography, and drawings" and that "although created predominantly by and for women, it will have much to offer independent thinkers of all genders."
Contributors
Contributors include Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre, Irish Book Awards winner Niamh Boyce, Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner Lucy Treloar, and Commonwealth Writers' Prize winner Charlotte Wood