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CounterText is a literary journal published three times a year in print and online by the Edinburgh University Press.

Introduction
The journal focuses on contemporary literary and post-literary cultures, publishing articles, interviews, and creative work centered on the study of literature and its 21st-century extensions. The journal has three issues for each year: April, August, and December issues. For the very first time, the journal was published in April 2015. Since then, CounterText has released 19 issues. Each issue of the journal focuses on different literary and cultural works and publishes interviews with important literary and art figures of the 21st century.

Journal's Aim
CounterText is uniquely centred on the study of literature and its 21st-century extensions. Is literature what it used to be? Are the broader resonances of the literary being overtaken in the drifts towards image cultures, digital spaces, globalization and techno-scientific advances? Or might the literary simply be elsewhere? CounterText seeks and commissions contributions that explore this fluid 'post-literary' reality in its various forms and challenges.

For CounterText, the post-literary is the domain in which any artefact that might have some claim on the literary appears. Inevitably, most of these artefacts will conform to familiar manifestations of the literary, doing little to reconfigure cultural givens and accepted notions of textuality. However, the post-literary domain also allows for vital and challenging migrations and mutations of the literary. Such artefacts might be called 'countertextual'. The countertextual is strategic, energetic, metamorphic and revelatory of the charged evolutions and radical transformations of the literary today.

Fully peer-reviewed, CounterText seeks to explore this perspective on the literary in the 21st century. The journal is informed by perspectives derived from literary criticism, cultural criticism, philosophy and political theory, with a particular interest in studying technology’s reshaping of literary and post-literary cultures.

Interviews
Even though the journal is new in the market of literary magazines, it has had fourteen interviews until today. The journal published interviews with writers, poets, critics, artists, such as Tom McCarthy, Timothy Clark, Simon Critchley, Stephanie Strickland, Marie-Laure Ryan, Patrick McGuinness, J. Hillis Miller books, Raja Shehadeh, Tim Parks, Brandon LaBelle, Rod Mengham, John Kinsella, David Shields, and Simon Goldhill.

Critical Writings
Over the years, CounterText has published several critical writings, such as  Narrative Affect in William Gillespie's Keyhole Factory and Morpheus: Biblionaut, or, Post-Digital Fiction for the Programming Era  by Eric Dean Rasmussen,  The Computational Sublime in Nick Montfort's ‘Round’ and ‘All the Names of God’' by Mario Aquilina,  The CounterText Interview: Stephanie Strickland  by Stephanie Strickland, Mario Aquilina, and Ivan Callus,  The Endgame or a Wake?: Tropes of Circularity in Literature Then and Now '' by Diogo Marques, and more.

Fifth Anniversary
In 2020, CounterText celebrated its fifth anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, Edinburgh University Press and the journal’s editorial team (based at the Department of English at the University of Malta) have put together a Fifth Anniversary virtual collection.

Conferences and Meetings
Conferences, panels, presentations and meetings themed around the countertextual and the post-literary at Durham University, University of Cambridge, UCL, Newcastle University, Goldsmiths College, Leuven, University of Bergen and the University of Malta.