Jacket (magazine)

{{Short description|Australian online magazine (1997–2010)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=April 2015}} {{italic title}} {{Infobox website | name = ''Jacket'' | logo = | screenshot = | caption = | url = {{URL|http://jacketmagazine.com}} | commercial = No | type = Online magazine | language = English | registration = none | country_of_origin = Australia | area_served = Worldwide | founder = John Tranter | editor = John Tranter, Pam Brown | founded = {{Start date|df=yes|1997|10}} | launch_date = | dissolved = 2010 | current_status = Archives still available. | successor = ''Jacket2'' }}

'''''Jacket''''' was an online literary periodical founded by the Australian poet John Tranter, published from 1997-2010. The first issue was in October 1997.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 50 Literary Magazines and Metazines|url=http://www.webdelsol.com/index-new-magazines2.htm|work=Web Del Sol|access-date=10 February 2016}}</ref>

Until 2010, each new number of the magazine was posted at the website piece by piece until the new issue was full, when the next issue started. Past issues remain posted as well. Most of the material was original to the magazine, "but some is excerpted from or co-produced with hard-to-get books and magazines, partly to help them find new readers", according to the ''Jacket'' website.

Peter Forbes called ''Jacket'' the "prince of online poetry magazines".<ref name=":0">Peter Forbes (6 June 2002) [https://www.theguardian.com/internetnews/story/0,7369,727824,00.html Working the web: Poetry], in ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 13 December 2006.</ref> After the 40th volume, Tranter gave the magazine to the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, where it was published with an augmented staff and resources at the Kelly Writers House as ''Jacket2''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jacket2.org/about-us |title=About us|publisher=Jacket2 |date= |access-date=15 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://jacketmagazine.com/00/home.shtml |title=Jacket Homepage|publisher=Jacketmagazine.com |date= |access-date=15 February 2014}}</ref>

==Awards== * Best of the Net award from the (Poetry) Mining Company in New York in December 1997. * Site of the Month at the Electronic Poetry Center site in Buffalo, New York, in November 1997 and December 1999 * Recommended Site in the Web Del Sol Literary Ring site for Poetry in December 1997 *Featured Site on the Booksmith Bookstore's "Literary Links" site in San Francisco, April 1998, * "Page One Award" site on the Fiction Webring in 1999 * Encyclopædia Britannica Internet Guide Award site, January 2000

== See also == *List of literary magazines

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{official website|jacketmagazine.com}}

Category:Australian poetry Category:Defunct literary magazines published in Australia Category:Magazines established in 1997 Category:Magazines disestablished in 2010 Category:Online literary magazines Category:Online magazines with defunct print editions Category:Poetry magazines published in Australia