Why The New Platypus Review?
Welcome
to The New Platypus Review, an expressive online journal of writing, visual and aural arts, celebrating the range of human experience—thoughtful to playful, profound to absurd, wondrous to terrifying—from creators young and old and every age in between. The sort of thing you might expect from a place whose spirit animal is a small mammal with a duck’s bill and that lays eggs, lives in a billabong, comes out at night, has a venomous spur on its heel, and has survived for 120 million years. Vulnerable. Resilient. You know—life.
Why The New Platypus Review?
- The old platypus ran away;
- When the editor was 12, he and his best friend, Rob Huntington, whose photographs grace our landing page, created the first Platypus Review, Issue #1 and only, and 55 years later it felt like time to play again;
- Our acronym is “NPR,” and we have a hankering to be sued by National Public Radio;
- As a former maker of magazines, from children’s to business to a liberal arts college journal, what the editor missed most was seeing creators’ new work and sharing it with others;
- You really can’t have too many platypi in the world.