River Margin is an international journal with a focus on ecology, botany and wild places, publishing poetry, essays, short fiction, creative non-fiction, photography and visual art.
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River Margin was created in 2026 by Melbourne-based visual artist, musician and writer Lana Eileen.
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River Margin was created as a space to explore and highlight overlooked aspects of the natural world: tiny wild-growing plants, threatened rivers, things hidden in the undergrowth. The name refers to the riparian zone, a natural border — River Margin is a space where the liminal, the edge-dwelling, the peripheral and the unnoticed can find a voice.
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River Margin wants poetry, essays, short fiction, creative non-fiction, photography and visual art that relates in some way to the natural world — ecology, botany, rivers, the wilderness, wildlife — and this can be as broad as the disciplines we accept.
River Margin is produced on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation in Naarm. We acknowledge the deep and enduring relationships between First Peoples, waterways, lands, plants, animals and skies, and pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.