Verity La was established in 2010 as an online, transnational creative arts journal publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual art, reviews and interviews from Australia and around the world.  

After ten years of publishing and a five-year hiatus, we’ve returned in 2025 with a new name —Verity La La — and a new vision: to live out the value of freedom of expression.
 
We believe that in recent years literary culture has lost sight of what writers are called to do — to tell the truth, to be courageous with our pens, to be independent thinkers, and to be led by our art.  
 
At Verity La La, we are solely interested in publishing compelling stories that offer insight into the human condition. We value each writer as an individual with their unique experiences and perceptions of reality. We are committed to maintaining a thriving literary community that allows for unfettered creativity and fosters an exciting exchange of ideas. And we uphold the right of our authors and editors to create and publish without fear or favour. 
Our Team

Verity La La is Co-Edited by Michele Seminara and Magan Magan. We are an artist-run, not-for-profit organisation. Our wonderful board members are Yvette Henry-Holt, Jeanne Ryckmans, Karen Hughes and Orazio Seminara. 

Submissions 

Read our full submissions guidelines for more details. 

Do Stay in Touch

Subscribe to us via our Home page. Follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram. Dance a jig. You know you want to. If there’s something you want to tell us, something you want to share, or you just feel like saying ‘Hi there, how are you?’ then drop us a line via editor@verityla.com.

Official Info

The National Library of Australia archives Verity La La in the National Bibliographic Database as part of the PANDORA Archive, which ensures that all the material published here is safeguarded against changes in hardware and software, and that all the contributions made to this journal are protected in perpetuity. ISSN 2200-6969.

A small selection of work is also archived at Deakin Research Online, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

The journal is comprehensively listed on the AustLit database.

Verity La La gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Australian Council for the Arts for supporting the journal throughout 2018 and ’19, and to Create NSW for its support in 2020. 

The opinions expressed in the works published on Verity La La do not necessarily reflect those of its Editorial Team or Board, nor are they necessarily endorsed through the act of publishing. We welcome respectful and informed discussion and urge you to get in touch via editor@verityla.com to raise any questions or concerns. Our ears are always open.

Why Verity La?
Verity outside the Sydney Building in the late 1930s

Verity outside the Sydney Building in the late 1930s

It’s an abbreviation of ‘Verity Lane’, a very dodgy back-alley in Canberra, Australia’s national capital, where the journal was born. (These days we operate from a network of laptops all over the country – don’t tell ASIO.) More importantly, however, the name now given to the lane also commemorates the birth there, in 1938, of Verity Hewitt’s, Canberra’s first serious bookshop. In that pre-electronic age, this bookshop and its owner encouraged the distribution and intelligent discussion of literature in the otherwise bleak cultural environment of 1930s Canberra, perhaps comparable in some ways to the use today of online journals. From a wider perspective, Verity was a remarkable example of a mid-twentieth-century woman, independent, brave, and with a deep and creative interest in literature and people. In fact, she was such a special lady, a book has been written about Verity and some of her letters have also been published! Verity’s family has informed us that she would have been sympathetic with our aims and pleased with our work.  Hope Verity Fitzhardinge (1908-1986): we honour you; you are our patron saint.

 

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Verity La La acknowledges the Aboriginal people as the Traditional owners and Custodians of the lands on which we now work and live. We pay our respects to the Ancestors and Elders who were, and continue to be, the storytellers helping us to know our Country and her people of the past and present more clearly. We are reminded of the journey that began with the Aboriginal people in this land, but that now incorporates the larger family of Torres Strait Islanders and Australian people.