Scripsi was an Australian literary periodical published from 1981 to 1994 in Melbourne, first from the English Department and subsequently from Ormond College of the University of Melbourne.
Scripsi was founded in 1981 by Michael Heyward and Peter Craven, who met while studying at the University of Melbourne.
Associate Editors included Penny Hueston, Philippa Hawker, Owen Richardson and Andrew Rutherford.
[3][citation needed] It published a wide variety of Australian writers, in fiction, poetry and non-fiction, and attracted contributions from world-famous literary figures such as Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, Georges Perec, John Ashbery, August Kleinzahler and others.
Ostensibly a quarterly, Scripsi's gradually slowing publishing rate, rarely managing more than three issues a year, led the Australia Council to withdraw funding in 1994, and the magazine closed the same year.