"TEXT special issue number 26 presents a range of papers on the theme of ‘Taste and, and in, writing and publishing’, edited by TEXT’s Special Issues Commissioning Editor, Professor Donna Lee Brien and Dr Adele Wessell from Southern Cross University. This special issue has an interesting genesis, arising in association with the editors’ creation of an issue of another widely-read open access journal, MC Journal, on the one-word theme of ‘Taste’."--p. 1.