Published 9 March 201226 March 2012 · Main Posts An excellent way to spend an evening Editorial team Ask the publisher: Essay Find out the process of submission, the editorial relationship and the best publishing avenue for you. This month features guest editors Jeff Sparrow and Chris Feik who specialise in essay and literary writing and will discuss the current opportunities available to essay writers within and beyond their publications. Jeff Sparrow is editor of Overland, a magazine committed to engaging with important literary, cultural and political issues in contemporary Australia. Chris Feik is associate editor of the Monthly – an independent magazine of Australian politics, society, culture and media. Host, Fran Madigan, is director of The Real Business. Presented by Writers Victoria, in conjunction with the Society of Editors Victoria. When: 7 pm, Monday 19 March 2012 Where:Writers Victoria, Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale St Melbourne Bookings: Visit Writers Victoria or phone 9094 7855. Book now to receive discounted entry at the Writers Victoria membership rate. Offer closes COB 14 March. Editorial team More by Editorial team › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.