Published 7 June 2012 · Writing / Main Posts / Culture The Slow Canoe Clare Strahan Overland’s epublishing debut, Women’s Work, was launched in March to a delightful critical response. As Sophie Cunningham said in her launch speech, the stories in this ‘finely wrought’ collection of five short stories by new writers are worth reading over and over again. A steal at $5.95: if you haven’t already made this wise investment, I firmly encourage you to do so now. Three of the writers from Women’s Work will be reading for The Slow Canoe on 7pm Friday 15 June the Schoolhouse Studios (97 Nicholson Street, Abbotsford). The Slow Canoe is a delicious literary evening – an ‘informal night, in the company of cheap drinks’ – where good writers (Kate Holden, Steve Amsterdam, Michael Meehan and Jessica Au, to name a few) come to read their work and share the stories of others, all for $5 entry. I’ll be there, as will Women’s Work’s Georgina Luck, Helen Addison-Smith and Cheryl Adam. Join us. Clare Strahan Clare Strahan is a two-time novelist with Allen & Unwin publishers, long-ago contributing editor to Overland, and teaches in the RMIT Professional Writing & Editing Associate Degree. More by Clare Strahan › 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 17 April 202417 April 2024 · Culture From the edge of the circle pit: growing up punk and girl in Indonesia Dina Indrasafitri Circa 1999, I sat on the floor in a poorly lit house on the outskirts of Jakarta, still in my grey-and-white high-school uniform. The members of the protest punk band Anti-Military were plotting their first album recording in the next room. Scattered around me were political pamphlets, zines and books touching on the subjects of anarchism, anti-work and anti-racism. 28 March 20249 April 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.