Janet Afary and Kevin B Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005, p. 206.
In ‘Killing the worm in ourselves’ (Boris Kelly, Overland 200), the binaries are, on the one hand, excessive drinking, leading to individual and social harm, spiritual depletion, sexual promiscuity and, on the other, sobriety, leading to individual control, capitalist productivity and a ‘sound … mind and body’.
Overland is seeking fiction from new and emerging writers for a special online edition to be selected by emerging editor, Emily Laidlaw. Submissions close midnight, Monday 3 June.
The $6000 major prize in the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets has been won by Luke Fischer with his poem, ‘Augury?’
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Winning poems for the $9000 prize will be announced Friday 15 March and published in Overland’s first issue of the year.
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Audio submissions of spoken word poetry are sought for the second edition of Audio Overland, to be published in April 2013.
Here’s the complete list of winners for Subscriberthon 2012. If you are one of the forty winners, your prize will be sent out in the next week or so. Thanks to all those Overland readers who subscribed this year, as well as the generous businesses and organisations that donated prizes.
Announcing the results of the first Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers
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For too long has poetry been disregarded as a valid vehicle for the exploration of real world experience. Too often has poetry been filed in the ‘too hard’ basket and deemed ‘irrelevant’ and ‘inaccessible.’ This declaration calls for an end to the mistreatment and marginalisation of poetic language; an end to the segregation of poetry from and by the authoritative discourse of prose. We summon forth the potential of poetry to expand our conceptions and perceptions of the ‘real.’
Entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize – the richest prize for emerging poets – close tonight. So Subscriberthon 2012 is extending for one last day. That means you can take out a subscription, enter your poem at a reduced rate and still go into the draw for the major Subscriberthon prizes. If you’re not a poet, you can still take advantage of this loophole to get your subscription while the prizes are still up for grabs.
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Though Overland’s a progressive not-for-profit, we still appreciate the finer things of life – and we’re sure you do, too. That’s why on this, the last day of Subscriberthon 2012, we’re offering enough prizes to make you sick.
If you haven’t yet subscribed, make sure you don’t miss out.
Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates more than $40 today goes into the draw for the following.