Published in Overland Issue 222 Autumn 2016 · Uncategorized Issue 222 admin REGULARS Editorial – Jacinda Woodhead Vane Lindesay On John McLaren Mel Campbell Natalie Harkin Giovanni Tiso Alison Croggon FEATURES Ben Brooker Production lines of flesh and bone Meat-eating and the left Stephanie Convery Get your hands off my sister Rape and feminist justice Antony Loewenstein After independence South Sudan five years on Maxine Beneba Clarke The current inhabitants of the island A memoir AJ CarrutHErs, lia inCoGnita, saMuEl waGan watson, ElEna GoMEz Four perspectives on race and racism in Australian poetry A discussion Dean Brandum and Andrew Nette Police fictions On the history of crime television FICTION aliCE punG, EllEn van nEErvEn, stEpHaniE ConvEry Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize report laurEn FolEy First place: K-k-k ElizabEtH tan Coca-Cola birds sing sweetest in the morning As In the end, in the head Jo lanGdon What do you tell JaCk latiMorE Where waters meet POETRY Peter MintEr and toby FitCH 2015 Judith Wright Poetry Prize report Ella o’kEEFE First place: alkaway Omar Sakr Second place: Not so wild Jakob ziGuras Third place: Jet lag song nets ART wORk MiCHEllE Farran Brent stEGEMan admin More by admin › 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 2 29 May 202629 May 2026 · Politics Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Nick Riemer While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of antisemitism in Australia at the present moment, it is perverse that the Commission has refused to hear from the Palestine solidarity movement. 27 May 2026 · Reviews Losing our sense of struggle: Fiona Wright’s Kill Your Boomers May Ngo The precarity described in Kill Your Boomers feels mitigated — more existential than material. It’s the precarity of being lost in your life, rather than the threat of having to sleep out on the streets.
