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.
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Audio Overland II: Resistance: Poetry
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Audio Overland II: Resistance: Poetry
The Seduction of the cloud mistress
Audio Overland II: Resistance: Poetry
The MCG will imprison us
Audio Overland II: Resistance: Poetry
My wedding dress
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Seeking fiction from emerging writers
Cruel Miracles
Pity the emerging writer – or not
There are so many implications built into the term ‘emerging writer’, many of them patronising and designed to reinforce a hierarchy of power. There’s a kind of infantilising regard built into the idea.
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We Are Not The Same Anymore
These stories focus on individuals – generally men – who are lost, trapped, or apparently incompetent at their own lives; these stories turn on dialogue, and are riven with inconclusive tension.
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On the oppression of Tibet
I’d been writing about Burma for some years but it wasn’t until actually going there for the 2010 election and being with the people themselves that the full nature of their experience began to come clear.’
Cruel Miracles
The writer’s mind
Because I am someone who writes I spend a lot of time on my own. Consequently, I sometimes get into strange states of mind. That’s my job.
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Results of the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
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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Pay the writers
A major newspaper emails me via a literary journal to ask if they can publish one of my stories. I am afraid that in these straitened times all we could offer you in exchange for publication rights to the short story would be a quid pro quo arrangement in terms of publicity. They’re waving ‘exposure’ at me like it’s a cheque.
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Overland Emerging Poets Series: Zenobia Frost
Zenobia Frost is a Brisbane-based writer and critic with a PhD in burning the candle at both ends. Since 2009, she has released two chapbooks and toured both interstate and overseas. She travelled with the 2012 Queensland Poetry Festival Regional Roadshow, before whipping a full-length manuscript into shape at Varuna, the writers’ house.
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Shortlist for the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
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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