Kate Davison is a Berlin-based journalist, writer and activist. She obtained her Masters in English Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin, and is currently a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. We speak to Kate about her life in Berlin and her essay, ‘My German Question’, which appears in the latest issue of Overland.
Progressive culture since 1954
Topic: Writing
Audio Overland II: Resistance: Poetry
Occupy Who magazine
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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Kate Davison’s German question
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Hunting down the Great American Novel
Aaron Bady is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, specialising in African and post-colonial literature. He is editor-at-large of The New Inquiry, an online cultural criticism magazine, and he also blogs there regularly via Zunguzungu. Aaron talks to us about his essay ‘Zero Dark Geronimo’, which is featured in the latest issue of Overland.
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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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Winners of 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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Audio Overland II: Resistance
Audio submissions of spoken word poetry are sought for the second edition of Audio Overland, to be published in April 2013.
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Why don’t writers wear corpse paint?
Last year – and I no longer remember what prompted this – I became briefly obsessed with Norwegian black metal, especially the band Mayhem.
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‘Find out whose ideas you want to steal and whose you want to shed’
The Red Shed was a unique, extremely successful, politically grounded theatre project based in Adelaide; in Overland 209, Carlin writes about his experiences collectively running the company and the ways they influenced his approach to creative work.
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