Published in Overland Issue 223 Winter 2016 · Uncategorized Issue 223 Editorial team REGULARS Editorial – Jacinda Woodhead Natalie Harkin Mel Campbell Giovanni Tiso Alison Croggon Contributors FEATURES Sisonke Msimang End of the rainbow The Fallists and contemporary South Africa Natalie Kon-yu ‘A testicular hit-list of literary big cats’ Sexist values in literary culture Stuart Glover Getting on the same page Where to for arts funding? Sarah Burnside Science is golden Just not in Australia Olivier Jutel The political logic of desire On Antipodean conservatism Jay Carmichael Smalltown boy Coming out in an unsafe school Dean Biron The gun Life as a Queensland detective nakata brophy charmaine papertalk-green, toby fitch, katherine firth Nakata Brophy Prize report ellen van neerven First place: Expert FICTION Claudia Salazar Jiménez Translated by Elizabeth Bryer Letter to Salvador Ben Walter It’s all happening here Ellena Savage Postscript POETRY susie orpen Still dreaming shale preston Luminosity Philip Hammial Cautionary tales ouyang yu Their talk Fiona Wright There is repetition And they are angry Leif Mahoney Night pieces elliptic ecliptic Chris Mansell Quads 17–19 paul chicharo Transcendental mathematics Anna ryan-punch pseudonyms for women ARTWORK Savina Hopkins Guest artist issue 223: cover; illustrations on pages 4, 58, 65, 68 Brent Stegeman All other artwork Editorial team More by Editorial team › 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 1 6 November 2026 · Friday Fiction Headland Harry Goddard He must have still been sore. I could tell from the winces he made as he scooted down the trail. Some unspoken agreement of not hitting other people’s children — and the circumstances of me not being that type of kid — spared me from the same punishment. I was taken to my parents who agreed I would have to work off the damages, and I must have mowed the lawn once, or cleaned the family car. 4 November 2026 · Film MIFF, Minotaur and the politics of maternal reception Alicia Byrnes Maternal labour is, in the terms I’ve set out here, not labour at all. Noisy, unfocused, mobile, perhaps even sleepy — it is an affront to arthouse film viewing and therefore unserious.
