Overland’s 260th issue is our most substantial yet. At 212 pages, it contains writing from the winners and runners-up of the 2025 Judith Wright poetry and Neilma Sidney short story prizes, as well as last year’s Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. Across eight short stories, nine poems and five essays, this issue showcases the breadth of talent across generations: Hana Pera Aoake mounts a critique of the economies of First Nations artmaking, asking who exactly benefits when Maōri artists excel within an unregulated market predicated on individualism, while John Kinsella makes an extensive case for unoriginality as both poetic method and political resistance. Elsewhere, Tom Gurn, winner of the 2025 Neilma Sidney prize, imagines a surreal, fractured dialogue between two speakers orbiting loss and urban adaptation. Susie Anderson’s Nakata Brophy winning story follows a Blak elder navigating council rooms as she carries the stories of those who cared for her Country’s waterways. The issue also features new poetry by Ouyang Yu, Dorothy Lune and Dave Drayton, as well as an excerpt from Surveying the Wild Abyss, a new book by Hawkesbury elder and educator Barry Corr.
$115.00
This special joint subscription (available to Australian addresses only) offers Overland’s basic subscription package – a discounted 3-issue subscription to Overland (three print issues and the daily online magazine), invitations to subscriber events, and other opportunities and giveaways – and a one-year subscription to Westerly, which includes two print editions and other subscriber benefits.
Your subscription will begin with our next issue, Overland 261, due to be published in Nov-Dec 2026, unless otherwise requested.
Overland has adopted a new payment system. Even if you’re resubscribing, you will be asked to create a password to manage your account. If you’ve written for Overland before, you may already have a password (which is easy to reset if you’ve forgotten it). Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have difficulties. Note: Credit card details are not held by Overland, but managed securely through Stripe. Donations: If you wish, you can add a tax-deductible donation during the checkout process. Includes GST.
Overland has adopted a new payment system. Even if you’re resubscribing, you will be asked to create a password to manage your account. If you’ve written for Overland before, you may already have a password (which is easy to reset if you’ve forgotten it). Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have difficulties.
Note: Credit card details are not held by Overland, but managed securely through Stripe.
Donations: If you wish, you can add a tax-deductible donation during the checkout process.
Includes GST.
