Published 16 December 200819 December 2008 · Main Posts typewriter art Andrew The typewriter is a mechanical tabulator, a character assasinator, a syntagmatic manipulator. It arranges textual space as a Cartesian plane, each letter occupying a unique position on the two-dimensional grid. It’s a machine for a linear, ordered world. It standardises writing, hammering out the personal flourishes and curlicues into mass-produced typeface. Rows and columns, ragged right. The typewriter belongs to the industrial age, soulmate of the sewing machine and the repeating rifle. And yet people respond to industrial artefacts in ways that could never have been imagined by the manufacturer. Typewriter art has been around as long as the typewriter itself. An optical illusion, feedback interaction between work and viewer, magical gasp of the mind as it perceives signal in the noise. Psychedelic concrete poetry, secret messages embedded in the cryptographic cascade. What comes first, the word or the image? See more typewriter art. Andrew More by Andrew › 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 8 September 202326 September 2023 · Main Posts Announcing the 2023 Judith Wright Poetry Prize ($9000) Editorial Team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks poetry by writers who have published no more than one collection of poems under their own name (that is writers who’ve had zero collections published, or one solo collection published). It remains one of the richest prizes for emerging poets, and is open to poets anywhere in the world. In 2023, the major prize is $6000, with a second prize of $2000 and a third prize of $1000. All three winners will be published in Overland. First published in Overland Issue 228 8 September 202315 September 2023 · Main Posts Announcing the 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize ($6500) Editorial Team Supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, and named after the late Neilma Gantner, this prize seeks excellent short fiction of up to 3000 words themed around the notion of ‘travel’; imaginative, creative and literary interpretations are strongly encouraged. This competition is open to all writers, nationally and internationally, at any stage of their writing career.
