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255 Winter 2024

This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.

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Published 7 December 2009 · Main Posts

sleeping beauties

Karen Pickering

Ever wondered what Zoe Dattner and Lou Swinn, co-Publishers-in Chief of Sleepers, reckon about Overland?

‘It’s just like Lenny Kravitz said: Baby it ain’t over till it’s Overland. And what he was really trying to say was that as soon as Overland arrived in his letterbox, he was gonna drop everything just to be with that magazine. And I know how he feels.’

Zoe Dattner, General Manager SPUNC inc.

‘Is “life’s pretty straight without Overland” too derivative?’

Lou Swinn, Publisher @ Sleepers

Couldn’t you just eat ’em up with a spoon?

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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.