Published 22 December 2009 · Main Posts the big sleep Karen Pickering It is a truth universally acknowledged that Lou Swinn and Zoe Dattner were put on this earth to publish the best writing they came across, for our collective reading pleasure. Sleepers Publishing is their labour of love and in the last year has published not only the Age Book of the Year but also our very own Kalinda Ashton’s debut novel, The Danger Game. Of course, they also publish the exquisite Sleepers Almanac, a collection of which has been offered up as another prize in our Subscriberthon draw. So who won? Julie Chevalier Lucky lady. Karen Pickering More by Karen Pickering 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 25 May 202326 May 2023 · Television The ‘Chinese question’ and colonial capitalism in New Gold Mountain Christy Tan SBS’s New Gold Mountain sets out to recover the history of the Gold Rush from the marginalised perspective of Chinese settlers but instead reinforces the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty. Although celebrated for its multilingual script and diverse representation, the mini-TV series ignores how the settlement of Chinese migrants and their recruitment into colonial capitalism consolidates the ongoing displacement of First Nations peoples. First published in Overland Issue 228 15 February 202322 February 2023 · Main Posts Self-translation and bilingual writing as a transnational writer in the age of machine translation Ouyang Yu To cut a long story short, it all boils down to the need to go as far away from oneself as possible before one realizes another need to come back to reclaim what has been lost in the process while tying the knot of the opposite ends and merging them into a new transformation.
