Published 10 June 201126 March 2012 · Main Posts Announcing the winners of the Meanland blogging competition Editorial team We are thrilled to announce the winners today of the 2011 Meanland blogging competition. At final count, we had over seventy entries and the standard was frankly dismayingly high. In the end we decided that choosing only two was impossible, so we decided to select four excellent bloggers who will each blog once a month for the Meanland project for the rest of this year. The winning essay-posts will be cross-posted on Spike, Overland and, of course, Meanland over the coming fortnight, so keep an eye out. And without further ado, here are the winners: Catherine Moffat John Weldon Diane Simonelli Ali Alizadeh Congratulations to the winners, and a warm and very grateful thank you to the many entrants. Yours, Zora Sanders, Meanjin, and Jacinda Woodhead, Overland. 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 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
