Published 7 June 2012 · Writing / Main Posts / Culture The Slow Canoe Clare Strahan Overland’s epublishing debut, Women’s Work, was launched in March to a delightful critical response. As Sophie Cunningham said in her launch speech, the stories in this ‘finely wrought’ collection of five short stories by new writers are worth reading over and over again. A steal at $5.95: if you haven’t already made this wise investment, I firmly encourage you to do so now. Three of the writers from Women’s Work will be reading for The Slow Canoe on 7pm Friday 15 June the Schoolhouse Studios (97 Nicholson Street, Abbotsford). The Slow Canoe is a delicious literary evening – an ‘informal night, in the company of cheap drinks’ – where good writers (Kate Holden, Steve Amsterdam, Michael Meehan and Jessica Au, to name a few) come to read their work and share the stories of others, all for $5 entry. I’ll be there, as will Women’s Work’s Georgina Luck, Helen Addison-Smith and Cheryl Adam. Join us. Clare Strahan Clare Strahan is a two-time novelist with Allen & Unwin publishers, long-ago contributing editor to Overland, and teaches in the RMIT Professional Writing & Editing Associate Degree. More by Clare Strahan › 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 28 March 202428 March 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. First published in Overland Issue 228 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.