Published 24 May 201330 May 2013 · Writing Congratulations Maxine Beneba Clarke! Editorial team Congrats to long-time Overland contributor and editor of our recent spoken word edition Maxine Beneba Clarke for taking home the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript at last night’s launch of the Emerging Writers’ Festival. A talented and prolific poet, fiction writer and essayist, Maxine won for her short story collection Foreign Soil, which ‘takes us from Footscray to Kingston via Villawood and London in tales of the dispossessed, the newly arrived, those seeking refuge and those realising they are in need of it’. Congratulations again, Maxine! Read more of Maxine’s work at Slam up. 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 5 February 202417 February 2024 · Writing Here and now: our call for justice and liberation Tzedek Collective Our community is one of action and activism, informed by histories and imaginings of Jewish and other resistance. In our anticolonial work, we are explicitly anti-Zionist and work for a free Palestine. We take on this work not to centre or salvage Judaism and Jewishness, but to oppose settler colonialism in all its forms, and to acknowledge the specific and necessary role of Jewish anti-Zionists in opposing violence done in our names. 3 26 May 20238 June 2023 · Writing garramilla/Darwin Lulu Houdini We sit in East Point Reserve and look at how the gidjaas, green ants, make globe-like homes out of the leaves — connected edges with fibrous tissue that I later learn is faithful silk. Safe inside. Why isn’t it safe outside? I pick up the plastic around this circular lake cause this is the way […]
