Published 7 June 201319 June 2013 · Writing / Announcement An opportunity for writers with a disability Editorial team The CAL Connections project seeks to foster greater editorial diversity in Overland through a series of essays by emerging writers from marginalised or under-represented backgrounds. The next phase of the project will draw attention to ableism both in Australian publishing and in society more broadly. Overland invites writers with a disability who are interested in taking part to submit an essay proposal by 17 June 2012. Final essays should be 3000–4000 words and can address any subject that the participant feels relevant. Successful essayists will be paid $1500 upon publication. Further information, including details of how to apply, can be found on the CAL Connections page. 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 3 First published in Overland Issue 228 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 […] 1 First published in Overland Issue 228 23 February 202324 February 2023 · Writing From work to text, and back again: ChatGPT and the (new) death of the author Rob Horning Generative models extinguish the dream that Barthes’s Death of the Author articulates by fulfilling it. Their ‘tissue of signs’ seems less like revolution and more like the fear that AI will create a recursive postmodern nightmare world of perpetual sameness that we will all accept because we no longer remember otherwise or how to create an alternative.
