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 11 December 202411 December 2024 · Writing The trouble Ken Bolton’s poems make for me, specifically, at the moment Linda Marie Walker These poems doom me to my chair and table and computer. I knew it was all downhill from here, at this age, but it’s been confirmed. My mind remains town-size, hemmed in by pine plantations and kanite walls and flat swampy land and hills called “mountains”. 17 July 202417 July 2024 · Writing “What is it that remains of us now”: witnessing the war on Palestine with Suheir Hammad Dashiell Moore The flame of her poetry scorches the states of exceptions that allow individual and state-sponsored violence to continue, unjustified, and unhistoricised. As we engage with her work, we are reminded that "chronic survival" is not merely an act of enduring but a profound declaration of existence.
