2 October 201310 October 2013 Writing The Overland podcast: Maxine Beneba Clarke Eloise Oxer For something a little different, join Overland editorial intern Eloise Oxer for a short series of author-interview podcasts. Each month we’ll chat with one of our contributing authors about the ideas behind their pieces, their writing practice and listen in as they spoil us with readings of their featured work. To launch our podcast series we talk with writer, poet and performer Maxine Beneba Clarke about everything from winning the 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript to juggling the demands of a three-book deal while raising small children. Enjoy and watch this space for the next audio instalment. (Many thanks to Chris Chapple for the music.) Eloise Oxer Eloise Oxer is an actor, editor, writer and rambler and a long-time Overland fiction reader. More by Eloise Oxer 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 6 April 202231 May 2022 Writing What happens when authors stop listening to their editors Jessica Stewart When I moved into a second career in editing and publishing, friends told me that working as an editor might temper my love of books—that a professional eye might spy previously unnoticed flaws. I dismissed this, but they were right. Before, if a book left me restless, dissatisfied, annoyed, I would simply close it and move on. Now, I know what is wrong, why I, the reader, feel short-changed. 3 First published in Overland Issue 228 22 November 202131 January 2022 Writing Precarious words Jennifer Mills Eight years ago, I wrote a short piece for Overland called ‘Pay the Writers’. I was fed up with being asked to work for ‘exposure’. It was a time when a lot of writing work was moving online, and this work was often unpaid. Writers were at risk of losing our incomes entirely. If anything needed some exposure, it was the working conditions of freelancers.
