This year was my first at Overland, and it’s certainly been an interesting time to start. I’d only been learning the ropes for four weeks in our UWU offices before the whole team started working from home due to the COVID-19 lockdown. But despite the physical separation, it’s been surprisingly easy and natural settling into my new role, and I think that’s a testimony to the incredible community we have around us – of other journals, writers, thinkers, activists and artists who have rallied around us and shown incredible commitment and dedication to solidarity in hard times.
All this is to say, we love what we do. We love that we get to support and give space to emerging and established writers and artists every single day. And here’s the main thing – the most sustainable way we can keep supporting writers and artists is through subscriptions! If you subscribe or renew or donate between 13–20 November, you’ll go into the draw to win a ridiculous amount of prizes, secure four red hot issues of Overland and help us keep doing what we do into 2021.
Tash Seymour, Publicity Officer
So, how does Subscriberthon work? Anyone who subscribes, renews, donates or gives a gift sub over the next week goes into three prize draws – Major Prizes, Daily Prizes and Regional Prizes – for the chance to win some truly terrific prizes, including a week-long writing workshop in Byron Bay, a 7-day Yarra Valley retreat, a 6-month coffee subscription, a state-of-the-art turntable, drinks and vinyl pairings, digital literature workshops, chocolate, coffee, and mountains of books and subscriptions.
Today’s prize
Spill the Beans
An amazing 6-month Craftwork Roasting coffee subscription (2 x 250 bags delivered to your door once a month)
A one-year subscription to Meanjin
A delicious block of plant-based Winnow Chocolate
A UQP tote bag
A collection of UQP titles, including the following:
- Ask Me About the Future by Rebecca Jessen
- The White Girl by Tony Birch
- Throat by Ellen van Neerven
- Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
- Talkin’ Up to the White Woman by Aileen Morton-Robinson
- Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today, edited by Alison Whittaker
Major prizes
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Major Prize One
Write Like a Wombat
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Major Prize Two
Vinyl Revival
What’s in this major prize?
An absolutely state-of-the-art turntable from Vinyl Revival.
Two mind-blowing pairings from Funky Duck Vinyl:
Both Sides of the Sky (Jimi Hendrix) + Blackbilly Sangiovese &
The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East (2LP) + Mountain Goat Steam Ale 6 pack
A one-year subscription to Crikey
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Major Prize Three:
Sail Away
What’s in this major prize?
8 nights in Byron Bay for one of the (in)famous Global Hobo writing workshops, hosted by your experienced writing tutors, Gemma Clarke, Nat Kassel and Mariama Mansfield-Njie!
$300 towards flights and/or transport to Byron Bay
A limited edition Overland tote, with original intricate illustration of solidarity by cartoonist Sam Wallman
An enviable book pack from Scribe, including:
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
Rise & Shine by Patrick Allington
The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
A one-year subscription to Crikey
Regional prizes
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Australian Capital Territory
A one-year print subscription to Voiceworks
The Good Copy ‘Stop. Grammar Time enrolment (online)
A bottle of Noisy Ritual 2019 Heathcote Shiraz
A delicious block of plant-based Winnow Chocolate
A UQP tote bag
These excellent UQP titles:
Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery
Mammoth by Chris Flynn
Just Money by Royce Kurmelovs
Talkin’ up to the white woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Ask Me About the Future by Rebecca Jessen
These excellent Magabala titles:
Guwayu–For All Times, edited by Jeanine Leane
Maar Bidi: Next Generation Black Writing, edited by Elfie Shiosaki and Linda Martin
A collection of Cordite titles, including:
About the Author is Dead by Pascalle Burton
These Wild Houses by Omar Sakr
Breathing Plural by Em König
Yuiquimbiang by Louise Crisp
Dirty Words by Natalie Harkin
Labour and Other Poems by Astrid Lorange
Walk Back Over by Jeanine Leane
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New South Wales
A one-year subscription to The Monthly
Three pottery classes at The Pottery Shed in Surry Hills
Free coffee every day for a month at Bourke Street Bakery
A bottle of Noisy Ritual 2019 Heathcote Shiraz
A one-year subscription to Crikey
A delicious block of plant-based Winnow Chocolate
The following mixed titles:
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn
Oh Happy Day by Carmen Callil
How To Break Up With Friends by Hannah Korrel
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
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Northern Territory
A really cool Print Pals lino kit from Print Safari
A bottle of Noisy Ritual 2019 Heathcote Shiraz
A delicious block of plant-based Winnow Chocolate
One-year membership to NT Writers Centre
A one-year subscription to Crikey
We Are Here, edited by Meg Mundel (Affirm Press)
A collection of Penguin Random House titles, including:
The Spill by Imbi Neeme
Life After Truth by Ceridwen Dovey
The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham
Vida: A Woman For Our Time by Jacqueline Kent
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Queensland
2 x $50 voucher to Avid Reader (to be spent in store or online)
A one-year subscription to Jacobin
A one-year membership to Queensland Writers Centre
A bottle of Noisy Ritual 2019 Heathcote Shiraz
A delicious block of plant-based Winnow Chocolate
A limited edition Overland tote, with original intricate illustration of solidarity by cartoonist Sam Wallman
Craftwork Roasting coffee beans (250g)
The following excellent UQP titles:
Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Born Into This by Adam Thompson
Only Happiness Here by Gabrielle Carey
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South Australia
A one-year subscription to Southerly
Two passes to Laneway Learning (online)
A one-year membership to Writers SA
A bottle of Noisy Ritual 2019 Heathcote Shiraz
A limited edition Overland tote, with original intricate illustration of solidarity by cartoonist Sam Wallman
A one-year subscription to Crikey
The following Recent Work Press titles:
I Don’t Know How that Happened by Oliver Driscoll
Airplane Baby Banana Blanket by Benjamin Dodds
Some Sketchy Notes On Matter by Angela Gardner
Unbelonging by Nathaniel O’Reily
Man-Handled by Melinda Smith
Wild Curious Air by Jill Jones
These fabulous mixed titles:
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
Half Wild by Pip Smith
Just Like You by Nick Hornby
Mother of Pearl by Angela Savage
Things Nobody Knows But Me by Amra Pajalic
The Kowloon Kid: A Hong Kong Childhood by Phil Brown
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Tasmania
A one-year subscription to Island
A delicious block of plant-based Winnow Chocolate
A bottle of Noisy Ritual 2019 Heathcote Shiraz
Craftwork Roasting coffee beans (250g)
A collection of Affirm Press titles, including:
Shirl by Wayne Marshall
Eight Lives by Susan Hurley
Anchor Point by Alice Robinson
Water Colour by Greg French
Barking Dogs by Rebekah Clarkson
My Tidda, My Sister by Marlee Silva (HardieGrant Publishing)
A fabulous collection of Seizure titles, including:
Offshore by Joshua Mostafa
Dark Wave by Lana Guineay
Listurbia by Carly Cappielli
Late Sonata by Bryan Walpert
The Bed-Making Competition by Anna Jackson
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Victoria
Melbourne Djembe West African Dance or Drum class pass x 2
A one-year membership to Writers Victoria
Limited edition Overland t-shirt, with original intricate illustration of solidarity by cartoonist Sam Wallman
Two ground passes to Montsalvat
A fresh fruit and veg box from The Flying Zucchinis, delivered to your door!
These UWAP titles:
Scratchland by Noëlle Janaczewska
Anh and Lucien by Tony Page
Recipe for Risotto by Josephine Clarke
The Weave by Thurston Moore and John Kinsella
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Western Australia
A one-year subscription to How We Roll 100% recycled eco toilet paper
An exciting book pack from Better Read Than Dead, including:
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
Half Wild by Pip Smith
Behind the Enigma: the Authorised History of GCHQ by John Ferris
A one-year subscription to Westerly
A delicious block of plant-based Winnow Chocolate
The following enviable titles from Fremantle Press:
Of Memory and Furniture by Bron Bateman
Small Steps: a Physio in Ethiopia by Julie Sprigg
How to be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer by Georgia Richter and Deborah Hunn
Return Ticket by Jon Doust
Shore Leave by David Whish-Wilson
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New Zealand
An incredible collection of titles from Victoria University Press, including:
Funkhaus by Hinemoana Baker
The Swimmers by Chloe Lane
Monsters in the Garden by Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter
A one-year subscription to Crikey
Limited edition Overland T-shirt, with original intricate illustration of solidarity by cartoonist Sam Wallman
