Published 10 November 202210 November 2022 · Main Posts On the second-last day of Subscriberthon, our favourite editor-duo give you reason #1002 to subscribe to Overland Editorial team Greetings friends, comrades, and our many enemies. We write to you from a state of proud exhaustion. When we took up the reins at Overland just before the pandemic we had no way of knowing the challenge we’d be up for over the next two years. Mobilised by the alignment of that year’s dismal failure of an election and the catastrophic bushfires tearing through the country, we approached our tenure in a spirit of vehement frustration. While we greeted Morrison’s departure with relief, and not a little glee, Labor’s recent budget continues the ingrained vandalism of Australia’s beleaguered arts sector, and demonstrates yet again that the strength of the arts must arise from our collective solidarity, and our capacity to unite, advocate, and allow suffering to speak against the stultifying drone of neoliberal discourse, and the rising threat of fascism in our local and global communities. Overland is proud to continue its long history of resistance and critique in spite of these challenges. Over the coming months, amidst other exciting announcements, we will be uploading our digital archive of 68 years of print publishing, with new works which will speak to and engage with this radical history. These archives are rich with polemics and long-forgotten debates in writing, publishing and the left, and offer witness to the passing of history. As we approach 70 years of publishing, we are eager to share these with you, and draw from these collective memories to think towards the radical possibilities for the future. Subscribing to Overland is a small but direct way of supporting that future, and an act of solidarity with a community of readers and writers who hope for it. In solidarity, Jonathan and Evelyn FYI: The Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize are closing soon Need even more reasons to subscribe? Our Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and Judith Wright Poetry Prize subs are only $56, which means writers get a discounted subscription (4 issues) to Overland, plus entry into the prize of their choice! Entries close November 14. How does Subscriberthon work? If you support the literary pages and spaces we make, show us by subscribing, renewing or donating during this one very important week. Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates by Friday 11 November goes into the running for three truly astounding prize draws – the major prize draw, the daily prize draw and the regional prize draw! An annual subscription – which includes four print issues, the daily online magazine, invitations to subscriber events, discounted entry to Overland competitions, and other opportunities and giveaways – is just $60 full and $45 students/unwaged. Speaking of prizes, we are extremely thankful to our generous friends and supporters who made this year’s Subscriberthon possible! Read about them and their work here. TAKE ME TO THE SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS! Major prizes MAJOR PRIZE ONE What’s in this major prize? The Pentax PC-55 35mm Point and Shoot Camera + 35mm film from FilmNeverDie MAJOR PRIZE TWO What’s in this major prize? A Jordaan Step Through Bike from Lekker Bikes The Thursday Prize: 10 November What’s in this prize? A collection of titles from Brio Books, including: Listurbia by Carly Capielli Late Sonata by Bryan Walpert Water Music by Christine Balint Every Day is Gertie Day by Helen Meany A History of Dreams by Jane Rawson The Orphancorp Trilogy by Marlee Jane Ward A stack of Rabbit back issues A bottle of Monceau non-alcoholic pet nat A $30 voucher for Bookshop by Uro Three A4 and A3 prints from Vietnamese-Australian print artist Hop Dac A stack of back issues from Aniko Press A Clothing the Gaps reusable coffee cup Regional prizes AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY What’s in this prize? A $50 voucher for The Book Cow bookshop A 1-year membership for ACT Writers Centre A selection of titles from Ultimo Press, including: Cold Coast by Robyn Mundy In the Time of the Manaroans by Miro Bilbrough Home and Other Hiding Places by Jack Ellis My Heart is a Little Wild Thing by Nigel Featherstone Pain and Privilege by Sophie Smith Brother Alive by Zain Khalid My Friend Fox by Heidi Everett When Things are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent Love & Virtue by Diana Reid Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl A Kind of Magic, by Anna Spargo-Ryan A collection of Giramondo titles, including: Sun Music by Judith Beveridge The Dancer by Evelyn Juers Bon and Lesley by Shaun Prescott How to Be Between by Bastian Fox Phelan NEW SOUTH WALES What’s in this prize? 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A collection of titles from Fremantle Press, including: Paradise (Point of Transmission) by Andrew Sutherland Blue Wren by Bron Bateman Second Fleet Baby by Nadia Rhook Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly Songs Reimagined curated by Mark Smith, Neil A White and Jock Serong Try Not to Think of a Pink Elephant: Stories of OCD by Martin Ingle The Glass House by Brooke Dunnell Eye of a Rook by Josephine Taylor A 1-year subscription to Westerly A $30 voucher for Bookshop by Uro A bottle of Monceau non-alcoholic pet nat An Overland t-shirt NEW ZEALAND What’s in this prize? A $25 Unity Books voucher An Introduction to Creative Course Online (6-week course) with a personal one-on-one tutor from The Creative Hub, valued at $NZ 496 A 10-trip pass to Auckland Writers Festival ’23 (Digital) TAKE ME TO THE SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS! 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 25 May 202326 May 2023 · Main Posts The ‘Chinese question’ and colonial capitalism in New Gold Mountain Christy Tan SBS’s New Gold Mountain sets out to recover the history of the Gold Rush from the marginalised perspective of Chinese settlers but instead reinforces the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty. Although celebrated for its multilingual script and diverse representation, the mini-TV series ignores how the settlement of Chinese migrants and their recruitment into colonial capitalism consolidates the ongoing displacement of First Nations peoples. First published in Overland Issue 228 15 February 202322 February 2023 · Main Posts Self-translation and bilingual writing as a transnational writer in the age of machine translation Ouyang Yu To cut a long story short, it all boils down to the need to go as far away from oneself as possible before one realizes another need to come back to reclaim what has been lost in the process while tying the knot of the opposite ends and merging them into a new transformation.
