Published 22 December 2009 · Main Posts the big sleep Karen Pickering It is a truth universally acknowledged that Lou Swinn and Zoe Dattner were put on this earth to publish the best writing they came across, for our collective reading pleasure. Sleepers Publishing is their labour of love and in the last year has published not only the Age Book of the Year but also our very own Kalinda Ashton’s debut novel, The Danger Game. Of course, they also publish the exquisite Sleepers Almanac, a collection of which has been offered up as another prize in our Subscriberthon draw. So who won? Julie Chevalier Lucky lady. Karen Pickering More by Karen Pickering › 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 16 August 202416 August 2024 · Poetry pork lullaby Panda Wong but an alive pig / roots in the soil /turning it over / with its snout / softening the ground / is this a hymn 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body.