Published in Overland Issue 211.5: Winter fiction · Uncategorized Issue 211.5: winter fiction Emily Laidlaw Contents Emily Laidlaw − Editorial Fiction Kristin Hannaford The direction of sunlight Melissa Howard Other people’s daughters Kelli Lonergan If friends were lovers too Samuel Rutter The sort of things he might say about me Emily Laidlaw Emily Laidlaw is an editor and writer based in Melbourne. Her articles and reviews appear regularly in The Big Issue and Readings Monthly and on Killings. She is a former member of Voiceworks’ editorial committee and currently works as marketing coordinator at Kill Your Darlings. More by Emily Laidlaw › 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 15 April 202615 April 2026 · Climate politics The $67 billion climate betrayal: how Australia’s record fossil fuel subsidies fund global destruction Noa Wynn The contradictions aren't failures of implementation. They're the predictable result of a political system that has decided fossil fuel profits matter more than climate stability, more than the Great Barrier Reef, more than Pacific Islander lives, and more than the future habitability of the planet. 13 April 2026 · Disability The proletarianisation of disability support work: workers’ perspectives on the NDIS Nick Crowley Support workers, rather than creating objects, create a caring relationship. The scrupulous observance of organisational policies and ‘best practice’ codes is not sufficient to create such a relationship. This can only be created when workers take the time to understand their clients and build trusting, authentic, equal relationships with them.
