Published 17 December 201513 January 2016 · Writing / Announcement Writers, we want your fiction! Editorial team Overland is looking for fiction for a special anti-/dis-/un-Australian issue to be edited by Ben Walter and published in April 2016. About the edition, Ben writes: For this special online fiction issue of Overland, I am calling for anti-/dis-/un-Australian stories. I think, perhaps contentiously, that many Australian short stories suffer from a lack of ambition. They tend to be characterised by a flat, minimalistic realism. The events take place over four, maybe six hours. The relationships between people are not so good – and then they are very meaningful. And people dance on the beach in the middle of the night. I will be looking to publish stories that embrace a distinctive style or voice, that are not terrified of adornment or a little pizzazz. Wordplay. Humour. Experimental forms, non-linear structures, fragmented sentences, abstractions. Anything, just as long as it doesn’t sound like the winner of a moderately prestigious competition. I’d be so grateful if you could send stories like this to me. About the guest editor Ben Walter is a Tasmanian writer of lyrical fiction and poetry. His stories have recently appeared in Westerly, Island, The Canary Press and The Lifted Brow. He was the runner-up in the 2014 Jim Hamilton Award for an unpublished novel manuscript, and has just been shortlisted in the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes for the second time. He’s on Twitter as Ben Walter. Submission details Online contributors for this edition will be paid $120 per story. Entries for the special issue close 11.59pm, Sunday 31 January 2016. The special anti-/dis-/un-Australian issue will be available online in April. Submit your story Under the ‘For online’ category on the fiction submissions page, or read one of the previous special issues edited by Oliver Driscoll, SJ Finn, Emily Laidlaw, Miranda Camboni, Kate Goldsworthy, Khalid Warsame or Rachel Hennessy. 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 17 July 202417 July 2024 · Writing “What is it that remains of us now”: witnessing the war on Palestine with Suheir Hammad Dashiell Moore The flame of her poetry scorches the states of exceptions that allow individual and state-sponsored violence to continue, unjustified, and unhistoricised. As we engage with her work, we are reminded that "chronic survival" is not merely an act of enduring but a profound declaration of existence. 16 February 202419 February 2024 · Announcement Statement of the Board of Overland Literary Journal Editorial team We, the Board of Overland literary journal, make the following statement in support of Editors-in-chief Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk and the entire Overland staff. We are a diverse Board made up of writers, unionists, lawyers, academics, activists, and arts industry workers. Our Board includes First Nations peoples as well as members of Australia’s Jewish community.
