Published 7 March 201615 March 2016 · News / Writing / Announcement / Reading Callout: guest fiction editor Editorial team Paid guest editorship Every year, Overland publishes several online editions showcasing work by new and emerging writers. An opportunity exists for an emerging editor to work on one of these online fiction editions, to be published in August 2016. Recent guest editors have included writer and academic Rachel Hennessy, writer and Lifted Brow fiction editor Khalid Warsame, writer and Affirm Press editor Kate Goldsworthy, and writer and Slow Canoe co-founder Oliver Driscoll. Ben Walter’s upcoming fiction edition, Overland’s first for 2016, will be published mid-April. The successful applicant will receive a payment of $500 to read a large number of submitted stories and to select four for online publication. The emerging editor will be an Overland subscriber with sufficient familiarity with the journal to curate writing that is appropriate. They will also have a demonstrable interest in contemporary fiction and will be capable of writing a short editorial to introduce the edition. As the fiction will be read and assessed online, the applicant can be based anywhere in Australia or New Zealand. How to apply Please submit a brief CV (up to two pages), and one or two paragraphs as to why you are the right person for the position. Note: editors are welcome to suggest loose themes for their issues. (See, for example, the callout for the upcoming anti-/dis-/un-Australian issue.) Applications for this position close 11.59 pm, Sunday 3 April. 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.
