Published 24 February 200910 August 2009 · Main Posts Jeff Sparrow Friends and interlocutors VIC Writers’ Centre ACT Writers’ Centre NSW Writers’ Centre NT Writers’ Centre QLD Writers’ Centre SA Writers’ Centre TAS Writers’ Centre WA State Literature Centre Aduki Independent Press Anastomoo New Writing Cottonmouth Cordite Fabians Fellowship of Australian Writers Going Down Swinging Harvest Heat Magazine Island Larvatus Prodeo Letter Vox Leftwrites Meanjin New International Bookshop Page Seventeen Paradise Anthology Professor John McLaren Sleepers SnUfft SPUNC State Library of Victoria Summer Read The Red Room Company 3CR community radio 3RRR community radio Two-up Publishing Vignette Press Voiceworks (Express Media) Vulgar Press Wet Ink WordPlay Writers’ Resource Centre Write Scene Workers Online Befriend us on Facebook Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, broadcaster and Walkley award-winning journalist. He is a former columnist for Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at radio station 3RRR, and a past editor of Overland. His most recent book is a collaboration with Sam Wallman called Twelve Rules for Strife (Scribe). He works at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. More by Jeff Sparrow › 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 20 March 20262 April 2026 · Main Posts Final results of the 2025 Judith Wright Poetry Prize Editorial team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize seeks outstanding poetry from new and emerging writers. This year’s judges, Shastra Deo, Harry Reid and […] 20 March 202620 March 2026 · Main Posts Final results of the 2025 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize Editorial team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize seeks outstanding original short fiction of up to 3000 words themed loosely around the notion […]