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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Adam Ouston

Adam Ouston is a writer, academic and musician working in Hobart. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Island, Voiceworks, Islet Online and The Review of Australian Fiction. He has recently completed a PhD on mortality and identity in the travel writings of Robert Dessaix. He is the vocalist for the band All Fires and tries to maintain a blog at Adam Ouston.

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16 January 20144 February 2014 · Writing

Travelling circuits: on ‘emerging’ writers & festivals

Adam Ouston

My main problem, I say, trying to redirect things, is that festivals in general – not just this one – promote values handed ‘down’ to us from mainstream publishing, by which ‘emerging’ is equivalent to ‘failed’ or ‘not yet successful’, and by which ‘failure’ is something to be avoided at all costs.