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255 Winter 2024

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This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.

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Adelle Sefton-Rowston

Adelle Sefton-Rowston has a PhD in literature and lectures at Charles Darwin University. She was winner of 2016’s Northern Territory Literary Awards and is vice president of the Northern Territory's Writers' Centre board of management.

Articles by Adelle Sefton-Rowston:

28 March 20175 December 2019 · Writing

‘You’ll be great, but only if you work your arse off.’ An interview with Tony Birch

Tony Birch and Adelle Sefton-Rowston

As I read Ghost River, and the parallel narratives of Birch’s river men – their fear of police and hospitals – alongside Ms Dhu’s death and her family’s fight for justice, I tried to make sense of how to read these stories that are fictional and those that are true. And in the case of Ms Dhu, how to bear a true story that no one in positions of power cared to believe until it was too late.