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.
Ainslie Templeton is an artist and writer who has worked across mediums and often in collaboration. Her work has been shown at Autoitalia, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Verge, Incinerator and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. In 2019 she published a poetry book The Tower with Incendium Radical Library Press; her writing has also been published in Minority Report, un Magazine, The Dutch Journal of Gender Studies and Volupté. Ainslie was a founding member of the performance art vehicle Embittered Swish and has worked extensively with visionary Rafaela Pandolfini. Ongoing interests include the interplay between bodies and their representation, cracks in existing social forms, subliminal divisions of labour, transgender allegory, divination and smuggling.