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.
Amber Gwynne is a researcher, writer and editor based in Meanjin/Brisbane. Public servant by day and lecturer by night, in 2018 she completed a PhD in media studies at The University of Queensland investigating how readers with a history of depression choose and use self-help books, which received a Dean’s Award for Outstanding HDR Theses. She blogs at www.ladyberg.com and tweets intermittently at @AmberGwynne.
