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.
Andy Butler is a Filipino-Australian writer, curator, and is the administrator for Melbourne Writers Festival. His writing has appeared in Overland, Art+Australia and PEN Melbourne Quarterly. He is a participant in the 2017 Emerging Cultural Leaders program at Footscray Community Arts Centre, and is researching and curating an exhibition on Whiteness for BLINDSIDE, through their Emerging Curator Mentorship program. He tweets at @AndyRay87.
