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.
BJ Thomason has a Bachelor of Arts (Writing) from ECU, a Master of Arts in Writing from Swinburne University, and a PhD from Deakin University. She has won places in several short story and poetry competitions and was highly commended in the national KSP short fiction and science fiction awards twice. She holds a Deakin University publication scholarship from the Faculty of Arts and Education.
