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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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Bonnie Mary Liston

Bonnie Mary Liston is a struggling writer who lives in Tasmania. She has a BA in Ancient History, History, and Linguistics, a Master’s in Journalism, Media, and Communications, and informal qualifications from her nervous loved ones as ‘someone who reads too much about murder.’

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18 December 201911 March 2020 · Feminism

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your bush

Bonnie Mary Liston

All human bodies naturally grow hair pretty much everywhere in varying qualities of thickness and presumably for a brief glorious period between the evolution of the modern homo sapiens and the invention of the patriarchy we all accepted that and let women chill out with their fuzz out for five whole seconds.

2 July 201928 August 2019 · youth

The wildness of girlhood

Bonnie Mary Liston

There is a period in many little girls’ lives, around the age of ten, where they go completely wild. Not in the sense of Girls Gone Wild, which depressingly clogs up the search results, but in the most natural sense of the word – feral and free.