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.
Cassandra Pybus is nonfiction writer who lives in Tasmania. She is the prizewinning author of a dozen books published in Australia, United States, Britain and Canada and she has published extensively on slavery and the founding of the American Republic including Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and their Global Quest for Liberty (Beacon Press, Boston 2006).