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256 Spring 2024

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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.

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Claire Corbett

Claire Corbett is a writer, author of the novels When We Have Wings and Watch Over Me and a number of short stories, the most recent of which was shortlisted for this year’s Margaret River Press Short Story Award. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Technology, Sydney and is the fiction editor of Overland.

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Published in Overland Issue 235 Winter 2019 · Writing

Fiction editorial

Claire Corbett

Even from the titles it’s clear most of the stories have something to do with water – the perfect image for both the physical world and our subjective states. Its ebb and flow, its clarity or obscurity, images the unconscious, traces the unstable frontiers of our inner and outer worlds.

Published in Overland Issue 214 Autumn 2014 · Culture

The last space waltz?

Claire Corbett

On 21 July 2011, forty-two years and one day after the Apollo 11 Moon landing, NASA’s space shuttle program – a program that had spanned three decades – concluded with the final return trip of Atlantis from the International Space Station (ISS). It felt like the end of an era – and it was.

2 February 201226 March 2012 · Reviews

Jessica Anderson’s ‘Tirra Lirra by the River’

Claire Corbett

Are all Australian novels about finding a home? Discuss. – Anna Krien after judging match one (Kate Grenville’s The Secret River vs Joan London’s Gilgamesh) in the 2011 Meanjin Tournament of Books. Tirra Lirra by the River lost out to My Brilliant Career in match three. From the back cover: Nora Porteous has spent most […]