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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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Alex Cothren

Alexander Cothren was born in Washington State, USA, and now lives in Adelaide, Australia. 'Discomfort example' is his third published work. On Twitter he is @cothren_alex

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Published in Overland Issue 250 Autumn 2023 · Fiction

Ocean Paradise

Alex Cothren

AM Gaming Trade Reports. WE HAVE A MASSIVE WEEKLY TARGET – 1.36M TURNOVER TO BEAT LAST YEAR. ITS TAX TIME SO PEOPLE WILL HAVE MORE MONEY TO SPEND. BE OUT THERE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. DO WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO TO KEEP PEOPLE IN THE ROOM AND PLAYING! —Manager

Published in Overland Issue 247 Winter 2022 · Fiction

Fiction | Australians at work

Alex Cothren

Refugee Football League trial match at Linkbelt Oval, Nauru. Young men in official RFL Draft guernseys play with ferocious intensity, a cloud of phosphate dust billowing from the grassless surface. Leaning on the rusted boundary fence, Dirk is just one of the dozens of talent scouts closely watching the action.

Published in Overland Issue 222.5 Autumn fiction ·

Discomfort example

Alex Cothren

Remember the thin, fetid mattress you lay on as hunger gnashed in your gut. A voice had whispered your name in the dark. Through the bars of your cell there came a hand, and in the hand, a packet of Ritz crackers.