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.
Chris Rodley is a writer for new media and a PhD candidate in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. His research is examining the impact of big data on poetics, with a focus on how the ability to find and remix digital information in real time is transforming relationships between texts, writers and readers. He is co-author of a book chapter in The Future of Writing (2014), with Andrew Burrell, and has also written for Guardian Australia and BuzzFeed.
