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.
Dr Daniella Trimboli works between Kaurna Country, Tarntanya/Adelaide, and Wurundjeri Country, Naarm/Melbourne as a Cultural Studies scholar and community arts practitioner. She is a research fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, specialising in multiculturalism and diaspora studies, critical race theory, and migrant creative practice. Her first book, Mediating Multiculturalism: Digital Storytelling and the Everyday Ethnic, was published in 2020 by Anthem Press.
