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Published in Overland Issue 255 Winter 2024 ·

Issue 255

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20 May 202420 May 2024 · Editorial statement

Concerning open letters

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Overland is aware of reports regarding the addition of a false signature on a petition we’ve published in support of Australian University students’ right to protest—what others might call their freedom of speech. We have since deleted the name of a journalist at the request of the ABC, following the publication of defamatory statements by […]

Published in Overland Issue 253 Summer 2023/4 ·

Issue 253

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16 February 202419 February 2024 · Announcement

Statement of the Board of Overland Literary Journal

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We, the Board of Overland literary journal, make the following statement in support of Editors-in-chief Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk and the entire Overland staff. We are a diverse Board made up of writers, unionists, lawyers, academics, activists, and arts industry workers. Our Board includes First Nations peoples as well as members of Australia’s Jewish community.

Published in Overland Issue 252 Spring 2023 ·

Issue 252

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3 November 202331 October 2024 · News

Friends and Sponsors

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Thank you to our sponsors for their generous contributions to the 2024 Overland Subscriberthon!

Published in Overland Issue 251 Winter 2023 ·

Issue 251

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Issue 250

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Published in Overland Issue 249 Summer 2022 ·

Issue 249

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23 January 202325 January 2023 · Announcement

An announcement

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In 2023, as we look towards our 250th edition and prepare for Overland’s 70th anniversary, we wish to make a tangible commitment to improve working conditions for our community, and ensure that whatever funding challenges we might face as a left-wing not-for-profit publisher are not passed on to our contributors. As such, we are proud to become the first publishers to sign onto the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance’s Freelance Charter, which affirms the rights and protections of freelance contributors.

19 January 202320 February 2023 · open letter

An open letter to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens from South Australia’s Arts Community

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The arts community advocates for change through the work we make and the stories we share. Many of us have or are developing environmental impact policies. We cannot accept sponsorship arrangements that are so out of keeping with our values. We call on the Botanic Gardens to end the sponsorship agreement with Santos immediately and to develop a comprehensive policy to ensure that fossil fuel companies will never again benefit from an association with our beautiful Museum or any aspect of the Gardens.

Published in Overland Issue 248 Spring 2022 ·

Issue 248

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11 November 202211 November 2022 · Main Posts

On the last day of Subscriberthon, our amazing online editor gives you one last (very good) reason to subscribe

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What's in store for the last day of Subscriberthon?

10 November 202210 November 2022 · Main Posts

On the second-last day of Subscriberthon, our favourite editor-duo give you reason #1002 to subscribe to Overland

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What's in store for the second-last day of Subscriberthon?

9 November 202210 November 2022 · Main Posts

On the 6th day of Subscriberthon Overland’s most important members get to have their say

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What's in store for Subscriberthon day 6?

8 November 20228 November 2022 · Main Posts

Even more reasons to subscribe to Overland in the words of our fiction readers team

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What's in store for Subscriberthon day 5??

7 November 20228 November 2022 · Main Posts

**Reason #3 (and 4,5,6) to subscribe to Overland, in the words of …**

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What's in store for Subscriberthon Day 4?

5 November 20228 November 2022 · Main Posts

Reason #2 to subscribe to Overland in the words of our Head of Operations, Stephanie Holt

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What's in store for Subscriberthon Day Two and Three?

Published in Overland Issue 247 Winter 2022 ·

Issue 247

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4 November 20227 November 2022 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2022 Prizes

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Welcome to the 2022 Overland Subscriberthon! If you support the literary pages and spaces we make, show us by subscribing, renewing or donating during this one very important week.

30 October 202230 October 2022 · Prizes

Final results of the 2021 Nakata Brophy Prize

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20 October 202220 October 2022 · Prizes

Announcing the Nakata Brophy 2021 shortlist

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The Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia. The prize, now its sixth year, awards $5000 to one Indigenous writer 30 years or younger and $500 to two runner-up entries. First place also receives a writing residency at Trinity College and publication in Overland's print magazine.

8 September 202220 September 2022 · open letter

Authors stand with Readings booksellers for a living wage

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Readings can afford to pay a living wage to its workers. This is a multi-store business that, until 2021, posted profits for 25 consecutive years, and which in the past year has spent considerable amounts of money opening both a new store branch and a warehouse, without consulting workers. As authors, we stand in solidarity with the booksellers at Readings in their fight for fair pay and conditions.

Published in Overland Issue 246 Autumn 2022 ·

Issue 246

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Published in Overland Issue 245 Summer 2021 ·

Issue 245

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29 April 202211 May 2022 · Main Posts

Final Results of the 2021 Judith Wright Poetry Prize

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Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize seeks outstanding poetry from new and emerging writers. This year’s stellar judges, Grace Yee, Keri Glastonbury and Toby Fitch (who is also Overland’s poetry editor) read over 600 entries before selecting a shortlist of nine outstanding works. The judges […]

29 April 20228 May 2022 · Main Posts

Final Results of the 2021 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

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Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize seeks powerful and original short fiction of up to 3000 words themed loosely around the notion of ‘travel’. This year’s wonderful judges, Julie Koh, Alice Robinson and Mykaela Saunders, rose to the challenging task of selecting shortlist of eight pieces […]

19 April 20228 May 2022 · Main Posts

Announcing the 2021 Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist

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Established in 2007, Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets is supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. Entrants must have no more than one collection of poems published under their own name. This year, the major prize is $6000, and second and third prize is $2000 and $1000 respectively. All three poets […]

19 April 20228 May 2022 · Main Posts

Announcing the 2021 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize shortlist

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Supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation and named after the late novelist and poet, Neilma Gantner, the Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize seeks moving, powerful and original short fiction of up to 3000 words themed loosely around the notion of ‘travel’. The competition is open to all writers living in Australia and elsewhere, and at any […]

Published in Overland Issue 244 Spring 2021 ·

Issue 244

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26 November 202129 November 2021 · Main Posts

Hello from the other side | Subscriberthon 2021

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For our final plea we have an update from one of our resident dogs, Elsie: It’s been a long year for everyone and I, Elsie the official online magazine dog, am no exception. How long was it? I went from looking like this: To looking like this: It’s been a long year, yet we carry […]

25 November 202129 November 2021 · Main Posts

A new home for avant-garde poetry

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Since 1954, Overland has been at the avant-garde of poetry publishing in Australia, featuring aesthetically and politically challenging work by a diverse range of poets, while unearthing new poets. In more recent years, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets and the Nakata Brophy Prize have furthered Overland’s commitment to fostering […]

24 November 202129 November 2021 · Main Posts

Making room for the political and critical | Subscriberthon 2021

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By subscribing to Overland, you’re also supporting our daily online magazine. This has a different rhythm to its print sibling: it has more immediacy, and usually makes room for shorter pieces, but it aspires to the same critical and political outlook. It also allows us to create more opportunities for emerging writers to get published, […]

23 November 202124 November 2021 · Main Posts

From the archives | Subscriberthon 2021

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As one of the nation’s oldest progressive literary institutions, Overland has been part of the intellectual and creative fabric and output of Melbourne for over half a century. Overland was first established in 1954, under the auspices of the Realist Writers Group in Melbourne, with Melbournian writer and activist Stephen Murray-Smith as the first editor-in-chief. […]

22 November 202129 November 2021 · Subscriberthon 2021

A billion windows

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Ludwig Wittgenstein said ‘if a cat could speak, we could not understand her.’ Well, words to that effect. A way of saying that without experiencing a world of sensual life, what could words mean? My human says no, the quote is if a lion could speak, we could not understand him. But honestly what’s the […]

21 November 202129 November 2021 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2021: The weekend edition

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Hello friends, Sit back and relax. The weekend edition of Subscriberthon’s got you sorted. For your reading pleasure we have Dženana Vucic’s aching memoir ‘A teology of folding, and of dying‘, Mykaela Saunders’ Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize 2020 winning piece ‘Choice cuts‘ and our favourite cartoonist Sam Wallman’s take on swimming in the Yarra. We’ve also created our very […]

Published in Overland Issue Queensland Poetry Awards 2020 ·

Queensland Poetry Awards 2020

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19 November 202129 November 2021 · Prizes

Subscriberthon 2021: Prizes

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Welcome to the 2021 Overland Subscriberthon – the week where we share great literature and give away prizes every day!

19 November 202129 November 2021 · Prizes

Subscriberthon 2021: Friends and sponsors

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Thank you 2021 sponsors! You’ve made a huge impact on the future of literature in Australia.

19 November 202129 November 2021 · Prizes

Welcome friends, to the 2021 Overland Subscriberthon

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Overland is unique in Australian writing in its equal dedication towards formal excellence and incisive argument, and towards foregrounding and amplifying politically marginalised and therefore politically necessary voices. We remain honoured and inspired by the opportunity of this experience, and we hope you come with us on its next and brighter chapter.

Published in Overland Issue 243 Winter 2021 ·

Issue 243

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Published in Overland Issue 242 Autumn 2021 ·

Guest artist for 242: Stephanie Ochona

#BanSpitHoods collective and Editorial team

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29 July 202125 August 2021 · Prizes

Final results of the 2021 Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature

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Congratulations to our incredible authors, and a special congratulations to our winner!

14 July 202110 August 2021 · Cartoons

Our words are in their hands: authors for Better Read Than Dead workers

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The union campaign at Better Read Than Dead is a litmus test for Australian literature and for retail working conditions across the continent. The publishing industry – of which bookselling is one part – likes to congratulate itself on its social progressivism, but this means nothing without material conditions for workers in the industry that grant those workers job security and dignity of life.

8 July 20215 August 2021 · open letter

An open letter against racism

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The signatories of this letter oppose the attacks on ‘critical race theory’. At a time of mounting white supremacism across the Global North, these attacks are a stark reminder that we need more critical thinking about race and we resolve to continue this work across a range of diverse fields and disciplines. We call on institutions of research and education in Australia to stand with students, scholars, and educators whose work is coming under attack and to support their vital work.

Published in Overland Issue 242 Autumn 2021 ·

Issue 242

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26 June 2021 · News

Announcing the 2021 Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature shortlist

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Thank you to everyone who entered the prize. We received almost five hundred submissions across all categories, and our judges Jeanine Leane, Justin Clemens and Elena Gomez were incredibly impressed by the quality of submissions. Congratulations to our fantastic shortlisted writers.

25 May 202126 June 2021 · News

Announcing the 2021 Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature longlist

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In 2020, Overland literary journal received funding from Create Victoria to help sustain our organisation and encourage excellence in a struggling arts community. In honour of the late Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Overland designated a portion of these funds for a new prize rewarding excellence and generosity in Australian writing, irrespective of form and genre.

Published in Overland Issue 241 Summer 2020 ·

Issue 241

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Published in Overland Issue 240.5: a special digital fiction edition ·

240.5: a special digital fiction edition

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12 March 202122 April 2021 · Events

Final Results of the 2020 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

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Overland and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are thrilled to announce the entries that placed in the 2020 Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize! This year’s star judges, Mirandi Riwoe, Jeanine Leane and Wayne Marshall, rose to the challenging task of selecting a shortlist of eight pieces from over 500 entries, before narrowing the result down to three exceptional stories.

12 March 202122 April 2021 · Events

Final Results of the 2020 Judith Wright Poetry Prize

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This year’s stellar judges, Bonny Cassidy, Bella Li, Anne-Marie Te Whiu and Toby Fitch (who is also Overland’s poetry editor), read over 900 entries before selecting a shortlist of just eight outstanding works – including poetry from emerging poets such as Sara Saleh, Harry Reid and Declan Fry. The judges then chose four unforgettable poems to place 1st, 2nd and 3rd in this year's prize. The competition was so fierce this year that the judges chose two poems to share 3rd place!

9 March 202116 April 2021 · Main Posts

Announcing the 2020 Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist

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After careful consideration, the judges have selected eight outstanding poems to form this year’s Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist. Congratulations to the following poets.

9 March 202122 March 2021 · Main Posts

Announcing the 2020 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize shortlist

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We’d also like to recognise the hard work of this year’s dedicated judges: Mirandi Riwoe, Jeanine Leane and Wayne Marshall. They had the challenging task of reading, considering and narrowing over 500 entries down to a shortlist of eight outstanding pieces. Congratulations to these eight writers who form the shortlist for the 2020 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize.

Published in Overland Issue Fiction in Lockdown ·

Fiction in Lockdown

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Published in Overland Issue Reflections on Ngaga-dji: Listening for Change ·

Reflections on Ngaga-Dji: Listening for Change

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20 November 202023 November 2020 · Prizes

It’s the final day to show us some love & win some prizes (and we promise not to mention Subscriberthon for 350 more days)

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Why subscribe? Because this year we survived a pandemic and ruthless cuts to arts funding, but we're going to need your help to survive (and thrive) in 2021. Because we will continue to do whatever we can to make sure that all voices are heard, to resist and destroy the systems that deny them, and to drown out the drone of the status quo. Because there's nothing more satisfying than the first time you open a new issue of Overland and you can smell, touch and hear the pages and pages of hope, fury, joy and revolution printed in neatly set, size 12 font.

19 November 202023 November 2020 · Prizes

An urgent message from the most important members of the Overland team

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Hello! My name is Dingo, but everyone calls me Mirri. I was born in country NSW last summer and my parents are Jon and Evie and they do the stuff with the words. This year I moved to Melbourne so they could work at Overland and buy me lots of biscuits and toys. They explained that they won’t always be working at our house and next year I’ll be going to daycare or visiting them at the office, but that’s alright because I’m an intern and I have a very special job – I’m the one that sniffs all of the journals.

18 November 202023 November 2020 · Prizes

Subscribe to step into a different, more humane world

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Over the years, Overland has given me the same solace as a writer and as a reader. To pick up a print issue is to step in a different, more humane world. That’s what radicalism has always meant to me: the exercise of social imagination so that we can think of the world differently.I have been associated with the Overland for the best part of a decade, and it felt from the very beginning like I had found my people.

17 November 202021 January 2021 · literary culture

Blind judging and authenticity: an editorial statement

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In truth, we expected little engagement with the question itself, but hoped it might encourage writers to think actively about their proximity to the stories they tell. Our process cannot reverse circumstances of exploitation, appropriation, silencing or other mistreatments of the literatures and experiences of the oppressed and marginalised, nor do we feel it conflates these with all other acts of literary imagination.

17 November 202023 November 2020 · Prizes

Subscribe to resist the era of fake news, post-truth and terminal capitalism

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This is the kind of fiction that is so exciting to publish in Overland, seeing what might be familiar to us in Australian life as strange and new, with bright and strange colours. ‘Crabs’ is one of the main reasons I wanted to edit fiction for Overland – to discover a writer so exhilarating, with new things to say about Australia. Overland is, I believe, publishing some great new fiction that is just as electrifying, taking us in new directions.

16 November 202023 November 2020 · Main Posts

Subscribe to help us continue a legacy that began 66 years ago

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If I was to not be working for Overland, I would still subscribe. If I was not a practicing poet, writer, critic, I would still subscribe. Even if I felt I didn’t need some guidance on the nuances of racial politics, queer politics, gender politics, international affairs, neocolonialism, Aboriginal rights, the labour struggle, climate change et al., I would still subscribe to Overland. Even if I hated the anaphoric propaganda of this very appeal to subscribe to Overland, I would still subscribe. Even if I could end the plague, I would still subscribe.

14 November 202023 November 2020 · Main Posts

Subscribe for more weekends of reading without distraction

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All this is to say, we love what we do. We love that we get to support and give space to emerging and established writers and artists every single day. And here's the main thing – the most sustainable way we can keep supporting writers and artists is through subscriptions! If you subscribe or renew or donate between 13–20 November, you'll go into the draw to win a ridiculous amount of prizes, secure four red hot issues of Overland and help us keep doing what we do into 2021.

13 November 202023 November 2020 · Prizes

Welcome friends, to the 2020 Overland Subscriberthon

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Those of us in Melbourne have been pushed far beyond our limits by one of the most punishing lockdowns in the world, and so many of the rest of us have had a year of unique deprivation, uncertainty, and anxiety. But despite all of that, our first year as co-editors of this unique and necessary journal has been a rich and inspiring experience. We have had the opportunity to work with and support an incomparable cohort of brilliant, searching and provocative writers across a stunning breadth of forms and subjects.

Published in Overland Issue 239 Winter 2020 ·

Issue 239

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9 October 2020 · Prizes

Final results of the 2020 Nakata Brophy Prize

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The Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia. Sponsored by the University of Melbourne’s Trinity College, the prize alternates each year between fiction and poetry; this year’s prize is for the best poem (up to 88 lines) by an Indigenous writer under 30. First place is $5000, publication in Overland’s […]

6 August 20209 October 2020 · Events

Announcing The Nakata Brophy Prize 2020 shortlist

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We’d like to thank everyone who entered this year for their thoughtful and incredible work. We received an impressive and high quality range of poems, and each and every writer deserves congratulations. We'd also like to thank our judges, Evelyn Araluen and Gayle Allan (Trinity College), for their hard work and dedication to the decision-making process.

Published in Overland Issue 238 Autumn 2020 ·

Issue 238

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11 May 202011 June 2020 · open letter

Graduate student workers support NTEU Day of Action: fund our universities, no job cuts, universal and automatic extensions for HDR students!

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We, the undersigned, are graduate student workers, support the NTEU National Day of Action on 21 May to demand for universal extensions and in support of higher education jobs and courses.

Published in Overland Issue 237.5 Autumn Fiction ·

Issue 237.5: Autumn Fiction

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6 March 202019 March 2020 · News

Final Results of the 2019 Judith Wright Poetry Prize

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Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize seeks outstanding poetry from new and emerging writers. This year’s wonderful judges, Ellen van Neerven, Michael Farrell and Toby Fitch (who is also Overland’s poetry editor), read over 750 entries before selecting a shortlist of just nine outstanding works.

6 March 202019 March 2020 · News

Final Results of the 2019 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

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Overland and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are thrilled to announce the entries that placed in the Overland 2019 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize! This year's star judges, Hannah Kent, Joshua Mostafa and Margo Lanagan, rose to the challenging task of selecting a shortlist of eight pieces from over 450 entries, before narrowing the shortlist down to three exceptional stories.

25 February 20206 March 2020 · News

Announcing the 2019 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize Shortlist

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Thank you to everyone who entered the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, the quality of the work we received was very high this year! We'd also like to recognise the hard work of this year's incredibly dedicated judges: Hannah Kent, Joshua Mostafa and Margo Lanagan. They had the challenging task of reading, considering and narrowing over 450 entries down to a shortlist of eight outstanding pieces.

25 February 202011 March 2020 · News

Announcing the 2019 Judith Wright Poetry Prize Shortlist

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In one of the most successful years in the history of the prize, we received over 750 entries from poets all around the world. We'd like to thank all the entrants for their brave, disruptive and original work, and our 2019 judges, Ellen van Neerven, Michael Farrell and Toby Fitch, for their hard work and dedication to the decision-making process.

19 December 201911 March 2020 · Fiction

Your summer writing challenge

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Hope you didn't have any plans this summer, because we need you to clear your schedule for our first special fiction edition of 2020.

Published in Overland Issue 237 Summer 2019 ·

Issue 237

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4 December 201919 December 2019 · Prizes

Fair Australia Prize 2019: the winners

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Announcing the final results for the ten categories of the 2019 Fair Australia Prize. Hearty congratulations to all!

26 November 201919 December 2019 · Events

‘The time to strike is now!’ An end-of-year debate

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6 pm Friday 6 December ETU Ballroom, Trades Hall, Melbourne Overland, the United Workers Union, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and the Migrant Workers Centre are hosting a lively end-of-year debate on the contention: ‘The time to strike is now!’

15 November 201922 November 2019 · Announcement

Final day to show us some love & win prizes (and we promise not to mention Subscriberthon for 350 more days)

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This is it: one final appeal to you, dear reader, to put your spare $$ where your love is and take out or renew a subscription sometime in the next few hours. In return, you’ll go into the prize draw for all our jaw-dropping prizes!

14 November 201922 November 2019 · Announcement

2,020 reasons to subscribe to Overland

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1. Because you want a future where Overland exists. As we explained earlier this week, due to arts cuts, we have to make up an $80,000 shortfall each year in order to keep doing all the things we do. 2. Because you’re switched on! (Did we mention that this year’s prizes include a VR headset, 12-month videogame subscription and an interactive pet camera with two-way audio?)

13 November 201920 December 2019 · Announcement

A letter from our editors, old and new

Jacinda Woodhead, Editorial team, Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk

I remember mistakes over the years – the errors that made it into print, despite the concerted effort (sorry Fredric Jameson et al) – disagreements about whether a work is finished (who even really knows when a work is finished!) … Mostly, I remember the thrill of collaborating with writers and editors and our volunteer readers on thousands of ideas and essays and arguments and editions and special issues.

13 November 201919 December 2019 · Announcement

Fair Australia Prize 2019: the shortlists

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We are pleased to announce the shortlists for the ten categories of the 2019 Fair Australia Prize.

12 November 201922 November 2019 · Announcement

The time to write – and many, many, many prizes

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It’s never been an easy choice to be a writer, and it’s never easy to get published. But we strive to make Overland a series of spaces where you can have a voice. And we know how important having time to write is. That’s why, this Subscriberthon, you have a chance to win not one, but two writing retreats.

11 November 201929 November 2019 · Announcement

You can save literature!

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We don’t want a future where literature is a thing that used to happen.

9 November 201913 November 2019 · Announcement

Subscribe for a well-read planet

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Overland has spent the last 65 years imagining, challenging and debating ideas and possible futures – and, honestly, we’re just as feisty, radical, relentless, egalitarian-believing and utopian-seeking as we were in our youth! If you support what we do and the literary spaces we make, subscribe.

8 November 201922 November 2019 · Announcement

The future is powered by literature!

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Folks, welcome to our annual, week-long Subscriberthon! It's a lovely time of year: there are many magnificent prizes to be won! And an important magazine to support!

Published in Overland Issue 236 Spring 2019 ·

Judging notes | Nakata Brophy Prize

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One of the exciting aspects of reading the entries for this year’s Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers was the breadth of writing, the range of voices, subjects and styles, which is reflected in this year’s winners.

Published in Overland Issue 236 Spring 2019 ·

Issue 236

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Published in Overland Issue Speculative future(s) ·

Speculative Future(s)

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22 August 201912 September 2019 · Writing

Final Results of the 2019 VU Short Story Prize

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The Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize received an impressive selection of short stories this year that, in the words of judge Pip Adams, 'would make an amazing snapshot of the short story in 2019'.

21 August 201924 October 2019 · News

Announcing Overland’s new editors

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After an extensive application and interview process, Overland is thrilled to announce the appointment of our two new co-editors, Evelyn Araluen Corr and Jonathan Dunk, who will begin their editorship in late 2019.

7 August 201918 November 2022 · Writing

Shortlist for the 2019 Victoria University Short Story Prize

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We’d like to thank the many entrants who worked hard on their story submissions for the prize this year. Our four judges for the 2019 competition – writers Pip Adam, Michelle Aung Thin, Steven Amsterdam and Enza Gandolfo – have now decided on a shortlist of fourteen outstanding stories.

Published in Overland Issue 235 Winter 2019 ·

Issue 235

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11 July 20199 August 2019 · News

Announcing Overland’s resident writers for 2019

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Announcing the recipients of the 2019 Overland writing residencies, which are supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation.

2 July 201926 July 2019 · detention industry

Open letter to the University of Melbourne: Divest from the detention industry

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The open letter below, encouraging the University of Melbourne to divest from Wilson Security, was sent to Vice Chancellor Prof Duncan Maskell in June.

27 June 201911 July 2019 · News

Announcing the shortlists for the 2019 Overland writing residencies

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Announcing the shortlists for the 2019 Overland writing residencies, which are supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. These residencies will again address a lack of opportunities for underrepresented writers, providing space, time, stipend and mentorship.

25 June 201919 July 2019 · Prizes

The 2018 Nakata Brophy Prize: the final results

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The Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia. Sponsored by the University of Melbourne’s Trinity College, the prize alternates each year between fiction and poetry; this year’s prize is for the best short story (up to 3000 words) by an Indigenous writer under 30.

Published in Overland Issue Future sex ·

Future sex

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12 June 201911 July 2019 · Prizes

The Nakata Brophy Prize: the shortlist

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The Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia. Sponsored by the University of Melbourne’s Trinity College, the prize alternates each year between fiction and poetry; this year’s prize is for the best short story (up to 3000 words) by an Indigenous writer under 30.

11 June 201928 June 2019 · News

Overland is seeking a new editor

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Overland is seeking a new editor, and for the first time in its history, the magazine is advertising the position.

24 May 201911 July 2019 · Announcement

Writers, we want your speculative fiction about the future(s)!

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Overland is seeking fiction submissions for a special online edition themed around the future(s) you would manifest, to be guest edited by Eda Gunaydin.

10 May 201912 June 2019 · Racism

Stop scapegoating international students: an open letter from NTEU members

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Open letter from NTEU members regarding the Four Corners episode ‘Cash Cows’.

Published in Overland Issue 234.5: an autumn fiction edition with 16 editors! ·

234-5: an autumn fiction edition

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Published in Overland Issue 234 Autumn 2019 ·

Issue 234

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8 March 201927 June 2019 · News

Introducing Overland’s 2019 writing residencies

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We are pleased to announce that Overland will be running two writing residencies in 2019, both of which are supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. These residencies will again address a lack of opportunities for underrepresented writers, providing space, time, stipend and mentorship.

7 March 201922 March 2019 · Prizes

Final results of the 2018 Judith Wright Poetry Prize

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Overland, judges Alison Whittaker, Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng and Toby Fitch, and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are thrilled to announce the results of the 2018 Judith Wright Poetry Prize.

6 March 201918 November 2022 · Prizes

Final results of the 2018 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

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Overland and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are very pleased to announce the entries that placed in the 2018 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize.

26 February 201918 November 2022 · Prizes

Shortlist for the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

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This year, the first place prize is $4000 and publication in Overland 235. Two runner-up stories will be awarded $500 each, and will be published online alongside our winter edition.

25 February 20194 April 2019 · Prizes

Shortlist for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize

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We’d like to thank the 650 entrants for their impressive work this year. Now, the 2018 judges – Alison Whittaker, Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng and Toby Fitch – have arrived at a shortlist of nine outstanding poems.

11 February 201920 March 2019 · News

Some changes to our editorial team

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Overland is excited to announce some changes to our editorial team in 2019.

1 February 20198 February 2019 · News

Our fiction submissions are open for one week!

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We are pleased to announce that fiction submissions are open for a one-week period, from Friday 1 February until Friday 8 February, for consideration for our first edition of 2019. Fiction for the edition will be guest edited by Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk.

25 January 201930 January 2019 · News

Invasion Day 2019: rallies and actions

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We recognise 26 January as a day of protest against invasion and the violent legacies of colonialism. Overland staff will be attending Invasion and Survival Day actions across the country tomorrow. We encourage our readers to do the same. #sovereigntyneverceded #abolishaustraliaday

16 January 201919 February 2019 · Theatre

Podcast: The Bridge

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This podcast documents important moments from the 2018 Art & Industry Festival that relate to the history and significance of the West Gate Bridge. It will take you to symposiums; intimate accounts from workers who survived the collapse; scenes from the recent production of The Bridge, a play written by the late Vicki Reynolds in 1990; and, finally, to a special performance of ‘Throw your arms around me’ by Mark Seymour, James Henry and local community singers (led by Jennifer Lund), largely sung in the Yuwaalaraay language.

19 December 201814 January 2019 · News

Until the new year!

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Updates on holiday office hours, our new edition and summer writer opportunities. And a big shoutout to all our readers, contributors, submitters, volunteers and interns throughout the past year. We say it every year but it’s so very true: Overland would be impossible without you!

17 December 201818 February 2019 · Reviews

What our readers, contributors & editors loved (or didn’t love) in 2018

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We asked Overland contributors, volunteers, staff and editors to share their highs and lows of 2018.

Published in Overland Issue 233 Summer 2018 ·

Issue 233

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Published in Overland Issue If you've come here to help me: solidarity beyond borders ·

Solidarity beyond borders

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20 November 20184 December 2018 · Announcement

Fair Australia Prize 2018: the winners

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Overland, the National Union of Workers, the Migrant Workers Centre, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, and the National Tertiary Education Union (VIC) are very pleased to announce the winning entries for this year’s Fair Australia Prize.

16 November 201819 November 2018 · Announcement

Final day to show us some love & win prizes (and we promise not to mention Subscriberthon for 350 more days)

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This is it – one final appeal to you, dear reader, to put your spare $$ where your love is and take out a subscription sometime in the next few hours. In return, you’ll go into the prize draw for all our mind-blowing prizes.

16 November 201816 November 2018 · Events

Launch of Overland editorial intern Magan Magan’s debut poetry collection!

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6.30 pm Saturday 8 December VU at MetroWest, 138 Nicholson Street, Footscray Overland editorial intern Magan Magan is launching his first collection, published by Vulgar Press, in Footscray on 8 December.

16 November 20182 December 2018 · Events

‘Will robots bring us utopia?’ An end-of-year debate!

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6 pm Friday 7 December The Toff in Town, 252 Swanston Street, Melbourne Overland and the National Union of Workers are hosting a lively end-of-year debate on the topic of automation and what it will mean for workers and labour.

15 November 201816 November 2018 · Announcement

We’re impressed you’ve held out so long – but it’s the second-last day of Subscriberthon 2018

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Today is the second-last day to subscribe to Overland and be in the running for prizes so incredible that you must really look at the full list to appreciate their spectacularness!

15 November 201816 November 2018 · Events

The Bridge Projects and the Arts & Industry Festival

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How to Build Bridges Symposium 10 am – 6 pm Friday 23 November The Substation, 1 Market Street Newport The Bridge (the play) Wednesday 21–Saturday 24 November The Substation, 1 Market Street Newport

15 November 201815 January 2019 · Writing

Writers, submit your short fiction to our ‘future sex’ edition!

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Overland is seeking fiction submissions for a special online edition themed around ‘future sex’, to be edited by Michalia Arathimos. We are looking for stories that engage with what our changing sexualities look like, both now and in the future.

14 November 201811 December 2018 · Announcement

Seeking a new fiction editor

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After six years of shaping Overland’s fiction, our brilliant and inspiring fiction editor Jennifer Mills will be finishing up her editorship, with the final issue of 2018. As such, Overland is seeking a new fiction editor for the print magazine.

14 November 201816 November 2018 · Announcement

The end of an era

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It is with some sadness that we announce that our brilliant fiction editor of six years, Jennifer Mills, is moving on to other projects. As many of you would know, Jen is wonderful to work with – she’s one of Australia’s leading writers, a visionary editor, and a generous colleague and mentor.

13 November 201816 November 2018 · The future

2001 ways in which Overland will save you from the AI apocalypse

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1. Our fiction and poetry readers are humans. And in fact, we’re looking for more (to help us read through submissions and select the work that Overland goes on to publish. Interested? Read on.)

13 November 20184 December 2018 · Announcement

Callout: ongoing fiction, poetry and nonfiction readers

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Overland is looking to expand its team of fiction and poetry readers, and to start a team of nonfiction readers. These volunteer positions only require a time commitment of a few hours per month.

13 November 201819 November 2018 · Announcement

Callout: guest fiction editor

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Every year, Overland publishes several online editions showcasing fiction by new and emerging writers, or specially curated themed fiction editions. An opportunity exists for an emerging editor to work on one of these online fiction editions, to be published in April or May 2019.

12 November 201816 November 2018 · Subscriberthon 2018

Literature and culture for all! And other reasons to love Overland

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It’s never been an easy choice to be a writer, and it’s never easy to get published. But we try strive to make Overland a series of spaces where you can have a voice – in our print magazine, our daily only magazine, our special fiction and poetry editions (which publish primarily emerging writers, and are produced by emerging editors), our residencies for under-represented writers, our literary competitions and countless other opportunities.

10 November 201816 November 2018 · Subscriberthon 2018

Transmitting peace and prizes this Subscriberthon weekend

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Community and arts organisations and collaborations are central to Overland – we wouldn't be able to make and distribute the important work we do without support from, for instance, the National Union of Workers, who created and sponsor our $18,000 Fair Australia Prize, or The Lifted Brow, who demonstrate some of what's possible when many folks with good ideas collaborate, or 3RRR FM, who keep the radio waves alive.

9 November 201816 November 2018 · Announcement

Early birds catch many prizes: that’s right, it’s Subscriberthon 2018!

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Folks, welcome to our annual, week-long Subscriberthon! It's a lovely time of year: there are so many marvellous prizes to be won! And a splendid magazine to support!

Published in Overland Issue Tribulations from the digital frontier ·

Tribulations Poetry

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5 November 201823 November 2018 · Announcement

Fair Australia Prize 2018: the shortlists

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We are pleased to announce the shortlisted writers and artists for the 2018 Fair Australia Prize.

31 October 20189 November 2018 · Events

Our never-before attempted VR event at the 2018 Digital Writers’ Festival

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Online, 7pm Thursday 1 November Join Overland's resident tech-genius and poet Benjamin Laird, experimental storyteller Mez Breeze, and writer and VR enthusiast Mark Riboldi to boldly go where no writers have gone before: a panel examining the history and present of VR taking place in virtual space! This is a free event.

Published in Overland Issue 232 Spring 2018 ·

Issue 232

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Published in Overland Issue The 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize ·

About the prize

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Established in 2016, Queensland Poetry Festival’s Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia’s only open-age Indigenous poetry prize for an unpublished poem. Named in honour of Oodgeroo Noonuccal, the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse, after receiving permission from Oodgeroo’s family and in close consultation with Quandamooka Festival.

Published in Overland Issue The 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize ·

2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal

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The 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize

31 August 20183 October 2018 · Events

Overland at the National Young Writers’ Festival

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Check out the Overland events at the National Young Writers’ Festival! Taking place in Newcastle from 27-30 September, 2018.

29 August 201818 November 2022 · Prizes

Final results of the 2018 VU Short Story Prize

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From a pool of 863 entries, a longlist of 30 impressive stories, and a very strong shortlist of thirteen, this year’s judges – Michelle Cahill, Sarah Schmidt, Tom Clark and Jennifer Mills – have decided on the 2018 winner and two runners-up in the $8000 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers.

15 August 201828 November 2022 · Prizes

Shortlist for the 2018 VU Short Story Prize

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While we’d like to thank all 863 entrants who worked hard to submit this year, the four judges for the 2018 competition – writer Sarah Schmidt, writer and editor Michelle Cahill, writer and VU academic Tom Clark, and writer and Overland fiction editor Jennifer Mills – have now decided on a shortlist of thirteen outstanding stories.

Published in Overland Issue 231 Winter 2018 ·

Issue 231

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Published in Overland Issue False Documents ·

False Documents

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16 July 201812 September 2018 · Poetry

Poets, we want your writing about the internet!

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Overland is seeking poetry submissions for a special online edition – ‘Tribulations of the digital frontier’ – to be guest edited by long-time Overland volunteer, Mitchell Welch.

8 June 201822 June 2018 · Events

Overland at the 2018 Emerging Writers’ Festival

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Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 June, State Library Victoria, Conference Centre Join Overland at the National Writers’ Conference weekend, as part of the 2018 Emerging Writers’ Festival. There’s a panel on mentoring, featuring Laniyuk Garcon and Ellen van Neerven, a couple of industry sessions, such as ‘What editors want’ and ‘Pitch it!’, and Overland will have a trade table all Saturday, where you can stop by and talk with mag eds, peruse issues and maybe even try on some Overland tees.

6 June 201826 February 2019 · Prizes

The $18,000 Fair Australia Prize

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What does unionism mean to people today? What should be its objectives? How can we come together to make real change, now and into the future? This prize encourages artists and writers of fiction, poetry and essays to be part of setting a new agenda for our future – to imagine a just, common future, and how we might get there together.

Published in Overland Issue Seventy years of the Nakba ·

Nakba70

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This special edition marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when, in 1948, more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. In 2018, the violent occupation of Palestine and its people continues.

Published in Overland Issue 230.5: Autumn fiction ·

230.5 Autumn fiction

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13 April 201827 April 2018 · Prizes

Final results of the 2017 Nakata Brophy Prize!

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Published in Overland Issue 230 Autumn 2018 ·

Issue 230

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REGULARS Editorial 2 giovanni tiso 11 alison croggon 38 mel campbell 70 Contributors 94 FEATURES tony birch 3 Rise from this grave Stolenwealth and sovereignty Georgina Woods 13 Myth and consequence Through the lens of climate time Jennifer Mills 20 Swimming with aliens Diving in Whyalla ben brooker 40 ‘I’m afraid something might be coming’ […]

4 April 201823 April 2018 · Prizes

Shortlist for the 2017 Nakata Brophy Prize

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27 March 201828 May 2018 · Events

Overland at the 2018 Feminist Writers Festival

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Friday 25–Sunday 27 May, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre Three days of feminist politics, feminist perspectives and collective solutions. Catch the editor of Overland Jacinda Woodhead, with fiction editor Jennifer Mills and writer Natalie Kon-yu in conversation on mentorship in the arts – then stick around for special event presented by Overland on writing and activism with Santilla Chingaipe, Tarneen Onus-Williams and Asher Wolf.

1 March 201826 March 2018 · Prizes

Final results of the 2017 Neilma Sidney Short Prize

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The final results of the 2017 Overland Neilma Sidney Short Prize.

23 February 20187 March 2018 · Prizes

Final results of the 2017 Judith Wright Poetry Prize

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The final results of the 2017 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, as well as notes on the shortlist and a list of Highly Commended poems from this year’s competition.

21 February 20181 March 2018 · Prizes

Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize: the 2017 shortlist

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The 2017 judges – Nic Low, Ryan O’Neill and Jennifer Mills – have finished their blind judging and deliberation, and decided on a shortlist of thirteen brilliant stories that approach the theme in original ways.

20 February 20187 March 2018 · Announcement

Writers, we want your ‘false documents’!

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Overland is seeking fiction submissions for a special online fiction edition themed around ‘False documents’ – that is, fiction disguised as or in the guise of ‘real’ textual artefacts – to be guest edited by Dave Drayton.

16 February 20181 March 2018 · Prizes

Judith Wright Poetry Prize: the 2017 shortlist

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The 2017 judges, poet Ali Cobby Eckermann and Overland poetry editor Toby Fitch, have finished blind judging the competition and, after deliberation, have selected a shortlist of nine poems.

23 January 201829 January 2018 · Announcement

Invasion Day rallies and actions

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We recognise 26 January as a day of protest against invasion and the violent legacies of colonialism. The Overland office will be closed this Friday while our staff attend Invasion and Survival Day actions across the country. We encourage our readers to do the same. #sovereigntyneverceded

22 December 20179 January 2018 · News

See you next year!

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In solidarity, so long, proshchay, take care, wadaeaan, all the best, adiaŭo, shalom, see you next year!

22 December 201725 January 2018 · Writing

New writers, we’re hungry for your fiction!

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Overland is seeking fiction from new and emerging writers for a special online edition to be guest edited by Linda Godfrey.

Published in Overland Issue 229 Summer 2017 ·

Issue 229

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REGULARS Editorial 2 giovanni tiso 14 alison croggon 72 tony birch 88 Contributors 126 FEATURES mel campbell 3 a quest for critique 25 years of playing Crystal Quest allan drew 16 indefatigable wings The persistence of Milton michaliA arathimos 34 Napalm, Guns & underwear Ten years after the Urewera 18 dean biron & suzie gibson […]

30 November 201711 December 2017 · Events

A lively debate on the universal basic income!

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Debate: ‘It’s time … for a universal basic income?’ 6pm, Monday 11 December Ballroom, Trades Hall 54 Victoria St, Carlton Free food, free drinks, free event!

29 November 201718 December 2017 · Prizes

Fair Australia Prize 2017: the winners

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Overland, the National Union of Workers, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, and the National Tertiary Education Union (VIC) are very pleased to announce the winning entries of this year’s Fair Australia Prize.

24 November 201727 November 2017 · Events

Final day to show Overland some love

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We’ll make you think, we’ll challenge you, we’ll move you – and in our pages you’ll read things you disagree with. As one subscriber wrote to us just yesterday, ‘Every now and then I want to throw Overland across the room – which I consider a brilliant thing.’

23 November 201727 November 2017 · News

We’re impressed you’ve held out so long, but it’s the second-last day to catch the rocket to Prizeville

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Anyone who subscribes, resubscribes or donates before Friday goes into the draw to win some truly stellar prizes, including bikes, beekeeping workshops, artistic boot camps, award-winning books, bundles of excellent magazines, music, art and trips to Byron Bay.

22 November 201723 November 2017 · Events

Catch the Overland rocket to Prizeville

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By taking out, renewing or giving an Overland subscription today, you could win: – today’s ‘Parental leave’ prize – any of the three Major Prizes – and/or one of our Regional Prizes – a good feeling about yourself – and the future of progressive literary culture

21 November 201727 November 2017 · Events

1,917 reasons to subscribe

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Okay, we decided to narrow it down from 1,917 reasons to simply the top 17!

20 November 201711 December 2017 · News

Announcing Overland’s next resident writer

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Overland is thrilled to announce the successful applicant of its second residency program, which this year was open to First Nations writers.

20 November 201721 November 2017 · Events

Subscriberthon Day Four: Not a note wrong

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In Overland you find ideas unpopular with the political classes, and stances not taken in other publications. Since 1954, we have been a place where the political and literary left meet because politics does not end where a book begins.

18 November 201721 November 2017 · Events

Subscriberthon Weekend: Cultured and caffeinated

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We’ve got prizes for oenophiles, emerging writers and artists, Canberrans, dog owners, coffee afficionados, gamers, New Zealanders, strapped poets and chocolate lovers. There are bikes, bee-keeping workshops, award-winning books, bundles of excellent magazines, music and a trip to Byron Bay!

17 November 201720 November 2017 · Events

Subscriberthon Day One: Early birds catch many prizes!

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Subscriberthon 2017 is here! So many marvellous prizes to be won – and a splendid magazine to support! Anyone who subscribes, resubscribes or donates over the next week goes into the draw to win some spectacular prizes, including holidays, bikes, Nintendos, original artworks, locally roasted coffee, wine, workshops – and piles of books and subscriptions.

14 November 201711 December 2017 · Prizes

Fair Australia Prize 2017: the shortlists

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We are pleased to announce the shortlisted writers and artists for the 2017 Fair Australia Prize.

1 November 20171 December 2017 · News

Open letter to Victoria University regarding attacks on union representatives

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Open letter regarding ongoing cuts at Victoria University, and the targeting of a number of VU NTEU branch members. Academics, students, writers, union members and readers are free to sign via the comments section.

Published in Overland Issue 228 Spring 2017 ·

Issue 228

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Published in Overland Issue 227.5 Spring fiction ·

227.5 Spring fiction

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Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize ·

2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal

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The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize

28 August 20174 September 2017 · Events

Book Launch: Aukati – Boundary Lines

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2.30pm Saturday 2 September Beer DeLuxe, Fed Square, Melbourne Join award-winning writer and Overland fiction reviewer Michalia Arathimos as she launches her debut novel, Aukati: Boundary Line.

25 August 201725 September 2017 · Prizes

Final results of the 2017 VU Short Story Prize

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Overland, Victoria University and this year’s four judges – Frank Moorhouse, Enza Gandalfo, Ian See and Rachael McGuirk – are very pleased to announce the winners of the Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers.

17 August 201715 September 2017 · Writing

The 2017 Overland Writer’s Residency

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The Overland Writer’s Residency, supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, is an initiative aimed at addressing a lack of opportunities for under-represented writers. Following the success of Overland’s inaugural Writers' Residency in 2016, this year’s residency will be open to Indigenous writers at any stage of their writing career. Applications close Sunday 24 September, 2017.

17 August 20174 September 2017 · Events

Overland at Melbourne Writers Festival

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2.30pm Friday 1 September ACMI Cinema 1, Federation Square, Melbourne Will democracy win? Join Overland’s editor Jacinda Woodhead in conversation with Tony Birch, Jeff Sparrow and Micah White at this year's Melbourne Writers Festival.

16 August 20174 September 2017 · Prizes

Shortlist for the 2017 VU Short Story Prize

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Overland and Victoria University are pleased to announce that the four judges of this year’s Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers – author Frank Moorhouse, UQP editor Ian See, writer and academic Enza Gandalfo and Overland’s Rachael McGuirk – have reduced this year’s 800 entries to a shortlist of ten stories.

19 July 201721 July 2017 · Events

Launch of Unbreakable, a new feminist anthology

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From 6pm, Monday 24 July Readings Hawthorn A new anthology reflecting on violence against women. Editor Jane Caro will launch the book alongside readings from and discussions with contributors Rebecca Lim and Overland editor Jacinda Woodhead.

13 July 201717 August 2017 · News

Dystopia on film: an Overland-MIFF panel

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6.30pm, Thursday 17 August The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne Drawing on MIFF’s Sci-fi retrospective and looking at how cinema harnesses contemporary anxieties to show us where we might be headed, some of the best minds around dissect the darker corners of the future in this panel discussion about Dystopia on Film.

13 July 201715 August 2017 · News

Sci-fi marathon at the Melbourne International Film Festival

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Screening of Dead-End Drive-In From 9.30pm, Saturday 12 August at The Astor, Melbourne In the spring issue of 1972, Overland published the short story ‘Crabs’ by then little-known writer from Bacchus Marsh, Peter Carey. In 1986, ‘Crabs’ was made into the film, Dead End Drive-In. To celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of the story, Overland has teamed up with the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Published in Overland Issue 227 Winter 2017 ·

Issue 227

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REGULARS Editorial 2 giovanni tiso 16 alison croggon 31 Tony Birch 43 mel campbell 81 Contributors 94 FEATURES Evelyn araluen 3 Resisting the institution Decolonialism and its appropriation Helen MacDonald 11 Richard berry’s disgrace The legacies of scientific racism Kent MacCarter 18 They will oxidise before you even finish reading A survey of micro-press publishing […]

12 May 201712 May 2017 · Events

Overland at NonfictioNOW

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10.15am, Friday 2 June University of Iceland, Reykjavik For our friends in Iceland and those attending the 2017 NonfictionNOW Conference in ReykJavik, Overland's editor Jacinda Woodhead will explore publishing with a purpose in a world of lightning-paced content, with guests Sam Cooney, Björn Larsson and Guðmundur Andri Thorsson.

12 May 201718 May 2017 · Events

Overland editing at the Emerging Writers’ Festival

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6pm–7pm, Monday 19 June The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne Catch Overland's Deputy Editor Sian Vate with fellow editors Jessica Wilkinson and James Read as they share the tips, skills and knowledge on being an editor, and finding new ways to grow in the industry.

12 May 201718 May 2017 · Events

Overland poetry at the Emerging Writers’ Festival

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7.30pm, Monday 19 June 1000 £ Bend, Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Free event Overland's Deputy Editor and poet Sian Vate will join fellow contemporary poets Saaro Umar and Elena Gomez for a night of readings hosted by Australian Poetry.

12 May 201712 May 2017 · Events

Overland at Varuna: Sydney Writers’ Festival

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3pm–4pm, Tuesday 30 May The Carrington Hotel, Katoomba NSW Overland's fiction editor Jennifer Mills in conversation with Evelyn Arraluen Corr and Amy McQuire, winners of the 2016 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers.

3 May 201719 May 2017 · News

Looking for fiction for a special winter issue

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Overland is seeking fiction that tells writers’ own stories for a special online edition. Send us your works of identity, perception, perspective, and reality – and everything in between. Guest edited by Anna Spargo-Ryan.

Published in Overland Issue 226.5 Autumn fiction ·

226.5 Autumn fiction

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10 April 20171 May 2017 · News

Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers: the winners

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Overland, Trinity College and judges Tara June Winch, Jennifer Mills and Katherine Firth are very pleased to announce the final results of this year’s Nakata Brophy Prize.

5 April 201712 April 2017 · Events

Poetry Night at Sappho’s: Overland Judith Wright Prize Readings

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Poetry Night at Sappho: the Overland Judith Wright Prize Readings 7pm, Tuesday 11 April Sappho Books Cafe & Wine Bar 51 Glebe Point Road, Glebe NSW

3 April 201712 April 2017 · Prizes

Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers: the shortlist

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Now in its fourth year, the Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia. Sponsored by the University of Melbourne’s Trinity College, the prize alternates each year between fiction and poetry; this year’s prize is for the best short story (up to 3000 words) by an Indigenous writer under 30.

8 March 201715 March 2017 · Announcement

This International Women’s Day, why not …

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Things to see/read/take part in this International Women’s Day.

1 March 20177 March 2017 · Events

International Women’s Day with VU’s Women’s Collective

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When: 5.30pm–9pm, 7 March Where: VUSU Lounge, Footscray Park Campus, Victoria University To mark this International Women’s Day, the Victoria University Women’s Collective is hosting a panel discussion to explore violence against women and its intersection with racial inequality.

20 February 201727 February 2017 · Prizes

Results of the 2016 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

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Overland and judges Stephanie Bishop, Aviva Tuffield and Tony Wheeler are pleased to announce the winning entries in this year’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize.

13 February 201727 February 2017 · Main Posts

We demand an apology from Victoria University

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We the undersigned have put together a letter of protest addressed to Victoria University (where Overland magazine is also based) regarding the university’s hosting of a Q Society fundraising event on Friday 10 February. We will be regularly updating with signatures; feel free to add your name below.

7 February 201720 February 2017 · Prizes

Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize: the 2016 shortlist

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The three judges for this year’s competition – Stephanie Bishop, Aviva Tuffield and Tony Wheeler – have finished their blind judging and deliberation, and decided on a shortlist of nine outstanding stories with varying approaches to the theme.

3 February 20171 March 2017 · Prizes

The results of the 2016 Judith Wright Poetry Prize

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For the first time in its history, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize has resulted in a tie; as such, the prize money for this year’s first and second place will be combined, and split evenly between the two poems that have placed equal first.

27 January 20177 February 2017 · Prizes

2016 Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist

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The 2016 judges, Overland poetry editor Toby Fitch and poet Jill Jones, have finished blind judging the competition and, after deliberation, have selected a shortlist of nine poems.

20 December 201610 January 2017 · Announcement

Until next year!

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In solidarity, so long, adieu, take care, adios, all the best, see you next year!

19 December 20161 February 2017 · News

We need a guest fiction editor

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Every year, Overland publishes several online editions showcasing work by new and emerging writers. An opportunity exists for an emerging editor to work on one of these online fiction editions, to be published in June 2017.

19 December 201610 January 2017 · Reflection

Highs and lows of 2016

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Overland editors, staff and contributors on the political and cultural highs and lows of 2016.

19 December 20169 January 2017 · News

Ahoy there new writers! We want your fiction!

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Overland is seeking fiction from new and emerging writers for a special online edition. For this special edition, ‘new and emerging’ describes writers at various early-career stages, from previously unpublished to no more than one collection of stories or a novel published.

Published in Overland Issue 225 Summer 2016 ·

On the occasion of Gig Ryan’s sixtieth birthday

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That it’s pure, when it comes from their mouth, well I’d spend two dollars on earplugs. I’d drink milk and cider together. See a green object move

Published in Overland Issue 225 Summer 2016 ·

Judges’ report

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Judges: Emily Bitto, Michelle Law and Melissa Manning We were impressed by the breadth of voices and stories submitted; the body of entries took us around the world before landing us in our own backyard.

2 December 201621 December 2016 · Prizes

Fair Australia Prize 2016: the winners

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Overland and the National Union of Workers are very pleased to announce the winning entries of this year’s Fair Australia Prize.

25 November 201619 December 2016 · Events

A lively debate followed by launch of Overland 225

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Debate: ‘Does a “common future” mean overhauling our political system?’ 6pm, Friday 9 December The Toff in Town 252 Swanston St, Melbourne

24 November 201621 December 2016 · Prizes

2016 Story Wine Prize: the winners

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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Overland Story Wine Prize.

18 November 201621 December 2016 · Prizes

The 2016 Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize shortlist

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Overland and the National Union of Workers are pleased to announce and congratulate the following writers and artists who have been shortlisted for the 2016 Fair Australia Prize.

11 November 201613 November 2016 · Events

Final Day of Subscriberthon: Last chance to hop on board!

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It’s your last chance to win prizes by committing to a magazine that believes another world, a better world, is possible.

10 November 201613 November 2016 · Events

It’s the second-last day of Subscriberthon, so here are ten reasons to subscribe

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Anyone who takes out a joint subscription – or subscribes, resubscribes or donates – over the next week goes into the draw to win some spectacular prizes. This year’s prizes include a holiday to Ubud, original artworks, locally roasted coffee, wine, workshops – and piles of books and subscriptions.

9 November 201611 November 2016 · Events

Subscriberthon Day Six: It’s hard to write

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It’s hard to be a writer, and even harder to be an emerging writer. It can be lonely, atomising and there’s not a great deal of support. One of the real difficulties new writers face is where they can publish their work. But at Overland, we don’t just love you when you’re famous.

9 November 201623 January 2017 · Poetry

Giant Dog: our new poetry podcast

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Welcome to Giant Dog, the new Overland poetry podcast! This inaugural edition focuses on the special seventeen-poet collaboration edited by Corey Wakeling that Overland recently published, ‘On the Occasion of Gig Ryan’s Sixtieth Birthday’, and the work of Gig Ryan more generally.

8 November 201628 November 2016 · Events

2016 Story Wine Prize: the shortlist

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We received more than 500 entries in the third year of the Overland Story Wine Prize, the calibre of which greatly impressed our three judges – award-winning writer and screenwriter Michelle Law, novelist and winner of the 2015 Stella Prize Emily Bitto, and winner of the 2015 Overland Story Wine Prize, Melissa Manning.

8 November 201610 November 2016 · Events

Subscriberthon Day Five: It takes a village of literary journals

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Capitalism makes it seem like everything is in constant competition, but the more literary magazines we have, the more meaningful cultural conversations and literary experimentation occur, furthering and challenging our understanding of literature in the world today.

7 November 201610 November 2016 · Events

Subscriberthon Day Four: Maintain dissent

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Since 1954, Overland has been a space for making progressive, political cases about moments big and small – Overland argued against the Vietnam War and military intervention in Iraq; and argued for the importance of movements such as the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, S11 and Black Lives Matter. In Overland you find ideas unpopular with the political classes, and stances not taken in other publications.

5 November 20167 November 2016 · Events

Subscriberthon Weekend: Time to dive in!

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Start the weekend on a high note with this prize for music and poetry lovers. Remember, anyone who subscribes, resubscribes or donates over the next week goes into the draw to win some spectacular prizes, including a holiday to Ubud, original artworks, locally roasted coffee, wine, workshops – and piles of books and subscriptions.

5 November 201628 November 2016 · Poetry

On the Occasion of Gig Ryan’s Sixtieth Birthday

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This poem, compiling seventeen poets’ contributions, celebrates the occasion of Australian poet Gig Ryan’s sixtieth birthday.

4 November 20168 November 2016 · Events

Day One: Subscriberthon 2016 takes off!

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Overland’s annual Subscriberthon is taking off once more! Anyone who subscribes, resubscribes or donates over the next week goes into the draw to win some spectacular prizes, including a holiday to Ubud, original artworks, locally roasted coffee, wine, workshops – and piles of books and subscriptions.

Published in Overland Issue The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize ·

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

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Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize

Published in Overland Issue 224.5 Spring fiction ·

Issue 224.5: Spring fiction

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Published in Overland Issue 224 Spring 2016 ·

Issue 224

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REGULARS Editorial – Jacinda Woodhead Natalie Harkin Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Correspondence Contributors FEATURES Tim Robertson Inside the sweatshop of the world Labouring in China Ben Eltham Out of touch Politicians and their salaries Rachel Hennessy Engaged and enraged Why writers write Alice Grundy For what it’s worth Books: do they cost too much? Giovanni Tiso […]

25 August 201618 November 2022 · News

Announcing the winners of the 2016 VU Short Story Prize

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Overland, Victoria University and this year’s three judges – Jennifer Mills, Alison Whan and Jacinda Woodhead – are very pleased to announce the winners of the Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers.

24 August 201621 September 2016 · News

Overland needs an editorial assistant

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Overland is seeking an editorial assistant for two days a week, to start by early October. This is a paid, permanent part-time position.

11 August 20164 September 2017 · Writing

Want to write for Overland?

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Whether you’re an emerging writer or you’ve been around the traps for a while now, Overland is sure to have an opportunity for you.

10 August 201618 November 2022 · Writing

Shortlist for the 2016 VU Short Story Prize

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Overland and Victoria University are pleased to announce that the three judges of this year’s Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers – Overland fiction editor Jennifer Mills, Overland editor Jacinda Woodhead and Victoria University’s Alison Whan – have reduced this year’s 500 entries to a shortlist of fourteen stories.

4 August 201611 August 2016 · Announcement

Two book launches!

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Two regular Overland contributors are holding book launches this coming Monday 8 August: Rjurik Davidson’s second novel, The Stars Askew, and Ben Eltham’s Platform Paper on arts funding, When the Goal Posts Move.

4 August 20164 August 2016 · Events

Overland at Melbourne Writers Festival

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Reimagining ‘My country’; class, race and urban decay in Detroit; how to get published and more. From Friday 27 August to Sunday 4 September.

4 August 20164 August 2016 · Events

Overland at the Feminist Writers Festival

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Three days of feminist politics, feminist perspectives and collective solutions. Overland has a couple of panels taking place on the first day of the festival, Friday 26 August.

18 July 201617 August 2016 · News

Announcing Overland’s first resident writer

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Overland is honoured to announce the successful applicant of its inaugural residency for women writers who are also sole parents.

Published in Overland Issue 223 Winter 2016 ·

Issue 223

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REGULARS Editorial – Jacinda Woodhead Natalie Harkin Mel Campbell Giovanni Tiso Alison Croggon Contributors FEATURES Sisonke Msimang End of the rainbow The Fallists and contemporary South Africa Natalie Kon-yu ‘A testicular hit-list of literary big cats’ Sexist values in literary culture Stuart Glover Getting on the same page Where to for arts […]

28 June 201613 July 2016 · Writing

Writers, we want your fiction about women!

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Overland is looking for fiction for its next special issue, ‘The idea of women’, to be edited by Mandy Beaumont and Craig Bolland and published in October. Entries for the special issue close 11.59pm, Wednesday 31 August.

30 May 201630 May 2016 · Events

Melbourne poetry launch: Toby Fitch and Chris Edwards

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Vagabond Double Launch (Melbourne) 5pm, Saturday 18 June, The Alderman (Brunswick East) Come celebrate the Melbourne Vagabond Double Launch of The Bloomin' Notions of Other & Beau by Overland poetry editor Toby Fitch and O Sonata by Chris Edwards.

30 May 201622 June 2016 · Events

Overland at EWF

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Overland events at the 2016 Emerging Writers’ Festival Wednesday 15 June—Friday 24 June, Melbourne Pushing the literary form, baring literary jealousy and pitching literary work. Featuring Overland editors Jacinda Woodhead, Stephanie Convery and Toby Fitch, and website producer Benjamin Laird.

5 May 20161 June 2017 · Prizes

The 2017 Fair Australia Prize

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This $20,000 prize encourages artists and writers of fiction, poetry and essays to be part of setting a new agenda for Australia. Winning entries will be published in a special Fair Australia supplement in Overland 225, to be launched in Melbourne in early December. Entry is free.

2 May 201622 May 2016 · Prizes

Announcing the winners of the Nakata Brophy Prize

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Announcing the winners of this year’s Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers.

28 April 201617 August 2017 · Announcement

The Overland Writers’ Residency

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The Overland Writers’ Residency, supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, is a new initiative aimed at addressing a lack of opportunities for marginalised writers. In 2016, the Overland Writers’ Residency will focus on providing an opportunity for women writers who are also the sole primary carers of one or more children.

27 April 20162 May 2016 · Events

Sydney poetry launch: Toby Fitch and Chris Edwards

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Vagabond Double Launch (Sydney) 3.30pm, Saturday 30 April, Gleebooks Come celebrate the Sydney Vagabond Double Launch of The Bloomin' Notions of Other & Beau by Overland poetry editor Toby Fitch and O Sonata by Chris Edwards.

19 April 201610 May 2016 · Writing

Shortlist for the 2015 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers

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The three judges for the 2015 competition – Charmaine Papertalk-Green, Overland’s Toby Fitch and Trinity College’s Katherine Firth – have now decided on a shortlist of six outstanding poems from up-and-coming Indigenous writers.

Published in Overland Issue 222.5 Autumn fiction ·

222.5 Autumn fiction

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Contents Regulars Ben Walter – Editorial Fiction Alex Cothren Discomfort example Zahid Gamieldien Attribution Laura McPhee-Browne Olam Jessica Yu We don’t use language like that

17 March 201618 November 2022 · Prizes

Announcing the winners of the Neilma Sidney Prize

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Overland magazine and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are very pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize.

9 March 201618 November 2022 · Prizes

Shortlist for the first Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

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The three judges for the first year of the competition – Alice Pung, Ellen van Neerven and Stephanie Convery – have now finished their blind judging and deliberation, and decided on a shortlist of eight outstanding stories with varying approaches to the theme, ‘travel’.

7 March 201615 March 2016 · News

Callout: guest fiction editor

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3 March 20168 April 2016 · Prizes

Announcing the winners of the 2015 Judith Wright Poetry Prize

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Overland magazine and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Judith Wright Poetry Prize.

26 February 201626 April 2016 · Reviews

The Last Word: February

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Overland contributors and editors with brief recommendations of books, films, arts and culture that deserve a wider audience.

23 February 20167 March 2016 · News

Seeking a publicity expert

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About the position: The Overland publicity officer will work primarily with the editorial team to assist in promoting Overland’s ongoing program of events, including print editions, the online magazine, special editions, events, launches, competitions and the annual Subscriberthon.

16 February 201615 March 2016 · News

2015 Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist

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In its ninth year, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize continues to attract hundreds of outstanding new poetic works from across Australia and New Zealand. Now, Overland’s retiring poetry editor Peter Minter and Overland’s new poetry editor Toby Fitch have finished blind judging the competition and, after deliberation, have selected a shortlist of eight poems.

21 December 201513 January 2016 · News

And that’s a wrap

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After a big year, Overland is taking a little break. The magazine will begin publishing, and considering pitches and pieces, from Monday 11 January.

17 December 201513 January 2016 · Writing

Writers, we want your fiction!

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Overland is looking for fiction for a special anti-/dis-/un-Australian issue to be edited by Ben Walter and published in April 2016. Entries for the special issue close 11.59pm, Sunday 31 January.

Published in Overland Issue 221 Summer 2015 ·

Issue 221

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REGULARS Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Stephen Wright Giovanni Tiso Contributors FEATURES Ben Eltham The excellence criterion The future of arts funding Laurie Penny Facebook absolution On corporate policing of identity Eliora Avraham Transgender justice A manifesto Sam Wallman Ain’t no border high enough Crossing Fortress Europe Jessie Webb Reading machines The […]

4 December 201513 January 2016 · Reflection

The last word

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Some of Overland's 2015 editorial team – Stephanie Convery, Toby Fitch, Jennifer Mills, Giovanni Tiso and Jacinda Woodhead – on what they’ve been reading, listening to, playing, etc.

11 November 201512 November 2015 · News

Subscriberthon: It’s your last chance!

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Today is your last chance to go in the running to win one of our twenty fantastic Subscriberthon prizes. If you still haven't taken the plunge, you have until midnight tonight to sneak in under the wire.

10 November 201518 November 2015 · News

Subscriberthon Day Seven: Penultimatum!

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Overland has readers all across Australia, and this year, we’ve got a fantastic collection of regional prizes, including theatre tickets, writers’ centre memberships, coffee, gift vouchers, and of course, books, books, books! There’s one prize for every state in Australia. We’ve also got a special prize set aside for our New Zealand subscribers, too.

9 November 201513 November 2015 · News

Subscriberthon Day Six: More local literary culture, more ♥

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Literary magazines have the flexibility to do what corporate publishing cannot: experiment, take creative risks, publish underrepresented perspectives and ideas, and engage with a literary culture that goes beyond the marketplace. But we can't do it without you.

7 November 201518 November 2015 · News

Subscriberthon Weekend: Good sports

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Subscriberthon is Overland’s annual celebration of progressive writing, culture and all things literary. We’re inviting you to join us in declaring your love for local literary culture, and to support the magazine by taking out a subscription. So, what’s on your weekend reading list?

6 November 201516 December 2015 · News

Announcing the winners of the 2015 Short Story Prize

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Overland, Victoria University and the three judges – Nam Le, Natalie Kon-yu and Jacinda Woodhead – are very please to announce the winners of the Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers.

6 November 201518 November 2015 · Events

Subscriberthon Day Three: We ♥ Local Literary Culture

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If you care about writing and ideas as much as we do, you know how important it is to maintain a healthy literary ecosystem. Literary journals are a fundamental part of writing and publishing in Australia. They encourage dialogue about literature and culture, provide a nurturing space for new and emerging writers, and providing crucial opportunities for experimentation in form and aesthetics.

5 November 20159 November 2015 · Events

Subscriberthon Day Two: For emerging writers and policy wonks

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At Overland, we believe in the democratisation of politics and culture. We believe that the loudest voices shouldn't be those with the most money or the strongest corporate support. We believe that alternative media and voices are crucial to keeping art, culture, and politics accessible, innovative and accountable. Part of that mandate is developing a strong culture of support for emerging writers.

4 November 201518 November 2015 · Events

Subscriberthon Day One: Bibliotherapy

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29 October 20159 November 2015 · News

Shortlist for the 2015 Short Story Prize

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Overland and Victoria University are pleased to announce that the three judges of the Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers – writer Nam Le, writer and Victoria University academic Natalie Kon-yu and Overland editor Jacinda Woodhead – have finally decided on a shortlist of twelve stories.

23 October 201518 November 2015 · Main Posts

The last word

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Burning thoughts on books, music, articles, TV shows, films, and other cultural ephemera from Overland’s writers and editors.

12 October 20153 November 2015 · News

2015 Story Wine Prize: the winners

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The stories that stood out in this year’s competition, especially those on the shortlist, note judges Alicia Sometimes, Clare Strahan and Leah Swann, honed in on a moment or mood ‘with precision and attention to the finest, evocative detail’.

30 September 201510 November 2015 · Events

2015 Story Wine Prize: the shortlist

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After reading the entries blind, the judges have selected a shortlist of eight outstanding stories. The winning story will receive a $4000 first prize and be published on the label of a bottle of Story Wine, as well as in Overland’s print magazine. Two runners-up will each receive $500 and be published at Overland online, and on the labels of different Story Wines vintages. Winners will be announced next week.

Published in Overland Issue 220 Spring 2015 ·

Issue 220

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REGULARS Editorial Giovanni Tiso Mel Campbell Alison Croggon Contributors FEATURES Luke Stegemann Trouble on the hour, every hour The tensions in Europe’s borderlands Anonymous Statement of vindication Tracing misogynist-driven violence Jason Wilson A presence that disturbs Climate change: natural and inevitable Jennifer Mills Detroit, I do mind In capitalism’s graveyard Ken MacLeod Hard to be […]

28 August 201517 September 2015 · Prizes

Announcing the winners of the XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word

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Arts Queensland’s XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word is Australia’s first arts award that recognises the growing field of spoken word.

14 August 201530 August 2015 · News

Callout: new poetry editor and ongoing poetry readers

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After almost five years of shaping Overland’s poetics, our gifted poetry editor Peter Minter will be finishing up his editorship with the first issue of 2016. As such, Overland is seeking a new poetry editor for the print magazine. Overland is also looking to start a team of poetry readers.

13 August 201527 August 2015 · Events

Overland is launching at MWF 2015

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Overland is very pleased to be launching our upcoming issue at the 2015 Melbourne Writers Festival. We’re also very excited to host journalist, contributing editor of the New Statesman and editor-at-large of The New Inquiry Laurie Penny, who will join NUW’s Tim Kennedy and playwright and Guardian columnist Van Badham in conversation with Overland editor Jacinda Woodhead to imagine the possibilities for a changed society.

Published in Overland Issue Aotearoa online ·

Aotearoa online

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16 July 201529 July 2015 · Prizes

Announcing the winners of the Fair Australia Prize

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Overland and the National Union of Workers are very pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural Fair Australia Prize, all of whom will be published in Overland 220, a special extended edition to be launched in Melbourne in late August.

14 July 201511 August 2015 · Prizes

VU Short Story Prize now open!

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The Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers is now open. This year, the competition will be judged by writer Nam Le, writer and academic Natalie Kon-yu and Overland's Jacinda Woodhead.

13 July 201522 July 2015 · Announcement

#FreetheArts – this Friday!

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#FreeTheArts has achieved a lot in a short space of time, but to grow the campaign we think we need to move beyond just arts workers. We want: - A campaign that’s lively and urgent! One that has artists and arts lovers and their families and friends involved on every level - A campaign that reminds everyone that the purpose of George Brandis’s National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA) is to eliminate diversity and dissent, and to destroy the small-to-medium arts sector - A campaign that will not accept this permanent loss of funding as an option

9 July 201527 August 2015 · Main Posts

Inside the riots at Metropolitan Remand Centre

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No mattress or bedding was provided for days after the riot. There were windows broken everywhere so it was very cold. Most prisoners inside lost their property as it was destroyed or burned by rioting men. My partner does not know if his property was destroyed or not as he has not been allowed back to his cell. He is currently ‘locked down’ in a room designed for two men with up to six other men in it.

26 June 201522 July 2015 · Prizes

The Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize shortlist

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What does a fair Australia look like, and how do we get there? The Fair Australia Prize asked writers and artists to engage with these questions and imagine a new political agenda for Australia through fiction, essays, poetry and illustrations. Overland and the National Union of Workers are pleased to announce that the following writers and artists have […]

Published in Overland Issue 219.5 Winter fiction ·

Issue 219.5: winter fiction

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Rachel Hennessy – Fiction editorial Shannon Burns – Australian crawl Kalia Forde – If he woke up Joshua Kemp – Blue boy Emma Rayward – Ford Forth is infinite

Published in Overland Issue 219 Winter 2015 ·

Issue 219

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REGULARS Giovanni Tiso – Editorial Stephen Wright Alison Croggon Mel Campbell FEATURES Morgan Godfery Settled peacefully The stories told about our colonial histories Faisal Al-Asaad ‘In a rage almost all the time’ From Gaza to Ferguson John Clarke The things she did A eulogy Catriona MacLennan The ethics of defence Lawyers and rape trials Max […]

27 May 20153 June 2015 · Events

Overland in Aotearoa / New Zealand

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5:30pm Thursday 4 June Vic Books (Kelburn Campus), Wellington Come celebrate Overland's first-ever edition dedicated exclusively to the work of some of their closest writerly neighbours. Guest edited by Giovanni Tiso, Jolisa Gracewood and Robert Sullivan.

19 May 201522 May 2016 · Culture

Dear Minister for the Arts

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It is deeply disturbing for any Minister to attempt to directly control the kinds of culture produced in a democracy that values freedom of expression. We want to continue the Australian tradition of arts funding being independent of any political influence. The Minister himself has previously argued that art will always provoke debate, ‘that’s why we have an arms-length and peer-reviewed structure for the allocation for the funding’. What he now proposes is precisely the opposite.

7 May 201518 May 2015 · Events

Overland drinks in the Metropolis

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Following a stimulating day at a writers’ festival, what could be more appealing than an after-hours soiree at Metropolis Books, located in the Art Noveau-styled Curtin House (former home to the Communist Party of Australia)?

22 April 201529 April 2015 · News

We want your fiction

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Overland is seeking fiction from new and emerging writers for a special online edition to be curated by Rachel Hennessy. For this special edition, ‘new and emerging’ describes a writer who has not yet published a book of stories or novel with commercial distribution. Online contributors for this edition will be paid $120 per story.

Published in Overland Issue 218.5: Autumn fiction ·

218.5: Autumn fiction

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Contents Regulars Khalid Warsame – Editorial Fiction Dom Amerena Terminal Kate Elkington Old Light Imogen McCluskey Blue Camille Renaud Past Experience

Published in Overland Issue 218 Autumn 2015 ·

Issue 218

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REGULARS Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Stephen Wright Giovanni Tiso Contributors FEATURES Khalid Warsame The authentic writer self CAL–Connections essay series Christopher Scanlon Happiness™ The dark side of positive psychology Jennifer Down The end Overcoming grief Kirsten Tranter Go, little book On being reviewed Tony McKenna The politics of deduction The secret […]

16 March 20156 November 2018 · Writing

Announcing the winners of the 2014 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize

Editorial team

Overland magazine and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are very pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Poetry Prize.

12 March 201530 March 2015 · News

Callout: guest fiction editor and ongoing fiction readers

Editorial team

An opportunity exists for an emerging editor to work on one of these online fiction editions, to be published in June 2015. Overland is also looking to expand its team of fiction readers.

26 February 201517 March 2015 · Writing

2014 Poetry Prize shortlist

Editorial team

Since 2007, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize has been Australia’s richest competition for new and emerging poets. This year again the competition attracted hundreds of high-calibre entries.

22 December 201419 January 2015 · Announcement

Summer publication schedule

Editorial team

Overland has ceased publication for the summer break. The regular program will recommence on 19 January 2015. We wish all our readers safe and happy holidays.

19 December 201427 January 2015 · News

Calling emerging writers

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Overland is seeking fiction from new and emerging writers for a special online edition to be curated by Khalid Warsame. Khalid is a Brisbane-based writer of essays, short stories, memoir and screenplays, who occasionally produces and directs short films.

Published in Overland Issue Photonic Overland ·

Editorial

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This second issue of electronic poetry, Photonic Overland, sees eight more pieces of literature that engage meaningfully with the digital world. Reading through the submissions revealed a diversity of styles, formats and media. Each work, and each work published in this issue, requires exploration, both for the reader and the writer.

Published in Overland Issue Photonic Overland ·

Photonic Overland

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Editorial – Benjamin Laird Josh Mei-Ling Dubrau and Mark Havryliv, “p[a]ra[pra]xis” Christopher Rodley and Andrew Burrell, “Everything Is Going To Be OK :)” Mez Breeze and Andy Campbell, “#Carnivast” Pascalle Burton, “Computer’s consider Maya Deren” Ian Gibbins, “Editor’s selection” Peter Wildman, “Modulate a thousand times more” Omar Sakr, “Definitions” Panos Couros, “Negative guilt”

9 December 20142 February 2015 · News

Aotearoa / New Zealand edition of Overland

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In May of next year, Overland is publishing an issue showcasing the work of some of our closest writerly neighbours: those residing in Aotearoa / New Zealand. This special edition will be guest edited by long-time Overland contributor and columnist Giovanni Tiso, with Jolisa Gracewood editing the fiction and Robert Sullivan editing the poetry.

19 November 201420 November 2014 · News

Subscriberthon: the major prizewinners

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Without further ado, here are the winners of the major prizes of the 2014 Overland Subscriberthon.

18 November 201419 November 2014 · Announcement

Winners from the last day of Subscriberthon

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The following subscribers have won prizes from the final day of Subscriberthon. If you subscribed then and your name is not among them, don’t despair! The major prizes have not yet been drawn.

12 November 201413 November 2014 · News

Winners from Day Six

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The following subscribers from Day 6 have won prizes. If you subscribed then and your name is not among them, don’t despair! The major prizes have not yet been drawn.

12 November 201413 November 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon: final chance

Editorial team

Subscriberthon must end today but there is still a chance to win big prizes. In fact, we've saved some of the best stuff until last.

11 November 201412 November 2014 · Announcement

Winners from Day Five

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The following subscribers from Day 5 have won prizes. If you subscribed then and your name is not among them, don't despair! The major prizes have not yet been drawn.

11 November 201412 November 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon: penultimate day

Editorial team

It's nearly the end of Subscriberthon and it's nearly the end of the year. So today's prizes are all about giving you a shot of adrenalin to make it to the finish line. Lots of books on exciting topics and lots (lots!) of coffee!

Published in Overland Issue 217 Summer 2014 ·

Issue 217

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10 November 201411 November 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon Winners

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Did you win a prize on Friday or on the weekend? Check this list and find out!

10 November 201411 November 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon Prizes: Day Five

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And ... we're back with Subscriberthon Day Five. Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates to Overland goes into the draw for the following daily prizes – and is also eligible for the major prizes (see below). This year, you can also sign up for an auto-renewing subscription, which means you'll always be eligible to win at Subscriberthon. Overland depends on the support of its readers. If you enjoy the magazine, the site, the competition and the events, take out a subscription today.

8 November 201410 November 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon Prizes: The weekend

Editorial team

Welcome to the weekend of Subscriberthon 2014. Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates to Overland goes into the draw for the following daily prizes – and is also eligible for the major prizes (see below). This year, you can also sign up for an auto-renewing subscription, which means you'll always be eligible to win at Subscriberthon. This weekend, the prizes are all about culture– a mixture of the highfalutin' and the lowbrow, with prizes to suit all tastes. Overland depends on the support of its readers. If you enjoy the magazine, the site, the competition and the events, take out a subscription today.

7 November 201410 November 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon Winners: Day Two

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The daily prize winners for the second day of subscriberthon have been drawn. If your name is not there, you could still win one of the major prizes, which will be drawn when subscriberthon concludes.

7 November 20149 December 2014 · News

Opportunity for an emerging fiction editor

Editorial team

An opportunity exists for an emerging editor to work on an online edition of fiction for Overland.

7 November 201410 November 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon Prizes: Day 3

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Welcome to Day Three of Subscriberthon 2014. Today's the day of looking good, with an array of prizes that will improve your looks and the looks of your bookshelf. With contributions from Monster Threads, Miss Gertrude, Porter's Paints, Egg Records and the cream of Australia's publishers, there's something here to turn any duckling into a swan.

6 November 201428 November 2014 · News

Overland needs an editorial intern

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Overland is seeking a part-time editorial intern for a three-month period, starting in February 2015. This is a paid position.

6 November 201416 November 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon winners: Day One

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The day prizes from Day One of Subscriberthon have been drawn.

6 November 201410 November 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon Prizes: Day 2

Editorial team

Welcome to Day Two of Subscriberthon 2014. It works like this: anyone who subscribes, renews or donates to Overland goes into the draw for the following daily prizes – and is also eligible for the major prizes (see below). This year, you can also sign up for an auto-renewing subscription, which means you'll always be eligible to win at Subscriberthon.

5 November 201413 November 2014 · News

Shortlist for the 2014 Short Story Prize

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The judges – Overland editor Jeff Sparrow, fiction editor Jennifer Mills, deputy editor Jacinda Woodhead, and Victoria University academic and writer Jenny Lee – have finally decided on a shortlist of thirteen stories.

5 November 201410 November 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon Prizes: Day 1

Editorial team

Welcome to Day One of Subscriberthon 2014. Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates to Overland goes into the draw for the following daily prizes – and is also eligible for the major prizes(see below). This year, you can also sign up for an auto-renewing subscription, which means you'll always be eligible to win at Subscriberthon.

Published in Overland Issue 216.5: Summer fiction ·

216.5: summer fiction

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Contents Regulars Kate Goldsworthy – Editorial Fiction Laura Stortenbeker Yards Katherine Brabon Concrete Kids Amirreza Esmaily The purple debris Ariella Van Luyn The cunning folk

19 October 201413 November 2014 · Events

Overland Trivia Night

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7pm, Friday 14 November Russian House, Fitzroy $15 entry. BYO picnic food with drinks available for purchase on the night.

29 September 20143 October 2014 · Announcement

Overland announces a new editor

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From 2015, Overland will be edited by Jacinda Woodhead, the current deputy editor. After seven years as editor, Jeff Sparrow is leaving the role at the end of the year.

25 September 201424 February 2015 · News

Winners of the Overland Story Wine Prize

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It’s our great pleasure to announce the winners of the inaugural Overland Story Wine Prize.

16 September 201422 September 2014 · News

The 2014 Poetry Prize

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The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets, the richest prize in Australia for emerging poets, is now open. The 2014 major prize is $6000, with a second prize of $2000 and a third prize of $1000. All three winning poems will also be published in Overland.

26 August 20141 September 2014 · Writing

Shortlist for the Story Wine Prize

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We received around 400 entries for our inaugural Story Wine Prize. The three judges – novelist and Overland contributing editor Clare Strahan, wine writer and critic Campbell Mattinson, and short story writer and novelist Paddy O’Reilly – said they found the stories to be clever and diverse, and of a high standard overall.

Published in Overland Issue 216 Spring 2014 ·

Issue 216

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Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Giovanni Tiso Stephen Wright Contributors FEATURES Laurie Penny Why I write Words against power JOHN MARNELL Imagined worlds Queer writing in Africa Various The future of magazines A survey of literary editors Rjurik Davidson On writer’s block What the blank page says about writing Hugo […]

14 August 201426 August 2014 · News

Your fiction: we want it!

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Overland is seeking fiction from new and emerging writers for a special online edition to be guest edited by editor and Overland fiction reader, Kate Goldsworthy. Kate has worked for Black Inc, Random House, Allen & Unwin and many other publishing houses.

12 August 2014 · Announcement

Special offer for Overland readers

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Monash University Publishing is offering Overland readers a 30 percent discount off any title in its new Investigating Power series, including the new Sri Lanka’s Secrets: How the Rajapaksa Regime Gets Away with Murder by journalist Trevor Grant. Sri Lanka’s Secrets How the Rajapaksa Regime Gets Away with Murder By Trevor Grant With a foreword by […]

18 July 201425 August 2014 · Events

Overland at the Melbourne Writers Festival

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Overland is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival.

8 July 201425 July 2014 · News

Pinging all electronic poets

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Overland is again seeking digital-born poetry, electronic poetry, poetry in programmable media and codeworks: a poetry that isn’t merely published online but one that is informed, shaped or built by the culture and technology of the programmable machine and the network.

19 June 20141 September 2014 · Prizes

The 2014 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize

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The competition aims to discover the finest in original short fiction by new writers across Australia and New Zealand. With a $6000 first prize and two runner-up prizes of $1000, the award is the most lucrative of its kind in both countries. All three winning stories will also be published in Overland magazine.

Published in Overland Issue 215 Winter 2014 ·

Issue 215

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Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Giovanni Tiso Stephen Wright Contributors FEATURES James Muldoon Mourning democracy A post-democratic era? Anwyn Crawford The biennale boycott Why it was right to protest Juliana Qian & Elizabeth O’Shea Should the Left check its privilege? A debate Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Horrors of history The politics […]

20 May 201418 November 2022 · Activism

Writers to PM Tony Abbott: restore funding to the arts

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An open letter to the federal government from writers, editors and publishers about the proposed cuts to arts funding and the Australia Council.

13 May 201427 May 2014 · Main Posts

22 May: ‘Sombre the Night Is: The Poetry of the Great War’

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4.30 pm, Thursday 22 May, Walsh Bay, Sydney A Sydney Writers’ Festival event, featuring Jeff Sparrow, Judy Davis, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Omar Musa, Tony Birch, Colin Friels, Antony Loewenstein and Jennifer Mills.

13 May 201427 May 2014 · Main Posts

23 May: Seminar – ‘Who is paying authors what?’

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6:30 pm, Friday 23 May, Queen Victoria Women's Centre, Melbourne This panel session will consider the questions from a variety of perspectives, and with a view to further informing and guiding the ASA’s campaign for better pay and conditions for Australian writers.

Published in Overland Issue 214.5: New fiction ·

214.5: New fiction

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Contents Regulars Oliver Driscoll – Editorial Fiction Jennifer Down Convalescence Tim Buckley Scab Josephine Scicluna The landlord Mardi O’Connor Orgasm club

10 April 201430 June 2014 · Prizes

The Overland Story Wine Prize

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Welcome to the Overland Story Wine Prize. The competition aims to discover the finest in original short fiction under a thousand words. The winning story will receive a $3000 first prize and will be published on the label of a Story Wines shiraz, as well as in Overland. Two runners-up will each receive $500.

Published in Overland Issue 214 Autumn 2014 ·

Issue 214

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Contents Regulars Jacinda Woodhead – Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Giovanni Tiso Stephen Wright Contributors FEATURES Avan Judd Stallard Welcome to Curtin Working in a detention centre BJ Thomason A slippery bastard The many legends of Breaker Morant Jeff sparrow ‘Cats are out, sloths are in’ What’s the point of fact-checking? Andrew Nette A proletarian […]

24 March 201413 May 2014 · Main Posts

9 April: Come to a helluva journal-palooza

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Tomorrow night, join Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow and Overland for a combined launch of thrilling literary activities for 2014! As well as launching their new issue, Overland will launch the new Overland Story Wine Prize! Free wine at the event will be supplied by Story Wines.

25 February 201413 May 2014 · Main Posts

Is Melbourne still the intellectual capital of Australia?

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Four prominent thinkers will debate Melbourne’s reputation as Australia’s intellectual hub. The panel discussion will be held as part of La Trobe University’s Ideas and Society program on Thursday 6 March 2014 in conjunction with the National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Now exhibition. It will be chaired by Professor Robert Manne, convenor of the Ideas […]

24 February 201413 May 2014 · Writing

New fiction opportunity: get write to it!

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Overland is seeking fiction from new and emerging writers for a special online edition to be guest edited by writer and Overland fiction reader, Oliver Driscoll.

20 February 201413 May 2014 · Main Posts

3 March: Overlanders at the Adelaide Festival

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3 March 2014 Adelaide Festival A discussion on reviewing, with Jeff Sparrow, Jennifer mills and Tony Birch.

20 February 201413 May 2014 · Main Posts

13 March: Launch of Writers for Refugees

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13 March 2014 Trades Hall, Melbourne Join a number of Overland contributors, including Jeff Sparrow, Maxine Clarke and Ali Alizadeh, for the launch of Writers for Refugees.

18 February 201426 February 2015 · Writing

Shortlist for the 2013 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize

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Overland and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are very pleased to announce the 2013 shortlist.

20 December 201313 January 2014 · Announcement

Normal service will be resumed shortly

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Overland will be shutting down from 20 December 2013 until 13 January 2014. We wish all our readers all the best for the holiday period.

Published in Overland Issue 213.5: Summer fiction ·

213.5: Summer fiction

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Contents Regulars SJ Finn – Editorial Fiction Alice Bishop Bloodwood Patrick Holloway Lilies Louise Spence To want to Sam Wieck Message received

5 December 201313 December 2013 · Announcement

Prize winners from the 2013 Subscriberthon

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The 2013 Subscriberthon was a great success. Thanks to everyone who donated, subscribed or renewed. The Subscriberthon winners have now been drawn.

Published in Overland Issue 213 Summer 2013 ·

Issue 213

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Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Judy Horacek Rjurik Davidson Stephen Wright Features David Brophy John Campbell, the Anti-Kim The strange story of a British boy lost in Afghanistan Tom Clark Paul Keating’s Redfern Park speech and its rhetorical legacy How do you separate the orator and the oration? Lisa Vetten Islands adrift […]

22 November 201320 February 2014 · Main Posts

Winners of the Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for 2013

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Overland is very pleased to announce the results of the 2013 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers.

Published in Overland Issue Electronic Overland ·

Editorial

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The pieces here are products of our time – a time of diverse mediums and expression, and the web a place where such boundaries blur. That is to say, all of these works are poems, yet the poet/writer/composer/programmer/artist has used significantly different methods to write them. These poems are textual, aural, visual and reader controllable, and this materiality is critical to their reading.

Published in Overland Issue Electronic Overland ·

Electronic Overland

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Contents Benjamin Laird Editorial Poetry Mez Breeze Real_Time_”1sts!” [or: PanoptiConned Imagery From the Scene] Jim Andrews Aleph Null Jason Nelson Textsky Pip Smith Wayside Renga Gary Barwin The new squeeze Hazel Smith, Roger Dean and Greg White Disappearing Tully Hansen Writing Jessica Rae Counting

18 November 201320 February 2014 · Announcement

Placing Nonfiction: a symposium

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A free, one-day nonfictionLab symposium on Tuesday 10 December at RMIT University. With keynote speakers, Prof Ross Gibson and Dr Jeff Sparrow.

13 November 201320 February 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon prizes: Day 8

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Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates more than $40 over the next week goes into the running for our daily prizes and one of our major prize packs.

12 November 201313 November 2013 · Announcement

Subscriberthon prizes: Day 7

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Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates more than $40 over the next week goes into the running for our daily prizes and one of our major prize packs. Today’s prizes are all about culture: theatre and cinema packs, and more books than you can shake a stick at!

11 November 201320 February 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon prizes: day six

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Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates more than $40 over the next week goes into the running for our daily prizes and one of our major prize packs. Today’s prizes include vouchers to furnish your home, eat fancy dinners and invest in books.

9 November 201320 February 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon prizes: day four and five

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8 November 201320 February 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon prizes: day three

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Welcome to Subscriberthon 2013. Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates more than $40 over the next week goes into the running for our daily prizes and one of our major prize packs. Today's prizes are all about reader satisfaction, whatever your genre or style. There's a 16gb Kobo Arc reader, a science nerd collection, a media junkie collection, another for history buffs, one for badasses and one for the religiously curious.

7 November 201320 February 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon prizes: day two

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Welcome to Subscriberthon 2013. Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates more than $40 over the next week goes into the running for our daily prizes and one of our major prize packs. These include: three months of unlimited movies for two people to Cinema Nova (valued at over $1500); six month’s supply of coffee from Wide Open Road delivered to your door ...

6 November 201320 February 2014 · Announcement

Subscriberthon prizes: day one

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Welcome to Subscriberthon 2013. Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates more than $40 over the next week goes into the running for our daily prizes, as well as one of our major prize packs. These include: three months of unlimited movies for two people to Cinema Nova (valued at over $1500); six month’s supply of coffee from Wide Open Road delivered to your door ...

30 October 201313 May 2014 · Main Posts

Introducing the Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers

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Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, this prize recognises the wonderful talent of so many young indigenous writers across the nation, and offers an opportunity for the best of our writers to be encouraged, published and acclaimed.

14 October 201320 February 2014 · Writing

Shortlist for the 2013 Short Story Prize

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We received over 830 entries for the 2013 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers, many of which were of a remarkably high standard. After lengthy consideration, the judges have selected a shortlist of 12 exceptional stories.

30 September 201320 February 2014 · Writing

Seeking fiction!

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Overland is seeking fiction from new and emerging writers for a special online edition to be guest edited by writer and long-time Overland fiction reader, SJ Finn. For this special edition, ‘new and emerging’ describes a writer who has not yet published a book of stories or novel with commercial distribution. Submissions close midnight, Wednesday 16 October.

Published in Overland Issue 212 Spring 2013 ·

Issue 212

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Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Correspondence Stephen Wright Judy Horacek Rjurik Davidson Features Nic Maclellan What has Australia done to Nauru? The real price of offshore detention Alison Croggon Why art? How to defend arts funding Tad Tietze A change in the order of things? The shifting fortunes of the Australian Greens El Gibbs […]

3 September 201320 February 2014 · Announcement

The richest prize for emerging poets closes today

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The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets is the biggest, most prestigious prize for emerging poets in Australia and it is closing very, very soon.

30 July 201320 February 2014 · Announcement

Call-out for electronic poetry

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Overland is seeking digital-born poetry, electronic poetry, poetry in programmable media and codeworks. That is, a poetry that isn’t just published online but one that requires the media and cultures provided by programmable machines and the network.

5 July 201320 February 2014 · Announcement

Opportunities for writers

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Overland is looking for online contributors. Whether you’re a budding polemicist, a cultural critic, a book nerd, or an activist with an idea for a campaign under an Abbott government, submit your work for publication online at Overland.

2 July 20132 July 2013 · Writing

Women’s Work: new Australian stories from emerging women writers

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Women’s Work, Overland’s anthology of new Australian stories from emerging women writers, was launched on International Women’s Day 2012. Edited by Clare Strahan, the book was inspired by the debate about the under-representation of women in writing and publishing. With a foreword by Margo Lanagan, these stirring stories by Cheryl Adam, Helen Addison-Smith, Anne Hotta, Susie Greenhill […]

Published in Overland Issue 211 Winter 2013 ·

Issue 211

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Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Judy Horacek Stephen Wright Rjurik Davidson Features Stephanie Convery Pump On bodybuilding Jill Dimond Ned Kelly’s skull Who took Ned’s head? Jacinda Woodhead All those women Abortion and the Deep North Jennifer Mills and Benjamin Laird Paying the writers A dialogue about writing and money Anwyn Crawford […]

7 June 201319 June 2013 · Writing

An opportunity for writers with a disability

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The CAL Connections project seeks to foster greater editorial diversity in Overland through a series of essays by emerging writers from marginalised or under-represented backgrounds. The next phase of the project will draw attention to ableism both in Australian publishing and in society more broadly.

3 June 20136 June 2013 · Main Posts

Welcome to the new magazine

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Welcome to the new Overland. This new site consolidates Overland’s digital content into an online magazine: a regularly updated complement to the quarterly print journal. Online, Overland will feature regular writing by authors associated with the journal, while making room for new and emerging writers.

24 May 201330 May 2013 · Writing

Congratulations Maxine Beneba Clarke!

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Congrats to long-time Overland contributor and editor of our recent spoken word edition Maxine Beneba Clarke for taking home the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript at last night’s launch of the Emerging Writer’s Festival.

23 May 20132 June 2013 · Culture

Vale Nita Murray-Smith

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Nita Murray-Smith died last Saturday.

17 May 201317 May 2013 · Writing

Seeking fiction from emerging writers

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Overland is seeking fiction from new and emerging writers for a special online edition to be selected by emerging editor, Emily Laidlaw. Submissions close midnight, Monday 3 June.

Published in Overland Issue 189 Summer 2007 ·

Issue 189

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Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Christos Tsiolkas – Torch Song Overland Lecture Ramona Koval In Praise of the Common Reader Features Liz Conor Howard’s Desert Storm Mary-Ellen Stringer The Sky as Common Ground Kevin Foster A Sociable Paradise Tom O’Lincoln Hearts Starve as Well as Bodies Shane Cahill ‘This Fascist Mob’ Jeff Sparrow Theatre […]

Published in Overland Issue 210 Autumn 2013 ·

Issue 210

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Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Rjurik Davidson Features Aaron Bady Zero dark Geronimo The novel in the age of terror Alyena Mohummadally ‘I thought I was the only one!’ CAL–Connections: On coming out queer and Muslim Francesca Rendle-Short Field guide to writing a father On piecing together a relationship Panagiotis Sotiris The […]

15 March 201315 March 2013 · Writing

Results of the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize

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The $6000 major prize in the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets has been won by Luke Fischer with his poem, ‘Augury?’

18 February 201316 October 2013 · Writing

Winners of the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize

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Winning poems for the $9000 prize will be announced Friday 15 March and published in Overland’s first issue of the year.

15 February 2013 · Writing

Audio Overland II: Resistance

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Audio submissions of spoken word poetry are sought for the second edition of Audio Overland, to be published in April 2013.

6 December 2012 · Culture

Reused, rewritten

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‘Plagiarism is necessary. Progress demands it. Staying close to an author’s phrasing, plagiarism exploits his expressions, erases false ideas, replaces them with correct ideas.’

30 November 201230 November 2012 · Main Posts

Prize winners from Subscriberthon 2012

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Here's the complete list of winners for Subscriberthon 2012. If you are one of the forty winners, your prize will be sent out in the next week or so. Thanks to all those Overland readers who subscribed this year, as well as the generous businesses and organisations that donated prizes.

20 November 2012 · Writing

Results of the first Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize

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Announcing the results of the first Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers

20 November 201220 November 2012 · Main Posts

The Realpoetik Manifesto

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For too long has poetry been disregarded as a valid vehicle for the exploration of real world experience. Too often has poetry been filed in the ‘too hard’ basket and deemed ‘irrelevant’ and ‘inaccessible.’ This declaration calls for an end to the mistreatment and marginalisation of poetic language; an end to the segregation of poetry from and by the authoritative discourse of prose. We summon forth the potential of poetry to expand our conceptions and perceptions of the ‘real.’

Published in Overland Issue 209 Summer 2012 ·

Issue 209

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Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Alison Croggon Features Nina Power The pessimism of time The paradoxes facing the Left Everett True Me and Pussy Riot Riot Grrl, Russia and the future of music Fiona Capp Salinger’s toilet The culture of confession Elizabeth O’Shea ‘You can’t dream’ Asylum seekers in indefinite detention Sophie Cunningham Descended […]

15 November 201216 November 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2012: poetry extension (for one day only)

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Entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize – the richest prize for emerging poets – close tonight. So Subscriberthon 2012 is extending for one last day. That means you can take out a subscription, enter your poem at a reduced rate and still go into the draw for the major Subscriberthon prizes. If you're not a poet, you can still take advantage of this loophole to get your subscription while the prizes are still up for grabs.

14 November 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2012: The Last Chance

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Though Overland’s a progressive not-for-profit, we still appreciate the finer things of life – and we’re sure you do, too. That’s why on this, the last day of Subscriberthon 2012, we’re offering enough prizes to make you sick. If you haven’t yet subscribed, make sure you don’t miss out. Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates more than $40 today goes into the draw for the following.

13 November 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2012: Day Seven

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Today is a day to celebrate those of you out there who don’t just have a slight interest in what’s going on in the news, who don’t just casually check the newspaper only when someone’s left a copy of MX on your tram seat, but rather are intensely, obsessively, engaged with the media at all times. Today is for everyone whose magazine subscription list is in the double digits, those who complete a 24 hour news cycle at least twice a day, who wake up reading the newspaper and go to sleep to the sound of BBC World. Media junkies – today is for you!

12 November 201212 November 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2012: Day Six

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Overland’s based in sunny Melbourne and so are many of our friends. Today’s prizes celebrate the city. But never fear – they’re worth having, even if you never set foot in the place. Feast your eyes on the Melbourne-centric booty that’s up for grabs today.

10 November 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2012: Days Four and Five

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Overland’s nothing if not eclectic and so this special weekend Subscriberthon post is about celebrating the pleasure of reading, in all its different guises. If you read across genres – or if you’d like to read across genres – then we’ve got some offers for you! Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates more than $40 becomes eligible for the massive major prizes (scroll down for details), as well as an eclectic array of inducements for this weekend only.

9 November 20129 November 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2012: Day Three

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You read Overland because you’re interested in politics but you’ve also got your finger on the cultural pulse. You like poetry but you love prose. You’re in print but you’re online. You don’t just like art – you’re into music, film, philosophy, theatre. In other words, you, my friend, are a Renaissance Person – and today’s specially for you.

8 November 20128 November 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2012: Day Two

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We know there’s lots of writers out there who like Overland – and even more readers who do, too. Of course, if you subscribe, you get a year’s worth of poetry, fiction and criticism. But if that’s not enough, make sure to sign up right now. That’s because anyone who subscribes, renews or donates more than $40 today is not only eligible for our huge major prizes (scroll to the end for details), but also goes into the draw for some fantastic literary prizes.

7 November 20127 November 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2012: Day One

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Here at Overland, we are all about inclusiveness and diversity, and we know that our readers come in all shapes and sizes. We understand that out there, reading Overland, are poetry lovers, politics fiends, literary lovers, news junkies and everything in between. And we want you to know that we value every one of you. Without you, Overland couldn’t exist – and that’s why we’re kicking off the Subscriberthon with the Day of You.

2 November 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2012 is coming soon!

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In the past few years, in a conservative climate and with the media everywhere in crisis, Overland has massively expanded its operations. We’re publishing more than ever before, in print and online; updating the website daily; running the biggest and most prestigious prizes for emerging writers in Australia; and hosting events all around the country. But we still depend on the support of our community.

4 October 20124 October 2012 · Main Posts

Shortlist for the Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize

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We received more than 600 entries for the first ever Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers.

29 August 2012 · Writing

Interactivity is not a dirty word

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‘Interactivity’ has long acted as a buzzword. It is representative of the relationship we have with the market in general and the media specifically.

18 July 201229 August 2012 · Writing

If William Blake were going to make a poetry ebook

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Someone once told me that the direction that languages follow – left to right, right to left, top to bottom – is decided by the tools that influenced their development. I remember the anecdote more than the teller, but, basically, Hebrew is right to left because right-handed people hold the chisel in their left hand and hammer in their right.

28 June 201229 August 2012 · Writing

The literary equivalent of your underwear drawer

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Can a piece of writing suffer from too much feedback? Writing, it has often been said, is a conversation, so critiques are essential to the process. This is both the lore and the law of writing. But whose notes should we take note of?

19 June 201219 June 2012 · Main Posts

Feminists and porn

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In the freshly printed Overland 207, long-time feminists Gail Dines and Sharon Smith debate the priorities for today’s women’s movement, and where exactly porn fits in the equation.

16 May 201229 August 2012 · Writing

Digital – you keep using that word!

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If technology was going to thwart anything, I’d expect it to be a literary journal. Fittingly enough the current issue of Island is ‘Digitalism’, dedicated to the ‘digital’. It has a collection of essays tackling self-publishing, literary participation and the Australian book publishing industry. Southerly has, as always, two tables of contents: one for print articles and one for their online articles, ‘The long paddock’.

11 May 201212 June 2012 · Culture

Call for spoken word submissions

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Audio submissions of spoken word poetry are sought for a special online presentation of Overland to be published in July 2012. Submissions must be under ten minutes in length, and sent as an audio file via the online submission system at overland.org.au before 12 July 2012. Audio Overland will be guest edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke.

24 April 201229 August 2012 · Writing

I was a teenage zombie

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As a child of the ’80s my interests coincided with the high points of the decade’s nerdiness: Dungeons & Dragons, Choose Your Own Adventures and text adventure games. In text adventure games, most famously Zork, the player would interact with the game by typing out commands like ‘north’ (or just ‘n’) to go north, ‘examine’ objects, ‘look’ to view their environment, ‘give’ and sometimes ‘kill’.

18 April 201218 April 2012 · Writing

Submissions open!

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After a short break to work through a backlog, Overland is now once more accepting submissions of fiction and poetry. See our submissions page for more details.

Published in Overland Issue 206 Autumn 2012 · Politics

CEOs, authors and white-collar work

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We have reached a point where reading and writing are now inseparable from the consumer technology and software that produce them. Those who don’t use computers at their place of employ will almost certainly own a mobile phone – and increasingly, it will be a smart phone, of the kind that have made fortunes for companies and CEOs.

20 March 201228 March 2012 · Main Posts

Winner of the 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize!

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Overland magazine and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are very pleased to announce that the winner of the 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Writers is Joel Ephraims for his poem ‘Rock Candy’.

Published in Overland Issue 206 Autumn 2012 ·

Issue 206

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autumn 2012 ISBN 978-0-9871301-3-6 published 19 March 2012 A mysterious death in Melbourne’s west, the European meltdown, the 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize and much more. Contents Regulars Jacinda Woodhead − Editorial Alison Croggon Rjurik Davison Features Michael Green – Between two oceans Death in Footscray Tariro Mavondo – The dangers of a single […]

16 March 201228 March 2012 · Main Posts

When two Occupy Wall Street activists meet

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What does it mean to be a part of Occupy Wall Street? For me, the meaning has changed and shifted; it changes and shifts every day. Today: co-editing a press statement about ‘Occupy our Dreams’ on Google Docs with people I have never met. Yesterday: teaching my college students about the consensus method and how our classroom would be different if it were run that way; talking about what horizontal power looks like; and then later, in bed, watching the live stream of Occupy Oakland shutting down the ports.

15 March 201228 March 2012 · Main Posts

The White Saviour Industrial Complex

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Some of the more interesting examinations we’ve seen of the Kony story over this past week.

9 March 201226 March 2012 · Main Posts

An excellent way to spend an evening

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Ask the publisher: Essay Find out the process of submission, the editorial relationship and the best publishing avenue for you. This month features guest editors Jeff Sparrow and Chris Feik who specialise in essay and literary writing and will discuss the current opportunities available to essay writers within and beyond their publications. Jeff Sparrow is […]

1 March 201228 March 2012 · Main Posts

The launch of our first ebook, ‘Women’s Work’

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As a response to the debate about gender imbalance in literature and in conjunction with the development of the Stella Prize, Overland has ventured into the world of the ebook with Women’s Work, a collection of five excellent stories by new women writers, with a foreword by Margo Lanagan, and front cover illustration by Japan-based artist, Jenny Terasaki.

22 December 201126 March 2012 · Writing

Small presses and free markets

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Caroline Hamilton is a research fellow in the Department of Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne, and has also worked as a freelance writer and editor. Her latest book One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers, Publishing and Publicity is published by Continuum. We spoke to Caroline about her article ‘Sympathy for the devil?’ which […]

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18 December 201126 March 2012 · Main Posts

Mr Rudd: Protect Assange!

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This is an open letter to Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Attorney-General Nicola Roxon. It calls on the Australian government to take steps to ensure Julian Assange’s human rights are protected. It will be delivered on 19 December 2011, but we encourage members of the public to sign the letter below by adding their full […]

15 December 201126 March 2012 · Main Posts

Lessons from the age of riots and revolution

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An interview with Brad Nguyen Brad Nguyen is the co-editor of Screen Machine, an online magazine on film, media and cultural criticism. He studied Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne and has done film reviewing for Triple R Breakfasters. He chats with us about his essay ‘Morality Begone!’, which is featured in the latest […]

9 December 201126 March 2012 · Main Posts

On Breivik and Europe’s far right

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An interview with Mattias Gardell Mattias Gardell is professor of comparative religion at Uppsala University, Sweden. His research focuses on the interaction between religion and politics, and is the author of a number of publications including In the Name of Elijah Muhammad and Gods of the Blood. Following the terrorist attacks that occurred in Norway […]

1 December 201126 March 2012 · Writing

Inside the mind of Jane Gleeson-White

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Recently, we sat down with Overland fiction editor, Jane Gleeson-White, to pick her brain about her latest book, Double Entry. Q: Overland readers know you as a fiction editor. Most literary types avoid both maths and economics like the devil does holy water. How did you develop and maintain such a diversity of interests? A: […]

24 November 201126 March 2012 · Main Posts

Calling nonfiction writers

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NonfictioNow Conference 2012 RMIT University Call for Panels NonfictioNow is one of the most significant gatherings of writers, teachers and readers of nonfiction from around the world. Three full days of panels, screenings and events will centre on the practice, thinking, communication and writing of nonfiction in all its forms to be hosted by RMIT […]

23 November 201126 March 2012 · Main Posts

Scenes from the world

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22 November 201126 March 2012 · Main Posts

End-of-year merriment

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To launch issue 205 – the last edition of a thrilling publishing year – and to thank our bloggers, contributors and, especially, our readers for the past 360ish days, Overland is having a merry launch/party. Come to Chez Regine at 6pm on Friday 2 December and let us buy you a drink. What about this […]

14 November 201127 March 2012 · Main Posts

A Subscriberthon wrap-up

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Overland would like to offer a gigantic and sincere thank you to everyone who subscribed during the week and a bit that was Subscriberthon. Here in the office, we just employed a highly technical prize-drawing procedure (one involving numbered squares of paper and a bucket) to draw our prizewinners. So, without further ado, the 2011 […]

9 November 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon: The Final Countdown

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It has arrived: the final day of Subscriberthon. We would like to salute our sponsors and all the Overland supporters who have subscribed this past week – thank you one and all. But the mammoth beast that is Subscriberthon is not ready to lie down its endearing head just yet. As regular Meanland contributor Caroline […]

8 November 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon: The poetry of subscribing

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Folks, we have almost made it. It’s the second last day of Subscriberthon, which means we’ll soon stop bombarding you with emails and the blog will resume its daily publication of scintillating and debate-worthy posts. Thank you to everyone who’s subscribed so far. But we still need even more support, because it takes a lot […]

7 November 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon: Radical culture matters

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It’s day 6 of Subscriberthon – have you subscribed yet? If not, it’s likely it simply slipped your mind over the weekend. Or you didn’t realise that you can resubscribe during Subscriberthon and we’ll add another whole year to your subscription, even if it only started last month. Or that you can subscribe loved ones […]

5 November 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon: The Inevitable Movie II

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It’s the weekend of Subscriberthon, but that doesn’t mean you can’t subscribe – that’s the beauty of the internet! Thank you to all those who’ve subscribed so far and congratulations to yesterday’s Spot Prize winners: John Haycock, Judi Morrison and Jackie Wykes. Your prizes are in the post. We appreciate you all so much that […]

3 November 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon: There’s no I in team

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What I love about Overland is its ability to hit the mark with fiction, poetry, essays and reviews. I don’t grab bag Overland; I read it cover-to-cover. That’s a credit to the editors, all of whom have been creative and insightful in their own ways in the decade I’ve read and contributed to the journal. […]

3 November 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon: The Revolution will not be televised

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Or, the Revolution will not be televised (but you might see it on Twitter) So it’s day 2 of Subscriberthon! Thank you to all those who subscribed yesterday and congratulations to our Spot Prize winners – Gary Pearce and Ira Maguire. Huzzah! Moving on. When asked why he thought supporting Overland was important, regular contributor […]

2 November 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon – Blow your own trumpet!

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Well, dear friends, let Overland purse its lips, take Anthony Trollope’s maxim in hand and blow its own trumpet because it’s time once again for our drive to subscribe. Subscribe to Overland during Subscriberthon and help keep alive one of Australia’s most enduring and well-respected literary journals. But wait … there’s more! Thanks to our […]

31 October 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon starts Wednesday

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Dear readers of Overland Subscriberthon is back! From Wednesday 2 November until Wednesday 9 November we are running our annual subscriber drive, a time when we call on readers to commit to Overland by taking out a subscription, a time when you can show your support by keeping one of Australia’s oldest and most beloved […]

27 October 20111 June 2012 · Writing

Overland is looking for writers

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Call-out for submissions to Overland magazine on the Occupy movement Overland magazine is calling for articles, stories and poetry inspired by or about the Occupy movement currently taking place around the world. We want pieces which engage with all areas of the movement including: • its political outlook • its slogans including ‘we are the […]

25 October 201126 March 2012 · Main Posts

Occupy Australia: a debate

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Occupy Australia: where to from here? Mike Stuchbery versus Rjurik Davidson Mike Stuchbery Following forceful evictions from both City Square and Martin Place, the Occupy movement in Australia is at a crossroads. With vision of heavy-handed police tactics across news media and Facebook, many are flocking to the General Assemblies and rallies held in both […]

16 September 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Fail again, fail better

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Jessica Whyte′s essay from Overland 204 about a Left renewal in philosophy is now online.

2 September 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Now that we know what you think

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We’d like to say a gigantic thankyou to everyone who participated in the Overland readers survey. We had nearly 500 responses, more than we expected, and we learned some fascinating things about you: Firstly, you clearly have good taste. Secondly, you could be any age, and are fractionally more likely to be a woman. Many […]

31 August 201127 March 2012 · Writing

In the immediate aftermath of a deeply traumatising event

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Celebrated Australian journalist John Martinkus has covered conflicts in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of A Dirty Little War, Indonesia’s Secret War in Aceh, Quarterly Essay 7: Paradise Betrayed and Travels in American Iraq. In his spare time, he works for SBS Dateline and teaches in the journalism department at the […]

27 August 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Launch of Overland 204 at the Melbourne Writers Festival

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27 August 2011 | 2:30pm – 3:30pm | Venue: ACMI The Cube Launch of Overland 204 Sophie Cunningham does the honours as radical literary journal Overland launches its 204th edition, which features Malalai Joya on Afghanistan and the West, John Martinkus on a kidnapping in Iraq, new writing by emerging female authors and much, much more. […]

17 August 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Hope to see you there!

Editorial team

This is an open invitation to the launch of Overland 204, at the Melbourne Writers Festival at 2.30 pm on Saturday 27 August. Overland 204 is a special, extended edition. It contains Malalai Joya’s thoughts on why Australia must get out of Afghanistan, and John Martinkus’ account of being kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq and […]

16 August 201127 March 2012 · Main Posts

The BDS and Victoria Police

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Republished with permission from Electronic Intifada and Kim Bullimore. In the largest show of support for the Palestinian-initiated boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign so far in Australia, more than 350 persons marched on 29 July in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle – and in opposition to an attempt by Victorian Police to criminalise Palestine […]

15 August 201127 March 2012 · Main Posts

Hari Kunzru: These riots reveal some unpalatable home truths

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Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels Gods without Men and The Impressionist. He lives in Hackney, east London. He has kindly given permission to republish his Guardian article on the recent riots. There’s nothing like fear and hatred to sharpen the senses. The riots have shown Britain some unpalatable truths about itself, making […]

15 August 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Malalai Joya in Australia

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The presence of Australian troops is only beneficial for the bunch of warlords and criminals ruling Afghanistan. The Afghan people face dire conditions as the US and their allies have massacred innocent women, children and men – and are continuing so. Since 2001, tens of thousands civilians have been killed by the blind bombardments of […]

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21 July 20112 April 2012 · Main Posts

Petition in support of David Hicks

Editorial team

On 20 July 2011, the Australian government served David Hicks with a notice of their intent to restrain any funds obtained from the sale of his book, Guantanamo: My Journey, under the Commonwealth Proceeds of Crime Act. After Hicks was captured in Afghanistan and sold to the US by the Northern Alliance, he spent six […]

1 July 201126 March 2012 · Main Posts

Rodney Croome on the history of freedom to marry in Australia

Editorial team

In Overland 203, Rodney Croome has written a groundbreaking and timely essay on the history of marriage in Australia. ‘True and good citizens’ begins: On Friday 13 August 2004, in an unusually emotional debate punctuated by tears and rage, the Australian Senate passed a Howard government amendment to the Marriage Act 1961, defining matrimony as […]

24 June 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Elena Jeffreys on whether the Left should support stricter regulation of the sex industry

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Last month, Overland invited Elena Jeffreys, of Scarlet Alliance, to participate in a debate in our print journal that proposed that the Left should support stricter regulation of the sex industry. Unfortunately, for various reasons, the debate didn’t come to fruition. However, Elena gave us permission to publish her initial argument here on the blog. […]

10 June 201126 March 2012 · Main Posts

Announcing the winners of the Meanland blogging competition

Editorial team

We are thrilled to announce the winners today of the 2011 Meanland blogging competition. At final count, we had over seventy entries and the standard was frankly dismayingly high. In the end we decided that choosing only two was impossible, so we decided to select four excellent bloggers who will each blog once a month […]

9 June 201126 March 2012 · Main Posts

We want to know what you think

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Over the last years, we’ve been experimenting with the format and content of Overland, both online and in print. We think that the innovations have retained Overland‘s traditional spirit, even as they’ve taken the journal to new places. But what’s more important than what we think is what you think. Which is why we’re running […]

Published in Overland Issue 203 Winter 2011 · Main Posts

References

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Janet Afary and Kevin B Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005, p. 206.

Published in Overland Issue 203 Winter 2011 · Main Posts

Correspondence

Editorial team

In ‘Killing the worm in ourselves’ (Boris Kelly, Overland 200), the binaries are, on the one hand, excessive drinking, leading to individual and social harm, spiritual depletion, sexual promiscuity and, on the other, sobriety, leading to individual control, capitalist productivity and a ‘sound … mind and body’.

31 May 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Palestine’s Gandhi: Omar Barghouti, BDS and int’l humanitarian law

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A Ned Curthoys, John Docker & Antony Loewenstein guest post First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. – Mahatma Gandhi Israel is creating a kind of moral schizophrenia in world Jewry. In the outside world, the welfare of Jewry depends on the maintenance of secular, non-racial, […]

20 May 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

International writings: Robin Hemley reflects on ‘Queen for a day’

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Robin Hemley is the author of eight books, and his stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many literary magazines and anthologies. He is the editor of Defunct magazine, where this piece was first published. Robin received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop; he currently […]

2 May 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Justin Clemens on two Dorothies, two Porters

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Overland 202 contains Justin Clemens’ sparkling essay on Dorothy Porter, Peter Porter and Dorothy Hewett. It’s now online for your reading pleasure.

29 April 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Alison Croggon, columnist

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Beginning with issue 202, Alison Croggon is writing a regular column for Overland, one dedicated to books – our ideas of them and our relationships to them. Here’s the first. Enjoy. ‘Some people will tell you that none of these things happened. They’ll say they were just a dream that the three of us shared. […]

28 April 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Looking for a Meanland blogger or two

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The current Meanland blogger is hanging up her spurs so that cutting-edge collaboration between Overland and Meanjin is looking for a blogger. Well, actually, two bloggers. We’re holding a competition to find two bloggers to write fortnightly for the Meanland project. The winners will receive a one-off prize of $200, and be paid $75 per […]

22 April 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

International writings: Aaron Bady on the moral fabric of the American state

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Californian writer and academic Aaron Bady continues our series of regular cross-posts from international writers or journals with similar political or aesthetic sensibilities to Overland. See more of Aaron Bady’s work at zunguzungu, where this piece was originally published. Ignorance and the moral fabric of the American state Last November, Hillary Clinton responded to WikiLeaks’ […]

19 April 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Naomi Klein, John Berger et al: An open letter to Marrickville Council

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Below is an open letter to the Marrickville Council (via Antony Loewenstein) from prominent international academics, writers and artists who support the council’s BDS position. Marrickville Council is voting on the boycott again today. Dear Marrickvile councilors, We the undersigned would firstly like to congratulate the Marrickville Council in Sydney’s Inner West, Australia for their […]

14 April 20111 June 2012 · Writing

CAL Connections: homophobia and the law

Editorial team

Hopefully, many people will have already seen information relating to Overland’s Connections initiative, an attempt to foster greater cultural diversity in the journal through a series of essays by emerging writers from marginalised backgrounds. With support from CAL’s Cultural fund, each of the journal’s next seven editions will feature a major political essay developed in […]

11 April 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

International writings: Stephen Henighan on Berlin and bohemia

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Stephen Henighan continues our series of regular cross-posts from international writers or journals with similar political or aesthetic sensibilities to Overland. Stephen Henighan is a celebrated writer of non-fiction, novels and short stories. He was born in Hamburg, Germany to an English mother and a father whose parents were Scots-Irish immigrants to New York. His […]

8 April 20111 June 2012 · Writing

Clare Strahan speaks

Editorial team

Clare Strahan is an emerging Melbourne writer who has banged out a novel on a manual typewriter by candlelight and is sure that must count for something. She has published a few poems and a couple of short stories, is a freelance editor and flies about the twittersphere as 9fragments. Clare chats with Overland about […]

7 April 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Caroline Hamilton speaks

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Caroline Hamilton is a research fellow in the Department of Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne and has also worked as a freelance writer. Her latest book One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers, Publishing and Publicity is published by Continuum. Caroline chats to Overland about her article ‘The Exposure Economy’. How did you come […]

6 April 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Bob Gosford Speaks

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Bob Gosford is a writer, lawyer and ethnoornithologist who lives and writes in the Northern Territory. He lived for three years in the small township of Yuendumu, 300 kilometres from Alice Springs, and has recently moved from Alice itself up to Darwin where he’s working for the Northern Land Council, an Aboriginal council responsible for […]

5 April 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Patricia Gillespie speaks

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Patricia Gillespie is a writer and editor who has put her career on hold to care full-time for her mother, Marie. Below, Gillespie, a PhD student at the University of Melbourne focusing on aged care and elder rights, gives us an insight into the writing of her Overland 202 article, ‘[In]dignity’. What are you hoping […]

4 April 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Wendy Bacon speaks

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Walkley Award-winning writer and professor Wendy Bacon is the acting director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism in Sydney, an investigative journalist and non-practising media lawyer, a long-time political activist, and has worked and taught around the world. Wendy campaigned against censorship in the 1970s and writes about those experiences for Overland in her […]

1 April 20111 June 2012 · Writing

Rjurik Davidson: Imagining new worlds

Editorial team

For Overland 202, we thought we’d try something different – author interviews and other supplementaries to accompany our published pieces, so you can get more of an insight into how these pieces came to be. Here, Rjurik Davidson, associate editor at Overland and author of The Library of Forgotten Books, chats with Overland intern Clare […]

31 March 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Rundle on Assange

Editorial team

Our new edition – featuring the exquisite illustrations of Shaun Tan, an open letter from Alexis Wright, and essays from Wendy Bacon and Bob Gosford – is out and we’ll be publishing articles from it online over the next few weeks. If you make haste with your subscribing, however, you’ll be certain of securing a […]

30 March 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Poetry Prize announcement & interview

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Overland and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2010 Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Writers: Runners up: Thomas Denton – ‘The Pirouette’ Judy Durrant – ‘and day breaks’ These poems will be published in a subsequent edition of Overland. Competition judge Peter Minter writes: In judging […]

25 March 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

International writings: Elizabeth Kadetsky on Naked City

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Elizabeth Kadetsky continues our series of regular cross-posts from international writers or journals with similar political or aesthetic sensibilities to Overland. Elizabeth Kadetsky’s short stories have been chosen for a Puschart Prize, Best New American Voices and Best American Short Stories notable stories of 2009, and her personal essays have appeared in the New York […]

18 March 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Meanland, busy as a bee

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The next Meanland event, The evolution of the bookshop, is just on the horizon: With Amazon.com, ebooks and print-on-demand, are we seeing the end of the traditional bookstore? In the first Meanland event for 2011, a panel of retailers, e-traders and industry insiders discuss how book selling is changing and what that evolution means for […]

11 March 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Hari Kunzru: Address to the European Writers Parliament

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This is the first of what will become regular cross-posts from international writers or journals with similar political or aesthetic sensibilities to Overland. Over the last few years, the Overland blog has built a small but flourishing community of writers debating politics and culture from a largely Australian perspective. The new cross-posts aim to build […]

2 March 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Literary launch: SJ Finn’s new novel, ‘This Too Shall Pass’

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You are invited to the launch of writer – and Overland blogger – SJ Finn’s new novel, This Too Shall Pass (Sleepers). To be launched by (and we quote) ‘writer, editor and sophisticate, Sophie Cunningham’. When: Thursday 3 March (tomorrow!) Time: 6pm for 6.30 start Place: St Kilda Bowling Club: 66 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda […]

28 February 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts

Congratulations to Shaun Tan

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Congratulations to Shaun Tan for his Oscar for Best Animated Short for ‘The Lost Thing’. The forthcoming Overland 202 contains a special colour feature on Tan and his work. He also contributed this spectacular cover image.

5 January 20115 January 2011 · Main Posts

Wanna intern at Overland?

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Overland magazine is accepting applications for its internship program. Overland is a national literary journal, with a small staff producing a quarterly magazine and a daily website. We publish non-fiction, fiction, poetry, reviews, commentary, opinion pieces and artwork. The magazine is committed to engaging with important literary, cultural and political issues in contemporary Australia and […]

23 December 201023 December 2010 · Main Posts

Politics, economics, cartooning

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In ‘Bruce Petty drawing money’, the last essay from Overland 201 to go online, Robert Phiddian analyses politics and economics in the oeuvre of Australian cartoonist, Bruce Petty. (You’ll need to purchase a copy of 201 to see the accompanying images.) Political cartoonists draw characters and events. They live off the flux of the political […]

20 December 201026 March 2012 · Main Posts

The crowd is our domain

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In his fascinating Meanland essay ‘The crowd is our domain’, featured in Overland 201, Marty Hiatt responds to another Meanland essay, Cate Kennedy’s popular yet divisive ‘Driven to Distraction’. In her article ‘Driven to distraction’ (Overland 199), Cate Kennedy critiques contemporary internet culture from the perspective of the creative writer. While not opposed to the […]

17 December 2010 · Main Posts

The Friday poets

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What do Fiona Wright, Eileen Chong, David Musgrave, Michael Farrell, Adrian Wiggins and Philip Hammial have in common? They’re half the poets featured in Overland 201, which is not only crammed with fiction, but also poetry. Take some time this afternoon to read: Fiona Wright – Terminus Eileen Chong − Tank Man David Musgrave − […]

16 December 201016 December 2010 · Main Posts

The industrialised breast

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In Overland 201, writer and academic Julie Stephens writes a controversial examination on the neoliberalisation of female labour: There used to be a billboard in Melbourne that advertised milk by depicting young, large-breasted women cavorting on a trampoline. The radical graffiti activist group Buga-Up painted the words ‘Women are not cows’ in large letters across […]

15 December 201016 December 2010 · Main Posts

Haunted tales

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‘If it is possible to assess the current state of Australian literature through a reading of four novels published in late September and October 2010,’ says Overland’s new fiction editor and friend of literature everywhere, Jane Gleeson-White, ‘then I’d say Australian fiction is haunted, preoccupied with the past.’ In ‘Haunted tales’ (Overland 201), Gleeson-White pulls […]

14 December 201016 December 2010 · Main Posts

Kath Wilson on craft and flow

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In ‘The rhythm of engagement’ in Overland 201 (which can be yours to own), former Overland editor Katherine Wilson probes the world of craft labour: Forty-three-year-old Gilda Civitico and I are sipping tea and talking about craft in the open-plan rear extension of the modest brick home she shares with her partner, electrical engineer Andrew […]

13 December 2010 · Main Posts

A big Australia?

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In the recently released Overland 201, Dr Mark Diesendorf and former Greens senator Andrew Bartlett debate a progressive response to population policy and Gillard’s declaration that Australia ‘should not hurtle down the track towards a big population’. Mark Disendorf begins: Long before population became a public issue, debate had been stirring behind the scenes. There […]

10 December 201010 December 2010 · Main Posts

The legacy of humanitarian imperialism

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Overland editor Jeff Sparrow is making waves this week: writing to the Prime Minister and crashing internets; arguing, with teammate Adam Bandt, for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan; speaking on the BBC, on RRR, at Melbourne’s WikiLeaks demo. He’s also penned one of the lead essays in Overland 201, which traces the history and discourse of […]

6 December 20106 December 2010 · Main Posts

Focus on young writers: Cassie Wood

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The final author feature in Overland 201’s ‘Young Writers’ section is Cassie Wood. Her story is ‘Eddy’. Cassie is a second-year writing student living in Melbourne. She talks here with Kalinda Ashton and Samuel Cooney. Why write? Why not? I think if you ask yourself this question, that’s when things get messy and you start […]

3 December 20103 December 2010 · Main Posts

Focus on young writers: Frank Boyce

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Frank Boyce is the third author featured in the ‘Young Writers’ section of Overland 201 with his story ‘Minerals are not nomads’. Frank is a writer and student living in Melbourne. He’s interviewed here by Kalinda Ashton and Samuel Cooney. Why write? Terry Eagleton speaks about artistic or cultural production as different groups of people […]

2 December 20102 December 2010 · Main Posts

Focus on young writers: Sam Twyford-Moore

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Today, we’re featuring the second author in Overland 201’s ‘Young Writers’ section: Sam Twyford-Moore. Sam’s story is ‘Library of Violence’. He is one of the founding editors of Cutwater. His non-fiction has appeared in Meanjin and the Reader. He is currently finishing his first novel. He was interviewed by Kalinda Ashton and Samuel Cooney. Why […]

1 December 20101 December 2010 · Main Posts

And that’s a wrap

Editorial team

Dear Overland community, Subscriberthon 2010 was a smashing success. For your subscriptions, donations, writings, and tremendous support, we thank you. Now, on to the prizes. Dear people whose names appear on the following list, consider yourself an Overland Subscriberthon winner: Major prize (books, T-shirts, wine & stuff): Susan McCreery Monday 29 November The Monday Meanjin […]

1 December 20101 December 2010 · Main Posts

Focus on young writers: Rebecca Giggs

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For her final edition as fiction editor, Kalinda Ashton wanted to showcase young writers. In Overland 201, she worked with Samuel Cooney to curate a special expanded fiction section, featuring four writers under thirty. Over the next days, we will be introducing each of the writers in that section through interviews put together by Kalinda […]

29 November 201020 July 2012 · Main Posts

Overland Subscriberthon 2010: the final countdown

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The Overland 2010 Subscriberthon ends today. If you haven’t yet subscribed or resubscribed, please consider signing up. Overland publishes fiction and non-fiction that you won’t read anywhere else. In an increasingly grim media landscape, Overland has kept the flame of radical culture alive for more than fifty years. But now — as in the past […]

27 November 201020 July 2012 · Main Posts

Weekend Subscriberthon: Let there be reading (and reference materials)

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What’s the weekend for if not reading and subscribing, or subscribing and reading, followed by further reading when your prizes turn up in your mailbox before next weekend? Leap on to the Overland Subscriberthon bandwagon this weekend to win: This is the Griffith Review prize Contains the last 5 issues of the always-stimulating Griffith Review, […]

26 November 201020 July 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon Day 5: It’s Friday, you need a drink – and a good book

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Strawberries and cream. Horses and carriages. Writers and alcohol. Nothing is a more natural fit, especially on a Friday. That’s why anyone who subscribes or resubscribes today goes into the running for, along with all the other general prizes, one of four crates of Platypus Gully wine. Here’s the skinny on Platypus Gully: Made from […]

25 November 201020 July 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon Day 4: It’s a non-fictiony kind of day, lucky you

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As Mungo MacCallum said last week, ‘At a time when all kinds of publishing in Australia are under threat, either from the internet or from monopoly interests, the continued survival of magazines like Overland becomes ever more critical. With its long tradition of genuine culture, support for new writers and providing alternative viewpoints, Overland is […]

24 November 201020 July 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon Day 3 – One for the poets

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As many of you may know, on Wednesdays, we let Overland editor Jeff Sparrow out of the office and onto the airwaves of 102.7 FM 3RRR, where he talks all things poetic and literary with the distinguished alicia sometimes. In celebration of this fact, Day 3 of Subscriberthon is dedicated to the poets, and the […]

23 November 201020 July 2012 · Main Posts

Overland Subscriberthon Day 2 – Things are warming up

Editorial team

The first day of Subscriberthon 2010 went off with a gigantic bang, and we thank you. But we’re only a fraction of the way to meeting our Subscriberthon 2010 target, a target that ensures we continue to provide our print content online for free, operate our feisty and dynamic blog and, importantly, keep publishing a […]

22 November 201022 November 2010 · Main Posts

Overland Subscriberthon Day 1 – Still fighting the powers that be

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Morning, welcome to the Overland Subscriberthon 2010. Over the next week you’ll see guest blog posts by Australian luminaries such as Alison Croggon, James Bradley, Roberta Lowing and Antony Loewenstein, and much-admired Overland regulars like Koraly Dimitriadis, Boris Kelly, Michael Brull, and many more. There’ll be spot prizes and competitions and you’ll go into the […]

18 November 201019 November 2010 · Main Posts

Overland Subscriberthon: The Inevitable Movie

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15 November 201015 November 2010 · Main Posts

Overland magazine wants you!

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As a subscriber, that is. Our annual fundraising drive – Subscriberthon – is running 9am Monday 22 to 5pm Monday 29 November. During that week, our website will be transformed into a Subscriberthon carnival of guest posts from celebrated writers and bloggers, competitions and a general air of festivity and collectivity. Subscribe during that week […]

11 November 201015 November 2010 · Main Posts

Meanland event: Reading without privacy

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Announcing a very exciting Meanland event – and the last for 2010 – Reading Without Privacy. Today, we’re all reading and writing more than ever, on text messages, on Twitter and on Facebook. But has social networking broken down the distinction between our public and our private lives? What are the rules for writing in […]

11 November 201015 November 2010 · Main Posts

Poets, listen up!

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Poets, listen up: the 2010 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets, sponsored by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, closes Monday. In case you haven’t heard, the major prize is a magnificent $5000 – plus there are two runner-up prizes of $1000 a piece. This year’s judge is Overland’s distinguished new poetry editor, […]

18 October 201018 October 2010 · Main Posts

Christopher Madden replies to Ben Eltham

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Ben Eltham’s article from Overland 200, ‘Culture is bigger than the arts’, has spurred considerable discussion. Here, we publish a response from cultural policy researcher and analyst Christopher Madden. Madden argues: Eltham also suggests that ‘[a]s online, networked and digital forms of culture continue to grow and proliferate, the Australia Council’s policy ambit becomes correspondingly […]

8 October 2010 · Main Posts

The best thing on the internet by far

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Without a doubt the best discovery I have made on the internet of late is Gogol Bordello.* Here they are with ‘Immigraniada’: Oh, and look, here they are again, ‘When universes collide’: How ‘bout you? Got any Best of the Internet to share? Videos, critiques, music, blogs, other hidden jewels, they’re all welcome, just leave […]

5 October 2010 · Main Posts

Tonight! Cherchez la Femme: Feminism and the Arts

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How does being a feminist affect your art? Why do women basically staff the entire arts sector and yet very few are in positions of real power? And which creative industries are the most sexist? Explore these topics and more at tonight’s extra special Fringe instalment of the monthly digest of popular culture and current […]

5 October 2010 · Main Posts

Remarkable fiction

Editorial team

Overland 200 contains some rather remarkable fiction – about whales and art criticism and ebay addicts – from writers Karen Hitchcock, Janette Turner Hospital and Christos Tsiolkas. They can now be read online. Here’s a tantalising paragraph or two to whet your appetite: ‘Forging friendships’ – Karen Hitchcock Hannah replied to my Facebook request for […]

5 October 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts

Meanland: On ‘anonymous’ sources

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

‘[W]hat bothers me,’ wrote Christian Kerr in last week’s Australian in regards to the outing of Grog’s Gamut author, Greg Jericho, ‘is that someone seriously expected they could stay anonymous online in this day and age.’ Clearly, Kerr reads a different internet to the average reader. Or there’s a mysterious social order he’s aware of […]

27 September 20101 October 2010 · Main Posts

To drink or not to drink

Editorial team

Boris Kelly, one of Overland’s regular bloggers, has an essay in Overland 200 on Australia’s alcohol habit, ‘Killing the worm in ourselves’. It begins like so: C2H5OH, or ethyl alcohol, is a clear, colourless, volatile and flammable oxygenated hydrocarbon produced by the fermentation of sugar that is used, among other things, in the preparation of […]

27 September 2010 · Main Posts

New editors, new competition, new poem

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Editors Overland is pleased to announce the appointment of new editors for 2011. From edition 202, the poetry editor is Peter Minter and the fiction editor is Jane Gleeson-White. Peter Minter is a leading contemporary Australian poet, editor and scholar. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Empty Texas and blue grass, […]

24 September 201027 September 2010 · Main Posts

When writing Australia

Editorial team

In Overland 200, Marion Rankine examines originality or lack thereof when writers write Australia, ‘Sometimes it takes a writer’: Flicking through an old issue of Overland (edition 182) I came across an essay by Malcolm Knox entitled ‘Pushing Against the Real World: The Case for “Original” Australian Fiction’. It sparked my interest – I was […]

23 September 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts

Meanland: Putting the community back in culture (and not a moment too soon)

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

The last few Meanland posts have focused on the nature of copyright and how it works and affects reading, writing and publishing in our new settlements on the digital frontier. Many people feel a distinct sense of impending doom, as though creative and financial control have been wrested from the hands of writers, artists and […]

20 September 2010 · Main Posts

Ben Eltham on the Australia Council

Editorial team

In Overland 200, Ben Eltham makes a provocative argument about the future of the Australia Council. Here’s a snippet. The Australia Council has lost its way … It has failed to meaningfully engage with the arts practices of everyday Australian artists and no longer enjoys the support of many of those who create art in […]

17 September 201012 October 2010 · Main Posts

White people: what the hell is your problem?

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That’s a clip from a Fear of a Brown Planet live show. In Overland 200, Jacinda Woodhead investigates the FOBP hip-hop workshops in Footscray, Melbourne.

16 September 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts

Meanland: Regarding the very modern ebook machine thing

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

At the conclusion of his column in the July/August issue of The Believer, Nick Hornby – a popular novelist with an aptitude for imparting his reading habits – promised: ‘In next month’s exciting episode, I will describe an attempt, not yet begun, to read Our Mutual Friend on a very modern ebook machine thing. It’s […]

16 September 201016 September 2010 · Main Posts

Alison Croggon on nationalism in theatre

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Writer, poet and bloggerAlison Croggon recently spoke in the Wheeler Centre as part of the Critical Failure series. Her article from Overland 200 on Australianism in contemporary theatre is now online.

13 September 201016 September 2010 · Main Posts

Anorexia, capitalism, riot-grrrl

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In Overland 197, Anwyn Crawford contributed a devastating critique of Nick Cave, one of the most-discussed articles we’ve published in the past year or so. For Overland 200, she’s written a much-needed intervention tackling some of the major issues in contemporary feminism. It begins like this: A chart hung above the chalkboard in Mrs Brandie’s […]

Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 200 Spring 2010 · Main Posts

Hip hop in the Wild West

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

I am late as I reach the sunken brick building housing the Hip-hop Academy. It is a sunny winter’s day and the Maribyrnong River flashes, rocking in time with the tide, out back of the Footscray Community Arts Centre. A clean-shaven, long-limbed man in black pants, Run DMC T-shirt and hi-top sneakers greets me. I recognise Aamer Rahman; he’s 27 but could pass for an adolescent.

10 September 201010 September 2010 · Main Posts

The burqa and cruise missile liberals

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Late last month, the Age published a piece by Sushi Das re-opening the so-called ‘burqa debate’. Das argued: The burqa is not just confronting, it is frightening because of what it looks like and what it stands for. You simply cannot discuss it without at least a passing glance at what is happening to women […]

6 September 201012 October 2010 · Main Posts

Meanland: Doctorow on Copyright vs Creativity

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Cory Doctorow spoke in Melbourne on Thursday night as part of the Meanland and Melbourne Writers Festival ‘Big Ideas’ lecture series. For those unable to attend, I have transcribed below as much as I could from my indecipherable notes on the lecture, ‘Copyright vs creativity’. Rule number 1: If there’s a lock for something and […]

1 September 201012 October 2010 · Main Posts

Cory Doctorow.
Melbourne, tomorrow night.
Copyright vs Creativity.

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This is Cory Doctorow. You may remember him from such popular, madcap adventures as Boing Boing. Or one of his many, many books, including his latest, Little Brother. Or the Makers revolution (no, I do not mean his novel by the same name). As you read these words, he’s flying across vast, most likely mountainous, […]

27 August 201028 August 2010 · Main Posts

Overland editors speak out

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

The 200th issue of Overland has arrived! Well, in the office, at least. You, dear reader, can buy it tomorrow at ‘Magazine’, a free Overland session at the Melbourne Writers Festival. It promises to be a scintillating morning filled with interviews, conversations and special guest writers with monikers like Alison Croggon, Maria Tumarkin, Kalinda Ashton […]

18 August 201019 August 2010 · Main Posts

Meanland – ‘No thanks, I’ve seen an old issue at the library’: on the responsibility of the reader for the decline of publishing

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

So you, the reader, want to save independent publishing in Australia? Go forth and buy a book. Be daring: buy an armful. The truly intrepid might add a subscription, or several, to one of Australia’s exceptional literary journals – a commitment to the health of the Australian literary scene, if you will. This isn’t to […]

13 August 201029 August 2012 · Main Posts

Labor running scared?

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So I received this in my PO Box this morning. No envelope. Apparently members can use their union membership to campaign for the ALP – but not for the actual issues mentioned (it’s good that the unions would use their workplaces to campaign for issues but why just for the ALP?). The text can also […]

5 August 201010 August 2010 · Main Posts

The drinks are on Overland

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The beginning Overland’s 200th issue, believe it or not, has just gone to print. That’s 56 years and 200 issues. Who would’ve thought a humble, left-wing magazine founded by Realist Writers group from the Communist Party would still be hale and hearty in 2010? And not just hale, not just hearty, but at the forefront […]

5 August 201012 October 2010 · Main Posts

Time and space and the literary journal

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Yesterday I read the most scintillating post over at Nieman Journalism Lab: ‘Following up on the need for follow-up‘. It was the kind of piece you read and wish you’d written, and can be summarised thusly: we need to move beyond our news cycles – ‘the daily paper, the nightly newscast, the monthly magazine’ – […]

4 August 2010 · Main Posts

Remembering Tony Abbott

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

GetUp! has a new ad about Tony Abbott and his archaism:

30 July 201030 July 2010 · Main Posts

Reading like your sanity depends upon it

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We at Overland don’t only take pleasure in deleting commas and rearranging words; we are also ardent readers. Things we have been reading lately include: Rjurik Davidson Last week I finished Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety, which brilliantly documents the French Revolution from the point of view (mainly) of Desmoulins, Robespierre and Danton. […]

29 July 2010 · Main Posts

Thinking about democracy

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

It is odd, how we think of democracy these days – as something ordinary, inherent to the West, something to strive for yet something taken for granted, also. It is a concept that has plagued the politically vexed mind since time immemorial, well, at least since our ancient forebears. Aristotle envisioned it, Plato feared it […]

29 July 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts

The democratisation of publishing (and a bit of Clay Shirky for good measure)

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

A brandspanking new Meanland post: The idea that the printing press democratised reading, writing and ideas is widely embraced. This is not to suggest it was – or remains in its internet incarnation – politically progressive or, indeed, revolutionary. Matthew Battles reminds us: The printing press never only produced the kind of deep reading we […]

22 July 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – Amazon and that old fudging figures manoeuvre

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Unless you slept through yesterday (or for some incomprehensible reason went offline), you probably heard how Amazon won the book wars, summed up so succinctly in this New York Times headline: E-Books Top Hardcovers at Amazon: Monday was a day for the history books — if those will even exist in the future. Amazon.com, one […]

21 July 201021 July 2010 · Main Posts

On Manning, Lamo, WikiLeaks, Greenwald, new media and old journalism

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

I have an article up at Drum about all of the above: How has the online temperament of news changed journalism? In Katrina Fox’s article on objectivity, transparency and advocacy in journalism, “What’s your bias?”, Marcus O’Donnell, lecturer in journalism, explains: [O]bjectivity was a trust mechanism we relied on in media that didn’t do links. […]

16 July 201016 July 2010 · Main Posts

A response to harvest

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

My curiosity piqued by a question beneath a review on our blog of the latest harvest, I hurried home to read its editorial. And read its editorial I did – with a burgeoning sense of unease. The editorial responded to Ted Genoways’ article in Mother Jones earlier this year, ‘The death of fiction?’ Genoways argued […]

12 July 201013 July 2010 · Main Posts

Finding Clarke and Dawe

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

This Monday morning, I’ve decided to share my growing appreciation of John Clarke and Bryan Dawe: On asylum seekers Gillard’s first interview as PM John Howard and the politics of fear

8 July 20108 July 2010 · Main Posts

On the NLF, ASIO and the Vietnam War

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Michael Hyde’s excerpt from his memoir All Along the Watchtower (Vulgar Press) in Overland 199 is a tale fraught with intrigue, radical student politics and the tension surrounding the Vietnam War in Australia. But don’t take our word for it; see for yourself: Headquarters ASIO HQT 67/972 Michael Dudley HYDE Enquiries conducted by this Office […]

8 July 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – At the mercy of our instruments

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

A writer needs their tools. Chisel Quill Ink Parchment Chalk Pencil Paper Crayon Biro Fountain pen Notepad Typewriter Word Processor ThinkPad Personal Computer Macbook iPhone iPad Tablet What do all these tools have in common? They help us make permanent that thing that makes us human: language. Language marshalled into journals, books, literary fiction, non-fiction, […]

7 July 201029 August 2012 · Main Posts

On Carey’s version of literacy and democracy

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I recently watched Peter Carey’s closing address to the Sydney Writers’ Festival. In the video, he lectures earnestly about people once reading in the ‘shearing sheds, lending libraries, mechanics institutes’ and ‘the trenches’ (he even uses Gallipoli, and Burke and Wills to stress his point), imploring everyone to teach children Shakespeare because it will even […]

1 July 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – On Wholphin, and other things McSweeney

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but journals are no longer confined to the printed periodical. Shocking, yet true. Even in traditional publishing spheres, content production is being approached in pioneering ways. The publishing house that immediately comes to mind – and I swear I’m not a McSweeney’s fanatic – is, well, McSweeney’s. McSweeeny’s publish […]

29 June 20103 July 2010 · Main Posts

On copyright and Australian cinema

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The Meanland essay in Overland 199 is written by author, SPUNC President and Wet Ink fiction editor, Emmett Stinson. ‘The pirate code’ delves into the underbelly of copyright during the digital revolution – and comes to some surprising conclusions: Right now publishers are abuzz with discussions of ‘book futures’ and the digital revolution, but there […]

24 June 201024 June 2010 · Main Posts

The incalculable cultural significance of The Library

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Library memories When I think back over my childhood, and how I spent time, I remember libraries. For a long time I lived in a country town, and during school holidays, the wait between the return of the mobile library seemed endless. Then it would return, I’d read the books in a couple of days, […]

24 June 20101 July 2010 · Main Posts

Et tu, Gillard?

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Overnight the face of contemporary Australian politics – that lacklustre, bureaucratic, increasingly-resembling-a-trainwreck Rudd – was met with a leadership challenge. This comes on the back of a downward plummet in the polls [debatable] and numerous backflips on the ETS, refugees, Afghanistan and recent confrontations over the RSPT – ‘that great, big fat tax’ the mining […]

23 June 201023 June 2010 · Main Posts

The poetry of Overland 199

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The poetry from Overland 199 is now available online. If you’re not currently a subscriber, and have not yet managed to track a down a copy, read them online and see why Overland has such a fine reputation: Cameron Fuller − ‘There’s a bomb on this train of thought’ Sue Watson − ‘Brush turkey’s’ J […]

22 June 20101 July 2010 · Main Posts

‘Women are no longer prepared to put up and shut up’

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One of our esteemed Overland bloggers, Trish Bolton, has an opinion piece about sexual harassment in the workplace in today’s Age, ‘Women are no longer prepared to put up and shut up’: HE CORNERED me at the back of the shop, stood over me and ripped open my vest, swearing when he saw I was […]

17 June 201019 June 2010 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – The great paywall of Murdoch

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Murdoch wants to put our news behind a paywall, beginning with The Times and The Sunday Times, via a new payment model supposed to kick in in the very near future. Doubtless this is something he’s been planning since his first forays into the internet – like the purchase of MySpace – proved financially fruitless. […]

10 June 201012 October 2010 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – New publishing models: a shifting of power

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Guest post – Sam Cooney This article appeared in the May issue of WQ, the Queensland Writers Centre’s monthly publication. Past issues are online, as is a wealth of other info for Queensland and Australian writers. Publishing isn’t dying. Don’t believe anyone who says it is, because they are reckless and hunting for headlines. Yes, […]

3 June 20103 June 2010 · Main Posts

Israel, film festivals and the BDS

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

I have an article up at Drum about the Melbourne International Film Festival and their cultural partner, the state of Israel. It begins: The Melbourne International Film Festival is receiving Liberty Victoria’s free speech award, the Voltaire award, for its “refusal to buckle in the face of intense pressure from a foreign government and a […]

3 June 2010 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – The iPad: tool of revolution or contrivance of capitalism?

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

It’s already a revolution and it’s only just begun. We’ve all heard the grandiose claims: iPad sales hit 2 million in less than two months; the iPad can be used as a language interface for dolphins; the iPad will save newspapers, magazines, books, the print industry in general; the iPad is a revolution in reading. […]

27 May 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – What is it that makes the web so amazing?

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

‘Fess up: who remembers a time when there was no internet? Once upon a time, if a child, student, writer or reader wanted to know something, they would have to march off to the library* – a day’s hike to the great metropolis on the horizon, for some – and physically track down obscure and […]

26 May 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – Poetry, gaming, science and more: reading in a time of technology

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Heading to the @wheelercentre for @Mean_land Reading in a Time of Technology. Should be interesting.less than a minute ago via TweetieSuzanneSteinbrucknerOfficialSuze Apologies to anyone unable to attend last night’s second official Meanland event at The Wheeler Centre, because it was a fantastic adventure. Not only was it riveting and engaging, it was positively electrifying; every […]

19 May 2010 · Main Posts

What your atheism costs you

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Suddenly the world is awash in burqa suspicion and vitriol. In the past fortnight, headlines have been dominated by bans and proposed bans in Belgium, France and Denmark (home to only three women who wear the burqa), to our own shores, and the boorish postulating of Cory Bernardi: In my mind, the burka has no […]

13 May 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – There are some people not on Twitter (a post for the modern-day luddite)

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Facebook is all the people you go to school with. Twitter is all the people you wish you went to school with. So said some incisive, possibly adolescent, tweeter last week. I joined Twitter last July and, as of this morning, have 1165 tweets. Is that a lot? Almost certainly, yes, but I think the […]

7 May 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

On Deveny’s dismissal: you’ve tapped into the wrong outrage

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Let’s be honest now: is there anyone who truly believes Catherine Deveny was advocating for or supporting paedophilia? The only crimes we can charge her with are bad taste and an inability to judge public reaction, hardly hanging offences. What other commentators have failed to grasp about the whole debacle are the sinister implications of […]

6 May 2010 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – An argument for long form

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Long form: long-form journalism, long form online; you may have heard the term bandied about but a definition will prove elusive. ‘Long form’ makes me think of p-books1. In the same way we have e-books and p-books, we now have the short essay, the blog post and lately, the long-form essay. The fact that we […]

3 May 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

Overland and bias: a response to some critics

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A few days ago, we received a letter (published below) signed by six Australian academics: Professor Bernard Rechter, Professor Douglas Kirsner, Professor Andrew Markus, Dr Bill Anderson, Dr Nick Dyrenfurth and Associate Professor Philip Mendes. They were, they said, collectively writing to the board of Overland and to its patron, Barry Jones, about ‘recent editorial […]

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30 April 2010 · Main Posts

When the revolution comes

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

When the revolution comes, it will more than likely be on a Monday. But we’ll need the weekend to prepare. And a soundtrack. Here are some suggestions; feel free to add your own. When the revolution comes – The Last Poets Jailbreak – Yothu Yindi (We don’t need this) Fascist groove thang – Heaven 17 And […]

29 April 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts

Meanland extract: Numbers, numbers and more numbers – online stats, blogging stats, twitter stats, reading stats, etcetera

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Although we may not always recognise our bondage, we live, in modern times, under a tyranny of numbers – (paraphrasing) Nicholas Eberstadt Numbers are appealing. They equate to fact and accuracy; they help us to interpret the world and its workings. We can dispute the significance of numbers but we can’t dispute they exist, nor […]

25 April 20101 May 2010 · Main Posts

Sick of arguing with white dudes on the Internet

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

What can you expect from a couple of musicians – albeit, ‘well-schooled, culture-crossing MCs drop[ping] nuggets of sharp social commentary’ – with a self-described style of ‘deconstructionist’, who cite Edward Said and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as their influences? If you were thinking: possibly a critique of race, class, ethnicity and pop culture framed through a […]

22 April 20101 May 2010 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – So you’re writing a blog post?

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Writing for the Internet is not like writing a novel. Seriously, they’re galaxies apart. Writing an essay and writing a blog post aren’t galaxies apart; more like the distance between the nearest open cluster of stars and me. Clearly, I’m referring to non-fiction here, rather than fiction or poetry or experimental writing. I’m not talking […]

15 April 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – The Google Reader will creep up and steal all your spare reading/writing time in the blink of an eye

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Incredibly (given how much I time I devote to talking about it), I am a recent convert to the whole Google Reader thing (three weeks and counting), and would possibly have never stumbled upon the technology if a fellow blogger had not made a seemingly innocent remark (thank you, Joshua Mostafa). The Google Reader fetish […]

13 April 20101 July 2010 · Main Posts

Overland extract: Margaret Simons on text in the electronic world

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In Overland 198, Margaret Simons looks at the possibilities for text and reading in the digital age, and reminds us that reading does not begin and end with the novel: Like most seasons, this summer has been a time of books in my household, a place that, for the holiday period, has spanned the generations. […]

8 April 20101 July 2010 · Main Posts

Overland extract: Mungo MacCallum on Rudd and the boat people

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In Overland 198, Mungo MacCallum examines Labor’s policies towards refugees: The first duty of any government is the defence of its citizenry, and that is why border protection is vital to Australia. It is easy to argue that the boat people are few in number, desperate and helpless, simple seekers of shelter; they pose no […]

8 April 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – You are not reading enough

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Reading anxiety (different to the semiotic anxiety of reading that involves wresting with signs, decoding and privilege) has me in its ice-cold clutches of late. I find that I am breaking out in feelings of inadequacy and time-negligence while I play Words with friends on my iPhone or spend a day experimenting in the kitchen […]

31 March 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – The lowdown on the eReader

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Roughly 5 million eReaders were sold around the world in 2009. For the uninitiated, the world of the eReader can be positively perplexing, brimming with assumed knowledge. The Kindle is possibly the most recognised reader, with the much talked about but as yet unreleased iPad a close second. Then again, a quick Google search reveals […]

30 March 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

On the [il]legality of drone attacks

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

The Lede blog in the New York Times today has a post by Robert Mackey, ‘Drone Strikes Are Legal, U.S. Official Says’. Highly recommend reading. I’ve embedded a video from the post in which Harold Hongju Koh, the US State Department’s top lawyer, defends the ‘legitimacy’ of drone attacks and targeted assassinations. As Mackey points […]

24 March 201024 March 2010 · Main Posts

Meanland extract – SXSW: forecasting how we will read, write and create

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

‘It puts you in the position of a journalist, in a way’, said Margaret Atwood late last year when asked how the Internet has changed her relationship to her readers. ‘You become the journalist of yourself. Which is really weird.’ Margaret Atwood has not only enthusiastically embraced life online, but has also gone one step […]

16 March 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

The Monday review – all out of words

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Sometimes you have those days where thought is drowned out by all the other noise and you’re simply moving in circles. So I’ll let these writers use their words to say everything better. 1. ‘In creeps political conservatism’ by Marieke Hardy And they put it out there, they set it out amongst us and let […]

11 March 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

105 000 tattoos

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

While we’re on politics and art and setting things on fire, Iraqi American artist Wafaa Bilal is trying to grapple with the enormity of the death toll in Iraq. In this video, courtesy of Democracy Now, he discusses his latest project, …and Counting – a 24-hour live tattooing performance. He also talks about his previous […]

8 March 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

The Monday review – write what you think when you think about Afghanistan

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

I’ve had this idea about writing lately that just won’t be stilled. Not wholly my idea (as if they exist) and it’s not limited to, though this review focuses on, writing. The idea goes like this: perhaps there is something unhealthy about the state of writing today in Melbourne, in Australia, around the world. Too […]

1 March 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

The Monday review – people are animals

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Well, we’ve all thought it; here are some links exploring the idea. 1. On separating neurological pathways so mammals don’t feel pain when they’re factory farmed. 2. On rights and self-regulation: Apple learning from the factory farming industry. At least eleven 15 year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories that […]

22 February 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

The Monday review – the simple art of murder

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Some Monday afternoon links, skirting around the edges of murder, which may have earlier escaped your attention. 1. On Mossad and murder – ‘Meir Dagan: the mastermind behind Mossad’s secret war’. 2. On Australian soldiers and their use of drones in Afghanistan – ‘The law of instant death’. [There exist] big flaws in the training […]

18 February 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

Convicted on fanaticism

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

A citizen’s response Fifty-seven years ago a young Milo Radulovich was dismissed from the US Air Force, deemed a ‘security risk’. His crime? A ‘close and continuing’ relationship with a father from Yugoslavia, and a sister who picketed a hotel that wouldn’t have Paul Robeson as a guest. Radulovich didn’t take McCarthy’s word for his […]

12 February 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

Aboriginal Control of Aboriginal Affairs

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Saturday 13 February National Day of Action: Stop the NT intervention 2 pm MAYSAR Gertrude St Fitzroy ‘The victory over apartheid was, in other words, the result of mass action, not only in South Africa but here in Australia, too.’ So what’s the NT intervention, if not a little apartheid?

11 February 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

There’s no censorship here

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

(I should preface this post with a disclosure: I’m a long-time Melbourne International Film Festival [MIFF] attendee, and am quite partial to cinema.) This week we learned that Richard Moore’s position as executive director of the Melbourne International Film Festival will not be renewed. Finally, I thought, there is some kind of justice in Melbourne. […]

8 February 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

New law requires women to name baby and paint nursery before getting abortion

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

An Abbottonian prophecy – courtesy of The Onion. (There is, unfortunately, a 15 second advert for Zombieland first.)

2 February 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

How blogging and hip-hop are undermining the US military from within

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

‘I bet you never stop-loss nobody no more.’ Iraq veteran Marc Hall, aka hip-hop artist Marc Watercus, is currently in pre-trial confinement awaiting court-martial in Georgia. He was jailed on 11 December because he wrote and performed a song called ‘Stop-loss’ – which he then sent to the Pentagon after learning that they were sending […]

30 January 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

This is what a war crime looks like

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

Actually, no. This is what a civilian massacre by Blackwater contractors in Iraq looks like.

25 January 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

‘Yo comments are whack’

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

For all those who have comment fatigue due to the racist, sexist, homophobic and grammatically incorrect commenting occurring all over the internet. Disclaimer: I’m not opposed to a lack of capitalisation.

20 January 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

‘Who cares about gender at a time like this?’

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

According to a post on the SPUNC blog last week, independent Australian publishing does. Laurie Steed wrote that there aren’t enough women submitting to journals and publishers in Australia: Of the 200 submissions received by Affirm Press, around 80 percent have been from male writers. This year also sees the release of the next Sleepers […]

17 January 201012 May 2010 · Main Posts

And while we’re on the topic of Haiti

Jacinda Woodhead and Editorial team

You didn’t have to be a Marxist political analyst to see what the US was going to do after the disaster – see Jeff’s ‘the politics of misery’. Imperialist agendas include, but are not restricted to: bringing in the military denying planes with aid permission to land coordinating efforts with Israel And now we have […]

2 October 20092 October 2009 · Main Posts

Is there anywhere poetry can’t go?

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Have you heard of the Sea Things poetry project? It is The Red Room Company’s new national poetry project and it was launched yesterday in Hobart. Sea Things is commissioning new works from four exciting Australian poets, and travelling around the country by sea to collect maritime poems from members of the public, writers and […]

Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 196 Spring 2009 · Main Posts

feature | Thomas Shepherd

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OVERLAND 196 spring 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-3-4 published 22 August 2009 A life in mirrors Jeff Sparrow and Rjurik Davidson meet Thomas Shepherd, a former ASIO informer Thomas Shepherd does not seem like a spy. He walks slowly, gently, into the Overland office, and accepts a proffered cup of tea. He speaks softly; his tone measured, […]

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