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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Elizabeth Claire Alberts

Elizabeth Claire Alberts has a PhD in creative writing, and has taught creative writing at Macquarie University for six years. Her work has been widely published, appearing in journals such as Axon, Island magazine, Great Ocean Quarterly, and Earth Island Journal.

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16 January 201717 February 2017 · Reflection

Crying wolf

Elizabeth Claire Alberts

For someone dealing with the grief, shame and anger after a sexual assault, it can be especially hard when one’s peers and relatives are the ones choosing not to believe them. I know this because I write from the point-of-view of a woman who has not been believed about being raped, and also as someone who chose not to believe another.