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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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Emma Ashmere

Emma Ashmere's new short story collection Dreams They Forgot is published by Wakefield Press. Her writing has appeared in Overland, The Age, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and the Commonwealth Writers magazine 'adda'. Her novel The Floating Garden was shortlisted for the Small Press Network MUBA 2016. She lives on Bundjalung country in northern NSW.

Articles by Emma Ashmere:

2 February 20213 March 2021 · Writing

Written in water

Emma Ashmere

On 19 January 1976 a tidal wave was set to wipe out my home city of Adelaide. If that wasn’t enough, an earthquake would follow it. The wave was in all the newspapers, on TV and radio. People began panic-selling their houses along the coast – or so it was said.

Published in Overland Issue 237 Summer 2019 ·

Standing up lying down

Emma Ashmere

Laurie was on the way to the No HoWARd march when she noticed something was wrong with her leg. She went on the march anyway. Her first in Melbourne. And her last.