This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.
Eva Bujalka teaches creative writing and cultural studies at Curtin University, where she completed a PhD in creative writing. She is a co-director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network and teaches at the School of Critical Arts. Eva has published fiction and essays in Meanjin and Cambridge: Popular Music, and has work forthcoming in Fast Capitalism. Most recently she has appeared on the ABC’s The Philosopher’s Zone.
