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255 Winter 2024

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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.

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Jake Dean

Jake Dean writes stories and rides waves on Kaurna Country in South Australia. His fiction has been recognised in journals, anthologies and contests in Australia and internationally. His work has recently appeared in Griffith Review and won the AAWP Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Emerging Writers' Prize. Read more of his writing at jake-dean.com

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21 March 2025 · Friday Fiction

Wearables

Jake Dean

Heidi drops slowly to her knees in a move she hopes looks seductive but, judging by the click in her netball-ravaged patellas, probably looks anything but. She grabs him, Joe’s whole body tensing for an instant, and puts him in her mouth. His eyes roll back.

28 February 20193 May 2019 · Main Posts

Australians hate the beach – and what we can do about it

Jake Dean

But they’re symptomatic of our contempt for the coast. We ‘love’ the beach because of whatever enjoyment we can squeeze out of it (free swims, warmth, Instagram fodder) and godspeed to anything – endangered species, for example – that stands in the way.