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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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Jayda Franks

Jayda Franks is a queer and autistic emerging writer studying on Gubbi Gubbi country. They features in the Wheeler Centre's Care Packages presentation, and their prose is published in Overcommunicate Magazine and student anthology It begins with us.

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Published in Overland Issue 248 Spring 2022 · Fiction

Fiction | In the garden

Jayda Franks

On a sweltering summer day, a young man signs in at the front office and is guided through the building by a pleasant woman with purple hair. Brick peeks out of peeling paint like a snake shedding its skin and endlessly wide windows sit deep in the walls, hedges of flowering murrayas obscuring the view. […]