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.
Jem Tyley-Miller is a writer from regional Victoria whose stories have been shortlisted for many awards including this year’s Margaret River Short Story Prize. A 2018 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, you can also read her work in Meanjin. She works in film and TV to fund her writing and co-organises the Peter Carey Short Story Award in her spare time.
