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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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Jem Tyley-Miller

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.

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Published in Overland Issue 235 Winter 2019 ·

The island

Jem Tyley-Miller

A vast encampment – brimming with faces – stretches back farther than my eyes can see. There are no palm trees, only aerials: an enormous tangle that plays host to a symphony of sea birds whose droppings add texture to the flapping Visqueen patchwork roofs below.