Jennifer Mills

Type: Author biography

Jennifer Mills was Overland fiction editor between 2012 and 2018. Her latest novel, The Airways, is out through Picador.

A Liveable Income Guarantee should support artists—and artists should support a UBI

Type: Article
Category: the arts

By Jennifer Mills
28.Mar.22
3 Comments

Precarious words

Type: Article
Category: Writing

By Jennifer Mills
22.Nov.21
3 Comments

Cracks in the glass: living through the second wave

Type: Article
Category: Coronavirus

By Jennifer Mills
15.Nov.20
0 Comments

The melancholic background

Type: Article
Category: Coronavirus; Grief

By Jennifer Mills
26.May.20
2 Comments

Agents of care

Type: Reflection
Category: Coronavirus; Solidarity

By Jennifer Mills
30.Mar.20
1 Comment

The other side of climate grief is climate fury

Type: Polemic
Category: Climate catastrophe; Federal Election 2019

Against realism

Type: Essay
Category: Politics; Writing

Judges’ notes | VU Short Story Prize

Type: Short Story Prize
Category: Writing

By Jennifer Mills, Tom Clark, Sarah Schmidt and Michelle Cahill
232 Spring 2018

Neilma Sidney Prize: Judges’ notes

Type: Short Story Prize

By Jennifer Mills, Ryan O'Neill and Nic Low
230 Autumn 2018

Swimming with aliens

Type: Essay
Category: Climate change; The ocean

What we talk about when we talk about editing

Type: Reflection
Category: Editing; Writing

Talking ‘Crabs’

Type: Fiction
Category: Interview; Writing

By Jennifer Mills and Peter Carey
228 Spring 2017

Nakata Brophy Prize: Judges’ notes

Type: Short Story Prize

By Jennifer Mills, Katherine Firth and Tara June Winch
227 Winter 2017

The beauty regimen of a woman writer

Type: Reflection
Category: Sexism; Writing

By Jennifer Mills
13.Apr.17
8 Comments

The 400ppm tipping point

Type: Polemic
Category: Activism; The environment

Victoria University Short Story Prize: judges’ report

Type: Short Story Prize
Category: Judges' report

By Jacinda Woodhead, Jennifer Mills and Alison Whan
224 Spring 2016

Erasing LGBTI history

Type: Polemic
Category: Activism; LGBTIQ

Cursive Letters: the social media menace

Type: Column
Category: Identity; Writing

By Jennifer Mills
15.Feb.16
5 Comments

All the bees are too busy writing submissions

Type: Article
Category: Culture; Writing

Cursive Letters: Imposter Syndrome

Type: Column
Category: Writing

Detroit, I do mind

Type: Essay
Category: Capitalism in decline; Essay

Cursive Letters: the prize winner’s guilt

Type: Column
Category: Writing

By Jennifer Mills
19.Aug.15
4 Comments

Cursive Letters: dead men tell no tales

Type: Column
Category: Writing

By Jennifer Mills
12.Jun.15
3 Comments

Cursive Letters: write drunk, edit sober

Type: Column
Category: Writing

Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers: Judges’ report

Type: Fiction
Category: Writing

By Jennifer Mills, Tony Birch and Sally Dalton-Brown
218 Autumn 2015

Fancy cuts: introduction

Type: Fiction

VU Short Story Prize: judges’ report

Type: Fiction
Category: Writing

Fancy cuts: an introduction

Type: Fiction
Category: Writing

Transitioning fiction

Type: Review
Category: Reading

By Jennifer Mills
29.May.14
0 Comments

Fancy cuts: an introduction

Type: Fiction
Category: Reading; Writing

Images of justice

Type: Review
Category: Reading

By Jennifer Mills
29.Apr.14
0 Comments

Fancy cuts: an introduction

Type: Fiction
Category: Writing

Double exposure

Type: Review
Category: Reading

By Jennifer Mills
19.Feb.14
0 Comments

2013 in lit mags

Type: Review
Category: Reading

By Jennifer Mills
19.Dec.13
0 Comments

2013 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers

Type: Reflection
Category: Writing

Barracuda and middle-class self-hatred

Type: Review
Category: Culture; Politics

By Jennifer Mills
21.Nov.13
4 Comments

The lost

Type: Reflection
Category: Culture; Politics

The rarest of birds

Type: Review
Category: Reading

By Jennifer Mills
19.Sep.13
5 Comments

The age of retail politics

Type: Article
Category: Politics

By Jennifer Mills
29.Aug.13
0 Comments

Paying the writers

Type: Debate
Category: Writing

By Jennifer Mills and Benjamin Laird
211 Winter 2013

National capital

Type: Review
Category: Reading

By Jennifer Mills
30.May.13
0 Comments

We Are Not The Same Anymore

Type: Review

By Jennifer Mills
18.Apr.13
1 Comment

Domestic fiction

Type: Review

By Jennifer Mills
13.Mar.13
0 Comments

Pay the writers

Type: Article
Category: Activism; Writing

Damaged in Transit

Type: Review

By Jennifer Mills
13.Feb.13
1 Comment

Lest we forget: Grindr remembers the Holocaust

Type: Article
Category: Activism; Culture; Politics

Best of 2012: Gentle revolutionaries

Type: Review
Category: Reading

By Jennifer Mills
20.Dec.12
4 Comments

Judges’ report

Type: Short Story Prize
Category: Reading

‘A little romance’: The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer

Type: Review
Category: Reading

By Jennifer Mills
17.Oct.12
0 Comments

Fiction: The Memory of Salt

Type: Review
Category: Reading

By Jennifer Mills
20.Sep.12
0 Comments

Architecture

Type: Fiction

Fiction: On The Remnants (or How novels are not essays)

Type: Review
Category: Reading

Fiction: The Forrests

Type: Review
Category: Reading

By Jennifer Mills
21.Jun.12
0 Comments

Fiction: The Spider King’s Daughter

Type: Review
Category: Reading

By Jennifer Mills
21.May.12
0 Comments

Fiction: Blue

Type: Review
Category: Reading

By Jennifer Mills
12.Apr.12
3 Comments

A literature that refuses to go missing

Type: Review

By Jennifer Mills
15.Feb.12
4 Comments

Subscriberthon: Occupy the story

Type: Article

How to write about Aboriginal Australia

Type: Essay
Category: Politics; Reading

These are Fighting Words

Type: Article
Category: Writing

By Jennifer Mills
25.Nov.10
1 Comment

Thanks, newmatilda

Type: Article

By Jennifer Mills
27.May.10
1 Comment

How about radical success?

Type: Article

By Jennifer Mills
26.Feb.10
3 Comments

I'm not buying it

Type: Article

zines zines zines

Type: Article

By Jennifer Mills
29.Dec.09
2 Comments

goolwa or bust

Type: Article

By Jennifer Mills
14.Dec.09
1 Comment

Steve Fielding is confused

Type: Article

By Jennifer Mills
27.Nov.09
5 Comments

Archive closures - letter to Senator Ludwig

Type: Article

By Jennifer Mills
19.Nov.09
1 Comment

critical gratitude

Type: Article

By Jennifer Mills
28.Oct.09
0 Comments

postcard party

Type: Article

double-duh

Type: Article

i'm sorry to interrupt...

Type: Article

By Jennifer Mills
11.Sep.09
8 Comments

knit poem

Type: Article

By Jennifer Mills
20.Aug.09
1 Comment

A quick word on the Alice Springs town camps

Type: Article

By Jennifer Mills
31.Jul.09
0 Comments

pullback

Type: Article

US border control

Type: Article

By Jennifer Mills
28.Apr.09
0 Comments

small press alive in the centre

Type: Article

Whaledreamers

Type: Article

By Jennifer Mills
23.Feb.09
2 Comments