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.
Josephine Scicluna is a poet, fiction and essay writer inventing and exploring diverse hybrid forms. But, really, she’s writing about music and mobile phones, love and crumbling houses. She collaborates with musicians, playwrights and artists to create performance works and recordings for radio broadcast, which have been featured on RRR and ABC Radio National. She’s won several awards for her short fiction, and her poetry, fiction and essays have been published in various journals including In/Stead, Verandah and The Age.
