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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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Joshua Lee Shimmen

Joshua Lee Shimmen is a writer, teacher and general ratbag.

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4 February 202211 March 2022 · Friday Features

Fiction | Chipper

Joshua Lee Shimmen

You’re three months sober if you don’t count Sundays and you don’t count Sundays. On Sundays, you drink cider with Lauren’s grandparents and help with the jobs they’re too old to do. Lauren is not your partner anymore but she’s not not your partner either. You’re working things out.