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.
Julie Janson is an Australian writer based in Sydney. Julie is of Aboriginal descent from the Burruberongal clan of the Darug Nation of the Hawkesbury River, NSW. She was raised in a Boronia Park Housing Commission home on the Lane Cove River in Sydney. She is an established playwright with ten plays produced professionally in Australia, Indonesia and USA. Her debut novel, The Crocodile Hotel, was published by Cyclops Press 2015.
