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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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Jumaana Abdu

Jumaana Abdu is an Australian-born Egyptian-Palestinian in her fourth year of medicine at UNSW. A young fiction writer and poet, she was the recipient of the 2018 UNSW Literary Journal Poetry Prize and the 2013 Whitlam Institute’s What Matters? overall prize. She has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, Vector Journal, and the UNSWeetened Literary Journal.

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14 August 202014 September 2020 · Fiction

Fiction | Late night shopping

Jumaana Abdu

This time I really did want to be offended. I wanted to be as bold in my rage as Sophia, as reactionary in my justified rebuke. But all I felt was a cold sweat and a sense that everyone else in that plaza was only sorry they hadn’t done it to me themselves. I knew that wasn’t true, but every time something like that happened, it felt like gospel that someone – anyone, everyone – wanted to hurt me.