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.
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.
