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.
Kieron Byatt is a Melbourne based writer and hip-hop artist. His 2015 EP ‘Invalid’ received radio-play on 3RRR and Triple J and his written work has appeared in Voiceworks, Verandah and Going Down Swinging. He currently teaches creative writing and runs the hip-hop department Victorian youth music organisation The Push.
