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.
Leah Muddle is an artist, poet and would-be retail worker. Her writing can be found in journals such as Cordite, Plumwood Mountain and The Slow Canoe. She is also the publisher of Shower Books chapbooks including, It’s what we’re already doing, in collaboration with Elena Gomez, Ella O’Keefe, Melody Paloma, Sian Vate and Emily Stewart.
