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249 Summer 2022

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Elias Greig on ecofascism and the settler invasion fantasy, Natalia Figueroa Barroso on Charrua language and colonisation, the winners of the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and Judith Wright Poetry Prize, new poetry and fiction from Angela Costi, Liam Ferney, Michael Farrell, Ouyang Yu, Tim Loveday and more.

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Linda Godfrey

Linda Godfrey: Poet. Writer. Editor. Program Manager of the Wollongong Writers Festival. 2015 to 2018. Curator of Rocket Readings, readings of poetry and an open mic, part of the Sydney Writers Festival and Wollongong Writers Festival, 2007 to 2018. Reader, manuscript assessor, teacher, judge. Fiction and poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies. Will fulfil her ambition to live on the beach at Agia Triada in Crete where the Minoans built a summer palace.

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Published in Overland Issue 240.5: a special digital fiction edition · Fiction

From the editorial collective

Melissa Manning, Katelin Farnsworth, Linda Godfrey, Zoë Meager, Melanie Saward, Donna Mazza, Belinda Rule, Sara Navissi, Andrew Doyle and Raaza Jamhshed

Who are we? We’re some of the volunteer readers at Overland – you might recognise our names from the editorial pages of the journal. Ordinarily, we have the pleasure of reading a selection of the works submitted to the journal each month before they move onto Claire’s desk for further consideration. We read and carefully consider each piece, but don’t make the final choice of what’s published, and we don’t ordinarily interact with the authors.

Published in Overland Issue 234.5: an autumn fiction edition with 16 editors! ·

From the editorial collective

Zoë Meager, Hannah Macauley-Gierhart, Chloe Wilson, Caitlin Lawless, Amanda Niehaus, Linda Godfrey, Katelin Farnsworth, SJ Finn, Bronwyn Xavier, Trish Bolton, Kerrie McCure, Anna Spargo-Ryan, Jarryd Luke, Karen Whitelaw, Eloise Oxer and Oliver Driscoll

We need new voices and unconventional narratives to guard against rigidity. Plots that are distinct and lucid and sometimes boiling hot.

Published in Overland Issue 230.5: Autumn fiction ·

Editorial

Linda Godfrey

Why did I relate to the stories I chose? The stories stand out because they have characters with complex lives. They are struggling with adversity, but are alive to life. The stories are written in scenes, not long descriptive passages or discursive dialogue. These are narratives that go to the heart of the matter and arrive there from the first sentence.