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255 Winter 2024

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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.

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Louise Swinn

Louise Swinn is a writer, editor, publisher and reviewer. Her work appears regularly in the Age, the Australian, and the Sydney Morning Herald. Louise was one of the founders of Sleepers Publishing, the Small Press Network, and the Stella Prize.

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Published in Overland Issue 227 Winter 2017 ·

Collarbone

Louise Swinn

We’ll be living on top of each other in an outer suburb. It’ll be an evening backyard barbecue

13 November 201213 November 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2012: Louise Swinn on discoveries made possible by little journals

Louise Swinn

We all – all of us in independent publishing – talk about why it's good to support small presses and sometimes we forget the specifics of why, or it feels like - when there's Harry Potter on the shelves, or you just feel like a bit of Fifty Shades of Whathaveyou – that it's like eating your greens, supporting small press. But the main reason I'm in this bag is that small press is the place where a lot of my favourite, those-I-love-to read writers had their start.