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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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Madeleine Rebbechi

Madeleine Rebbechi is a writer based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is the 2024 recipient of the ASA/Varuna Ray Koppe Fellowship for Young Writers and was most recently published in the Kill Your Darlings anthology New Australian Fiction 2023. She is currently working on a short story collection.

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22 November 202422 November 2024 · Fiction

A map of underneath

Madeleine Rebbechi

They had been tangled together like kelp from the age of fourteen: sunburned, electric Meg and her sidekick Ruth the dreamer, up to all manner of sinister things. So said their parents; so their teachers reported when the two girls were found down at the estuary during a school excursion, whispering to something scaly wriggling in the reeds.