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.
Margot Beavon-Collin is a Political Economy and History student at the University of Sydney, where she has been a Disability Office Bearer since 2019. She is a current member of the WWDA Youth Advisory Group and PWDA’s Pandemic Project, as well as a candidate member of the Australian Communist Party. She has also been involved with the Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers’ Alliance and the Disability Justice Network. She has spoken at the Emerging Writers’ Festival and the National Young Writers’ Festival, and her work has been published in Militant Monthly and Honi Soit.
