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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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Melanie Myers

Melanie is a writer and the Artistic Director of Reality Bites – a nonfiction writers' festival based on the Sunshine Coast. She is currently undertaking a DCA at the University of the Sunshine Coast where she also teaches creative writing and drama.

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8 August 201414 August 2014 · Writing

Writers’ festivals, writers’ fees

Melanie Myers

As the artistic director of Reality Bites Festival – a ‘boutique’ nonfiction writers’ festival based in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland – I’ve viewed ASA rates for writers with both disdain, and, more recently, as a benchmark to be referenced with professional pride.