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.
Olivia Bennett is a Melbourne/Naarm-based writer, filmmaker, curator and MIFF 2019 Critics Campus participant. Her practice specialises in the socio-political effects, and intersections between, art and film philosophy, post-humanism, technology and digital media. Olivia completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours - First Class) in Screen and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Art History and Curating (majoring in Film Studies) at Monash University.
