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.
Patton Quinn is a writer, a teacher and a single mother. She currently works in the political sector as a bill editor. She earned her graduate degree in humanities from St Edward’s University. You can find her work in such places as McSweeney’s Internet Tendencies, Wanderlust Journal, Matchbook Series, Elephant Journal, Awakenings Review, Rebellesociety.com, and Rag Queen Periodical. She lives in her hometown, Austin, Texas, with her daughter, Edith Anne, and their scruffy old buddy, Andy, a terrier from the mean streets of Dallas. When not doing life chores, they spend time hiking, painting, baking, or playing make believe in some capacity.
