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.
Phoebe Lupton is a Eurasian-Australian writer, living on Ngunnawal/Ngambri country. She is interested in speculation and documentary poetics as means to imagine a more just world. You can read more of Phoebe's writing in Kill Your Darlings, Baby Teeth Journal, Voiceworks, Cordite and others. They are an alumnus of Toolkits: Nonfiction with Express Media.
