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.
Raaza Jamshed is a writer drawn to the poetics of gender, language, and identity. She is a doctoral candidate at the Writing and Society Research Center at Western Sydney University. Her short story won the second prize for the 2019 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. Her recent short stories have appeared in Meanjin and Australian Book Review.
