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.
Roz Bellamy is a freelance writer passionate about creativity, human rights and mental health. Their work has been published in the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, SBS and Meanjin. They are the online editor at Archer Magazine and a PhD candidate at La Trobe University. They are working on a memoir about gender diversity, Jewish identity and mental illness.
