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255 Winter 2024

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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.

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Sahib Nazari

Sahib Nazari was born in Afghanistan. He lived in Pakistan before his family migrated to Australia in 2005. Sahib has a graduate degree in creative writing and literature from Griffith University. His stories have appeared in The Best Asian Short Stories 2022, Bengaluru Review, Meridian, Mascara Literary Review, TEXT Journal and Joao Roque Literary Journal.

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Published in Overland Issue 254 Autumn 2024 · Poetry

Lovebirds

Sahib Nazari

One hot and dusty summer day, while strolling to a kite shop, Ali requested me to write a letter for him, addressed to Nelofer — the narrow-nosed shy girl with dusky eyes, whose family had recently moved a few doors down from Ali’s, in the fatigued neighbourhood of Mariabad by the foot of the mountain, in Quetta city.