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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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Samuel J Cox

Dr Samuel J Cox is a sessional lecturer and teacher at the University of Adelaide. He completed his PhD in Australian literature in 2023. He won ASAL’s AD Hope Prize in 2022 and the ALS PhD Essay Prize, jointly with Evelyn Araluen, in 2023. He is also a photographer and can be found @australianmana and samueljessecox

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Published in Overland Issue 255 Winter 2024 · Writing

Writing from the South: an interview with Kim Scott

Samuel J Cox

At the end of October 2023, Kim Scott travelled to Adelaide to speak at the Stories from the South Book Club, a public event held at Dymocks, Rundle Mall that focused on his most recent novel, Taboo (2017). As a long-time admirer of Scott’s work and a passionate scholar of Australian literature, I sat down with Kim in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens the day before, where we conducted this interview.