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.
Sonia Orchard is a freelance writer, creative writing teacher and the author of two books: the memoir Something More Wonderful and the novel The Virtuoso, which received the Independent Booksellers Award for Best Debut Fiction. Sonia has a PhD in Creative Writing from RMIT, where she also taught novel writing in the Professional Writing and Editing Diploma.
