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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Tiia Kelly

Tiia Kelly is a writer and critic from Naarm. You can find her work in Kill Your Darlings, Voiceworks, Scum Mag, The Big Issue, Screen Queens and elsewhere. In 2021, she participated in the Melbourne International Film Festival Critics Campus. She tweets @tiiakel.

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6 October 202113 November 2021 · Surveillance

Surviving the world unseen

Tiia Kelly

What unites The Conversation and Leave No Trace is the shared desire of their protagonists to evade particular forms of capture. This desire to live off-the-grid is, inherently, a rejection of the terms of the world as-is, and the limited possibilities of life lived on those terms. It’s a practice of resistance, skirting systems of power by refusing to be made legible within them.