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.
Troy Innocent is an urban play scholar and artist gamemaker, and VC Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University. Through his creative practice research he has played on the streets of Melbourne, Bristol, Barcelona, Istanbul, Ogaki, Sydney and Hong Kong. Innocent is the creator of 64 Ways of Being, a free-to-play app making cities playable through augmented reality.
