The Journal

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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Zahid Gamieldien

Zahid Gamieldien is a writer, tutor and former lawyer. In the last 12 months, his fiction has been accepted for publication in Tincture, Mascara Literary Review, Bahamut, Pantheon Magazine and the print version of Overland.

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Published in Overland Issue 222.5 Autumn fiction ·

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Zahid Gamieldien

I don’t expect you to believe me, but my name is Juno Barrios and this is a work of nonfiction.

Published in Overland Issue 220 Spring 2015 ·

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Zahid Gamieldien

This happened when I was a young man, just shy of my twenty-first birthday. All my life, I’d lived in a New South Wales country town; I won’t say which one, only that it was within four hours of Sydney and has since been abandoned. The town was a combination of abattoirs and grain and white collars. If you listened hard enough, you could hear the cries of a million cows in the throes of death.