To my friends and comrades, I’m not sure if there’s language to communicate how this last month has utterly changed me. This time a few weeks ago the busyness and chaos of bricolage arts and academic labour had so efficiently distracted me from my anxiety about the upcoming referendum that I forgot to prepare myself for its inevitable conclusion.

We’re halfway through Subscriberthon week, so we’re breaking it up with some trivia (no prizes for knowing the answers; you’ll have to subscribe for that!). Shout-out to those who have already subscribed—thanks for bearing with us until Friday! What is the Overland–Meanjin trophy made of? A carved emu egg A meat tray A commemorative statue […]

If you subscribe to Overland you will be able to read, alongside all the great fiction and non-fiction we publish, a whole range of poetry—10 pages per print issue of the latest work from some of the best poets, emerging and established, across Australia. This year saw outstanding new poems by Panda Wong, Heather Taylor Johnson, Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne, Jini Maxwell and Mitchell Welch, among many others, as well as the unmissable winner and runners up of the 2022 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Yeena Kirkbright and Chris Brown.

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Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks poetry by writers who have published no more than one collection of poems under their own name (that is writers who’ve had zero collections published, or one solo collection published). It remains one of the richest prizes for emerging poets, and is open to poets anywhere in the world. In 2023, the major prize is $6000, with a second prize of $2000 and a third prize of $1000. All three winners will be published in Overland.

Supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, and named after the late Neilma Gantner, this prize seeks excellent short fiction of up to 3000 words themed around the notion of ‘travel’; imaginative, creative and literary interpretations are strongly encouraged. This competition is open to all writers, nationally and internationally, at any stage of their writing career.

Established in 2007, Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets is supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. Entrants must have no more than one collection of poems published under their own name. This year, the major prize is $6000, and second and third prize is $2000 and $1000 respectively. All three poets […]

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Think of how different our literary world would look if we read everything blind. You would never have to read a story, as many critics, academics, reviewers and judges do, and note that because it is written by a white heterosexual male, it must possess merit. A phenomenon Hustvedt refers to as the ‘masculine enhancement effect’. Readers may not, as many do, pick up a book by a person of colour, and look for the traumatic, moral story at its heart.