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Issue 260 Jul/Aug 2026

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Overland’s 260th issue is our most substantial yet. At 212 pages, it contains writing from the winners and runners-up of the 2025 Judith Wright poetry and Neilma Sidney short story prizes, as well as last year’s Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers.

Across eight short stories, nine poems and five essays, this issue showcases the breadth of talent across generations: Hana Pera Aoake mounts a critique of the economies of First Nations artmaking, asking who exactly benefits when Maōri artists excel within an unregulated market predicated on individualism, while John Kinsella makes an extensive case for unoriginality as both poetic method and political resistance.

Elsewhere, Tom Gurn, winner of the 2025 Neilma Sidney prize, imagines a surreal, fractured dialogue between two speakers orbiting loss and urban adaptation. Susie Anderson’s Nakata Brophy winning story follows a Blak elder navigating council rooms as she carries the stories of those who cared for her Country’s waterways.

The issue also features new poetry by Ouyang Yu, Dorothy Lune and Dave Drayton, as well as an excerpt from Surveying the Wild Abyss, a new book by Hawkesbury elder and educator Barry Corr.

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Overland literary journal > Print Issue 196 Spring 2009


Print Issue 196 Spring 2009

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‘Why are you still alive?’
Carmela Baranowska
feature | Thomas Shepherd
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editorial | Jeff Sparrow
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Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 196 Spring 2009 · Reading

‘Why are you still alive?’

Carmela Baranowska
Five years later people no longer stop me in the street and ask: ‘What happened? Did the Taliban kidnap you? Why are you still alive?’ During two strange and chaotic […]
Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 196 Spring 2009 · Main Posts

feature | Thomas Shepherd

Editorial team
OVERLAND 196 spring 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-3-4 published 22 August 2009 A life in mirrors Jeff Sparrow and Rjurik Davidson meet Thomas Shepherd, a former ASIO informer Thomas Shepherd does not […]
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Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 196 Spring 2009 · Main Posts

editorial | Jeff Sparrow

Jeff Sparrow
OVERLAND 196 spring 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-3-4 published 22 August 2009 With the support of the City of Melbourne’s ‘Writing About Melbourne’ program, Overland approached four authors whose work we admired […]

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