249 Summer 2022 Buy this issue Elias Greig on ecofascism and the settler invasion fantasy, Natalia Figueroa Barroso on Charrua language and colonisation, the winners of the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and Judith Wright Poetry Prize, new poetry and fiction from Angela Costi, Liam Ferney, Michael Farrell, Ouyang Yu, Tim Loveday and more. Issue Contents Features Feature | A guide to the colonisation of my mother tongues Natalia Figueroa Barroso Feature | Dovetails EJ Clarence Feature | A fried egg in space Bonnie Etherington Feature | Tasmania first: ecofascism and the settler invasion fantasy Elias Greig Fiction Aftermath Tim Loveday Black spring Online soon Hossein Asgari Editorial Editorial Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk Poetry Prize Judith Wright poetry prize 2022, VIRIDITAS / little big scrub poem Online soon Abbra Kotlarczyk Browse the issue: Features First published in Overland Issue 228 Published in Overland Issue 249 Summer 2022 · Language Feature | A guide to the colonisation of my mother tongues Natalia Figueroa Barroso In 1492, Spain believed itself to have discovered the New World, as they referred to Abya Yala. Even in European terms this was not a discovery, the Norse explorer Leif Erikson having travelled through North America in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Archaeologists, historians and academics still dispute when Abya Yala was first inhabited. First published in Overland Issue 228 Published in Overland Issue 249 Summer 2022 · Essay Feature | Dovetails EJ Clarence My mother and father missed it all. Bunnykins to bomber jackets, dummies to cigarettes. I was raised somewhere else. Given another mum. A different dad. Handed around until I stuck like a stickle brick to my brand-new brother, who was also riding the magic carousel of secret adoption circa 1970. Our shared reality was a […] First published in Overland Issue 228 Published in Overland Issue 249 Summer 2022 · Health Feature | A fried egg in space Bonnie Etherington In January 2021, one day after thousands of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, I underwent a craniotomy far from home in Loveland, Colorado to remove a low-grade tumour from the front left of my brain. In 2016 the World Health Organization stopped calling such tumours ‘benign’ as, when it comes to the brain, anything where it should not be cannot be classed as benign. First published in Overland Issue 228 Published in Overland Issue 249 Summer 2022 · Reviews Feature | Tasmania first: ecofascism and the settler invasion fantasy Elias Greig Blurbed as ‘The stunning, explosive new novel from the bestselling author of The Museum of Modern Love, winner of the 2017 Stella Prize’, Bruny is, according to the Allen & Unwin PR department, a ‘searing, subversive novel about family, love, loyalty and the new world order’, ‘a cry from the heart and a fiercely entertaining and crucial work of imagination’, one that dares to ask ‘burning’ questions like ‘How far would they go? How far would you?’ and ‘What would you do to protect the place you love?' Fiction First published in Overland Issue 228 Published in Overland Issue 249 Summer 2022 · Fiction Aftermath Tim Loveday Ray puts his mouth up to the gap between the window and the car door-frame. Still, everything smells of burning. Smoky air grazes his throat, punches his lungs. His head spins and he slumps back into the driver’s seat. No matter what he does, he can’t stop his hands from shaking. I could go out, he thinks, find her. First published in Overland Issue 228 Published in Overland Issue 249 Summer 2022 · Teaser Black spring Hossein Asgari Online soon. In the meantime, subscribe to Overland. Editorial First published in Overland Issue 228 Published in Overland Issue 249 Summer 2022 · Editorial Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk ‘Overlanding’, as in droving cattle across country at distance, waxed as a literary trope precisely as it waned as a means of labour. Like its dialectical opposite the Squatter, the Overlander is etymologically multiple, meaning both the drover who is employed and respectable, and the sundowner, who is itinerant and suspect. Poetry Prize First published in Overland Issue 228 Published in Overland Issue 249 Summer 2022 · Teaser Judith Wright poetry prize 2022, VIRIDITAS / little big scrub poem Abbra Kotlarczyk Online soon. In the meantime, subscribe to Overland. Previous Issue 248 Spring 2022 Next Issue 1 Spring 1954