Published in Overland Issue Audio Overland II: Resistance · Uncategorized Audio Overland II: Resistance Maxine Beneba Clarke Contents Maxine Clarke Editorial Poetry Ngwatilo Mawiyoo Flag and Future Tiggy Johnson Drowning in Three Children Belinda Lopez Guitar Koraly Dimitriadis My Wedding Dress Klare Lanson The Seduction of the Cloud Mistress Jenny Squire The Road There Candy Royalle Our Hearts Nathan Curnow The MCG Will Imprison Us Pascalle Burton The Cleveland Line Holly Childs Occupy Who Magazine Maxine Beneba Clarke Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian author and slam poet of Afro- Caribbean descent. Her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the 2015 ABIA Award for Best Literary Fiction and the 2015 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her memoir, The Hate Race, her poetry collection Carrying the World, and her first children’s book, The Patchwork Bike, will be published by Hachette in late 2016. More by Maxine Beneba Clarke › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 1 6 November 2026 · Friday Fiction Headland Harry Goddard He must have still been sore. I could tell from the winces he made as he scooted down the trail. Some unspoken agreement of not hitting other people’s children — and the circumstances of me not being that type of kid — spared me from the same punishment. I was taken to my parents who agreed I would have to work off the damages, and I must have mowed the lawn once, or cleaned the family car. 4 November 2026 · Film MIFF, Minotaur and the politics of maternal reception Alicia Byrnes Maternal labour is, in the terms I’ve set out here, not labour at all. Noisy, unfocused, mobile, perhaps even sleepy — it is an affront to arthouse film viewing and therefore unserious.
