Published in Overland Issue Audio Overland · Writing What will be left of us? Omar Musa Omar Musa Omar Musa is an award-winning author, poet and rapper. He won the Australian Poetry Slam in 2008 and the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam in 2009. His debut novel, Here Come the Dogs, was published in 2014, and was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. Musa was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year 2015. More by Omar Musa › 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 10 March 202610 March 2026 · Writing The role of the committed writer in an unfree world André Dao No, the committed writer is a movement writer. I mean that the committed writer knows that they know very little, and that the way to remedy that ignorance is through solidarity with people in struggle. 1 1 December 20251 December 2025 · Writing With respect to the poor essay Jonno Revanche Style is now a feature that we surrender to a digital pattern recognition machine, which attempts to replicate our own but often falls short, feeling convincing enough but too superficial in its noticing to get to the heart of human concerns.
