Published in Overland Issue 211.5: Winter fiction · Uncategorized Issue 211.5: winter fiction Emily Laidlaw Contents Emily Laidlaw − Editorial Fiction Kristin Hannaford The direction of sunlight Melissa Howard Other people’s daughters Kelli Lonergan If friends were lovers too Samuel Rutter The sort of things he might say about me Emily Laidlaw Emily Laidlaw is an editor and writer based in Melbourne. Her articles and reviews appear regularly in The Big Issue and Readings Monthly and on Killings. She is a former member of Voiceworks’ editorial committee and currently works as marketing coordinator at Kill Your Darlings. More by Emily Laidlaw › 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 2 29 May 202629 May 2026 · Politics Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Nick Riemer While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of antisemitism in Australia at the present moment, it is perverse that the Commission has refused to hear from the Palestine solidarity movement. 27 May 2026 · Reviews Losing our sense of struggle: Fiona Wright’s Kill Your Boomers May Ngo The precarity described in Kill Your Boomers feels mitigated — more existential than material. It’s the precarity of being lost in your life, rather than the threat of having to sleep out on the streets.
