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 7 4 May 2026 · Journalism Journalism in decline: a response to Michael Gawenda Jeff Sparrow As the author of a jeremiad about media ethics, Gawenda must, at some stage, have stumbled across point twelve in the MEAA code. It reads: “do your utmost to achieve fair correction of errors”. I await his retraction and apology. 1 May 20261 May 2026 · Long read Dungeons & Dragons is a waste of time: an unproductive case for radical action Scott Hudson Another such casualty is the push of AI into the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Used in this way, AI purports to hack your recreational time, allowing you to maximise it by smoothing over the nitty gritty. But the thing is, the joy of D&D is the nitty gritty. AI promises to improve the productivity of work and leisure, but much of D&D thrives on being unproductive.
