Published in Overland Issue 216 Spring 2014 · Uncategorized Issue 216 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Giovanni Tiso Stephen Wright Contributors FEATURES Laurie Penny Why I write Words against power JOHN MARNELL Imagined worlds Queer writing in Africa Various The future of magazines A survey of literary editors Rjurik Davidson On writer’s block What the blank page says about writing Hugo Race The crystal blitz, 1981 A memoir from post-punk Melbourne Barnaby Lewer Alternative spaces Utopian thought and the logic of capital Andrew Nette Disappeared in Laos What happened to Sombath Somphone? Dougal McNeill Migration, my nation! Poetry, world literature and resistance Shannon Woodcock Hope dies last Romani resistance to the Holocaust Jim Davidson Stephen’s vector The evolution of Overland’s founder FICTION Jennifer Mills – Fancy cuts: an introduction Christos Tsiolkas Petals Sarah Klenbort Into the woods Jacinda Woodhead Jellyfish POETRY Fiona Hile A portable crush Pam Brown Fading Collected melancholy Kate Fagan Thinking with things Ann Vickery Autumnal hook Keri Glastonbury Goodbye to all that Jill Jones Wind shadow Editorial team More by Editorial team › 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 21 February 202521 February 2025 · The university Closing the noose: a dispatch from the front line of decasualisation Matthew Taft Across the board, universities have responded to legislation aimed at rectifying this already grim situation by halting casual hiring, cutting courses, expanding class sizes, and increasing the workloads of permanent staff. This is an unintended consequence of the legislation, yes, but given the nefarious history of the university, from systemic wage theft to bad-faith bargaining, hardly a surprising one. 19 February 2025 · Disability The devaluing of disability support Áine Kelly-Costello and Jonathan Craig Over the past couple of decades, disabled people in much of the Western world have often sought, or agreed to, more individualised funding schemes in order to gain greater “choice and control” over the support we receive. But the autonomy, dignity and flexibility we were promised seems constantly under threat or out of reach, largely because of the perception that allowing us such “luxuries” is too expensive.
