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 15 April 202615 April 2026 · Climate politics The $67 billion climate betrayal: how Australia’s record fossil fuel subsidies fund global destruction Noa Wynn The contradictions aren't failures of implementation. They're the predictable result of a political system that has decided fossil fuel profits matter more than climate stability, more than the Great Barrier Reef, more than Pacific Islander lives, and more than the future habitability of the planet. 13 April 2026 · Disability The proletarianisation of disability support work: workers’ perspectives on the NDIS Nick Crowley Support workers, rather than creating objects, create a caring relationship. The scrupulous observance of organisational policies and ‘best practice’ codes is not sufficient to create such a relationship. This can only be created when workers take the time to understand their clients and build trusting, authentic, equal relationships with them.
