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Overland and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are thrilled to announce the entries that placed in the 2020 Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize! This year’s star judges, Mirandi Riwoe, Jeanine Leane and Wayne Marshall, rose to the challenging task of selecting a shortlist of eight pieces from over 500 entries, before narrowing the result down to three exceptional stories.

This year’s stellar judges, Bonny Cassidy, Bella Li, Anne-Marie Te Whiu and Toby Fitch (who is also Overland’s poetry editor), read over 900 entries before selecting a shortlist of just eight outstanding works – including poetry from emerging poets such as Sara Saleh, Harry Reid and Declan Fry. The judges then chose four unforgettable poems to place 1st, 2nd and 3rd in this year's prize. The competition was so fierce this year that the judges chose two poems to share 3rd place! 

We’d like to thank everyone who entered this year for their thoughtful and incredible work. We received an impressive and high quality range of poems, and each and every writer deserves congratulations. We'd also like to thank our judges, Evelyn Araluen and Gayle Allan (Trinity College), for their hard work and dedication to the decision-making process. 

6 pm Friday 6 December ETU Ballroom, Trades Hall, Melbourne Overland, the United Workers Union, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and the Migrant Workers Centre are hosting a lively end-of-year debate on the contention: ‘The time to strike is now!’

6.30 pm Saturday 8 December VU at MetroWest, 138 Nicholson Street, Footscray Overland editorial intern Magan Magan is launching his first collection, published by Vulgar Press, in Footscray on 8 December.

6 pm Friday 7 December The Toff in Town, 252 Swanston Street, Melbourne Overland and the National Union of Workers are hosting a lively end-of-year debate on the topic of automation and what it will mean for workers and labour.

How to Build Bridges Symposium 10 am – 6 pm Friday 23 November The Substation, 1 Market Street Newport The Bridge (the play) Wednesday 21–Saturday 24 November The Substation, 1 Market Street Newport

Online, 7pm Thursday 1 November Join Overland's resident tech-genius and poet Benjamin Laird, experimental storyteller Mez Breeze, and writer and VR enthusiast Mark Riboldi to boldly go where no writers have gone before: a panel examining the history and present of VR taking place in virtual space! This is a free event.

Check out the Overland events at the National Young Writers’ Festival! Taking place in Newcastle from 27-30 September, 2018.

Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 June, State Library Victoria, Conference Centre Join Overland at the National Writers’ Conference weekend, as part of the 2018 Emerging Writers’ Festival. There’s a panel on mentoring, featuring Laniyuk Garcon and Ellen van Neerven, a couple of industry sessions, such as ‘What editors want’ and ‘Pitch it!’, and Overland will have a trade table all Saturday, where you can stop by and talk with mag eds, peruse issues and maybe even try on some Overland tees.

Friday 25–Sunday 27 May, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre Three days of feminist politics, feminist perspectives and collective solutions. Catch the editor of Overland Jacinda Woodhead, with fiction editor Jennifer Mills and writer Natalie Kon-yu in conversation on mentorship in the arts – then stick around for special event presented by Overland on writing and activism with Santilla Chingaipe, Tarneen Onus-Williams and Asher Wolf.

Debate: ‘It’s time … for a universal basic income?’ 6pm, Monday 11 December Ballroom, Trades Hall 54 Victoria St, Carlton Free food, free drinks, free event!

We’ll make you think, we’ll challenge you, we’ll move you – and in our pages you’ll read things you disagree with. As one subscriber wrote to us just yesterday, ‘Every now and then I want to throw Overland across the room – which I consider a brilliant thing.’

By taking out, renewing or giving an Overland subscription today, you could win: – today’s ‘Parental leave’ prize – any of the three Major Prizes – and/or one of our Regional Prizes – a good feeling about yourself – and the future of progressive literary culture

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