This is it: one final appeal to you, dear reader, to put your spare $$ where your love is and take out or renew a subscription sometime in the next few hours. In return, you’ll go into the prize draw for all our jaw-dropping prizes!

1. Because you want a future where Overland exists. As we explained earlier this week, due to arts cuts, we have to make up an $80,000 shortfall each year in order to keep doing all the things we do. 2. Because you’re switched on! (Did we mention that this year’s prizes include a VR headset, 12-month videogame subscription and an interactive pet camera with two-way audio?)

I remember mistakes over the years – the errors that made it into print, despite the concerted effort (sorry Fredric Jameson et al) – disagreements about whether a work is finished (who even really knows when a work is finished!) … Mostly, I remember the thrill of collaborating with writers and editors and our volunteer readers on thousands of ideas and essays and arguments and editions and special issues.

It’s never been an easy choice to be a writer, and it’s never easy to get published. But we strive to make Overland a series of spaces where you can have a voice. And we know how important having time to write is. That’s why, this Subscriberthon, you have a chance to win not one, but two writing retreats.

We don’t want a future where literature is a thing that used to happen.

Overland has spent the last 65 years imagining, challenging and debating ideas and possible futures – and, honestly, we’re just as feisty, radical, relentless, egalitarian-believing and utopian-seeking as we were in our youth! If you support what we do and the literary spaces we make, subscribe.

Folks, welcome to our annual, week-long Subscriberthon! It's a lovely time of year: there are many magnificent prizes to be won! And an important magazine to support!