For our final plea we have an update from one of our resident dogs, Elsie: It’s been a long year for everyone and I, Elsie the official online magazine dog, am no exception. How long was it? I went from looking like this: To looking like this: It’s been a long year, yet we carry […]

Since 1954, Overland has been at the avant-garde of poetry publishing in Australia, featuring aesthetically and politically challenging work by a diverse range of poets, while unearthing new poets. In more recent years, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets and the Nakata Brophy Prize have furthered Overland’s commitment to fostering […]

By subscribing to Overland, you’re also supporting our daily online magazine. This has a different rhythm to its print sibling: it has more immediacy, and usually makes room for shorter pieces, but it aspires to the same critical and political outlook. It also allows us to create more opportunities for emerging writers to get published, […]

Ludwig Wittgenstein said ‘if a cat could speak, we could not understand her.’ Well, words to that effect. A way of saying that without experiencing a world of sensual life, what could words mean? My human says no, the quote is if a lion could speak, we could not understand him. But honestly what’s the […]

Hello friends,  Sit back and relax. The weekend edition of Subscriberthon’s got you sorted. For your reading pleasure we have Dženana Vucic’s aching memoir ‘A teology of folding, and of dying‘, Mykaela Saunders’ Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize 2020 winning piece ‘Choice cuts‘ and our favourite cartoonist Sam Wallman’s take on swimming in the Yarra. We’ve also created our very […]

Welcome to the 2021 Overland Subscriberthon – the week where we share great literature and give away prizes every day!

Thank you 2021 sponsors! You’ve made a huge impact on the future of literature in Australia.

Overland is unique in Australian writing in its equal dedication towards formal excellence and incisive argument, and towards foregrounding and amplifying politically marginalised and therefore politically necessary voices. We remain honoured and inspired by the opportunity of this experience, and we hope you come with us on its next and brighter chapter.