Overland

Overland is Australia’s sole radical literary magazine, established in 1954, that has been highlighting innovative and forward-thinking fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. It has featured some of the country’s most notable literary figures while also providing a platform for marginalized voices and emerging writers every day. As of 2018, Overland operates as a quarterly print journal that includes essays, stories, and poetry. Additionally, it runs an online magazine that offers cultural commentary on weekdays and features special online editions of fiction and poetry from time to time. The magazine is also active in organizing events, discussions, and debates, while hosting significant literary competitions and offering a residency program for underrepresented writers.

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Somebody please just do it

3 weeks ago | overland.org.au | Sam Wallman

256 Spring 2024 Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch.
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1 month ago | overland.org.au | Patrick Marlborough

To discuss season two of Disney’s Andor without discussing the genocide in Gaza would be both morally and intellectually disingenuous, and cowardly in a way that stains. Tony Gilroy knows this, despite his press-tour pussyfooting. Disney more than knows this, and I’m sure they’ve been rehearsing their response to the incoming discourse for months, if not since Gilroy first handed in the scripts.
A farewell and a poem from poetry editor Toby Fitch, 2015–2025 - Overland literary journal

2 months ago | overland.org.au | Toby Fitch |Gary Catalano |Louisa Mignone |Juliette McIntyre

Speech given on Friday 13 December 2024 at Testing Grounds, MelbourneIt’s rare that I speak at Overland events, because I prefer to do my work as poetry editor in the shadows. Not like one of the faceless men of the Labor party, no — the work of selecting poetry isn’t particularly clandestine or manipulative. Nor does it need fanfare — it’s simple work, of carving down a cornucopia of submissions into a small set menu for each issue.
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2 months ago | overland.org.au | Jenny Sinclair

Heidi drops slowly to her knees in a move she hopes looks seductive but, judging by the click in her netball-ravaged patellas, probably looks anything but. She grabs him, Joe’s whole body tensing for an instant, and puts him in her mouth. His eyes roll back. This is nice, she thinks or – more accurately – wills herself to believe. It has been a while.
Searching the sites of memory: on Azza El Hassan’s The Afterlife of Palestinian Images - Overland literary journal

2 months ago | overland.org.au | Norman Saadi Nikro |Ben Brooker |Karen Wyld

In her The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and the Archive of Disappearance, the Palestinian filmmaker, writer, and artist Azza El Hassan provides compelling terms of reference by which to engage the fate of Palestinian artefacts as “remains,” or “remnants of plunder.”Concentrating mainly on film and photography, El Hassan focuses primarily on the “afterlife” of artefacts subject to Israeli violence and theft.
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2 months ago | overland.org.au | Ben Brooker |Karen Wyld |Scott Robinson

The term “green growth” was coined twenty years ago by Rae Kwon Chung, a director at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). The concept captured the emerging idea that, rather than being antithetical to economic growth and technological progress, these paradigms could be given a sustainable makeover through government investment in renewable energy, green agriculture, sustainable forestry, and the like.
RIP woke, methed-up Ned Kelly

Mar 2, 2025 | overland.org.au | Sam Wallman |Sofia Sabbagh |Reuben Winmar

255 Winter 2024 This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’.
Pattern recognition: censorship, control and interference in Australia’s art funding

Feb 24, 2025 | overland.org.au | David Pledger |Micaela Sahhar |Kate Larsen

Later today, Creative Australia’s CEO, Adrian Collette, will appear before a Senate Estimates hearing in which he can expect to be grilled on rescinding the appointment of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as Australia’s representatives at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Let’s hope he doesn’t refuse to answer questions citing the external review of the selection process announced last week. It would help avoid the fate suffered by predecessor, Tony Grybowski.
Seeking a quieter Australia: on the silencing of Khaled Sabsabi

Feb 16, 2025 | overland.org.au | Micaela Sahhar |Kate Larsen |Daz Chandler

For five days, the Australian representative to the 2026 Venice Biennale was to be the first ever Arab-Australian artist selected for this honour. The decision to showcase Khaled Sabsabi’s work at this prestigious international art festival was brought to Parliamentary Question Time on February 13, 2025.
Echoing of the white gaze in Evie Wyld’s The Echoes

Feb 12, 2025 | overland.org.au | Karen Wyld |Scott Robinson |John Kinsella

Shortly after Europeans bumped into the southern continent that they’d been mythicising with fantastical drawings in the large blank section on their maps, fantastical white tales were penned. Centuries later, authors are still writing fiction that mythologises and dehumanises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and too many of these works are being published in Australia and beyond.