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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1 month 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

1 month 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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1 month 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.
Seeking a quieter Australia: on the silencing of Khaled Sabsabi

2 months ago | 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

2 months ago | 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.
Writing from the South: an interview with Kim Scott

2 months ago | overland.org.au | Linda Walker

At the end of October 2023, Kim Scott travelled to Adelaide to speak at the Stories from the South Book Club, a public event held at Dymocks, Rundle Mall that focused on his most recent novel, Taboo (2017). I chaired the evening’s conversations, which featured Scott in dialogue with Professor Stephen Muecke, before opening the floor to a discussion with the audience.
Open letter on academic freedom, in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah

2 months ago | overland.org.au | Andrew Brooks |Lana Tatour

We, the undersigned, write to express our condemnation of the decision by the Education Minister Jason Clare to request the Australian Research Council (ARC) to investigate the Future Fellowship of Macquarie University academic Randa Abdel-Fattah “as a matter of priority”.
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2 months ago | overland.org.au | Sam Wallman |Sofia Sabbagh

254 Autumn 2024 Overland 254 is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. This issue also launches a new design and format by Common Room Editions, inspired by Overland’s trove of radical literature spanning from 1954 to today.
Slippery totalities: appendices on oil and politics in Australia and beyond

Dec 19, 2024 | overland.org.au | Scott Robinson

“Can anything be done?”“So much can be done,” I say. “But everything would have to be different.”— Joy Williams, “The Country”Royce Kurmelovs’ Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil (UQP, 2024) builds a picture of the influence of oil money in Australian politics that combines the naïve frustration and despairing sense of being cornered evoked by Williams’ dialogue.
Reading JH Prynne aloud: Poems 2016-2024

Dec 18, 2024 | overland.org.au | John Kinsella

Poems 2016-2024 is a massive, vibrant and immersive collation of JH Prynne’s small press publication across this period. Some would call it a late life creative flourish, a glorious coda, but I don’t see it this way. Rather, this is an accumulation of concerns across a lifetime that have both relied on earlier form work and newly “discovered” expressions of genre (in poetry, and generally speaking) that require recasting, resaying, and varying.