Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954. | Editors: @evelynaraluen @jonathandunk @gtiso @ccorbettauthor
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It’s our end-of-year affair! Hosted at the Fringe Common Rooms (Trades Hall) join Nam Le, John Kinsella, Lucy Van, π.O., Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak, Neika Lehman and the Overland crew for a night to take stock of these last few complicated years. RSVP: tally.so/r/OQQvOp
“…and I’m imagining this journey because I’ll never be able to afford to go to Antarctica to see the stored water that will kill our future children;”
From IMAGINARY POEM, the latest from the great Toby Fitch.
overland.org.au/2026/11/imag…
Our mossy-green issue 261 will be in your mailboxes very shortly. Need to subscribe, renew, or gift a sub for the holidays? Head to overland.org.au/shop. Need to update your address? Email Emma at [email protected]. 🍀
"History tells us that this is the perfect moment to sell everyone on a tired and ineffective economic ideology, again."
André Vartan-Boghossian offers a neoliberal dictionary for the (already-happening) next economic crisis. overland.org.au/2026/11/a-ne…
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You've got less than a month until submissions close, make sure you get them in on time! Head here:
The 2026 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize is now open for submissions. Read more and submit here: overland.org.au/2026-neilma-…
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Closing in less than a month! Get your submissions in now:
The 2026 Judith Wright Poetry Prize is now open for submissions. Read more and submit here: overland.org.au/2026-judith-…
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“Rather than asking what the ideal strategy is, we should ask: what tactics are possible, necessary and effective in the world as it exists today? And what tactics can we afford not to use?”
Gabriela Silva Loureiro on the lessons from Lula's victory. overland.org.au/2026/11/less…
“The day after his father beat him for something that was my fault, but for which I escaped any consequence, James Royal and I went looking for the dead whale.”
Our latest #fridayfiction is HEADLAND, by Harry Goddard.
overland.org.au/2026/11/head…
“If the art cinema spectator is at work, and that work is impeded by the presence of a mother and baby, then what does that say about the nature of caregiving?”
Alicia Byrnes on the "baby incident" at a screening of Minotaur and maternal labour. overland.org.au/2026/11/miff…
“Australia has the money, the expertise, the institutions, and the public support to reverse this crisis. What it doesn’t have is the political will to stop approving the destruction of the same habitat it claims to be protecting.”
overland.org.au/2026/11/natu…
“Drew has assigned images of deceased ancestors an ongoing public life they could not have anticipated and cannot refuse.”
Tiana Marshall Wong on Peter Drew’s “Aussie” posters and the ethics of representation.
overland.org.au/2026/10/an-u…
“I don’t want or need representation or ret-conning. I want to see what happens to the celluloid of my childhood memories when the maligned, the twisted, and the monstrous take hold of the camera."
Arani Ahmed on CAMP MIASMA as trans cinema.
overland.org.au/2026/10/camp…
“A future with trans people in it is possible, and there is much to be gained by fighting together.”
Shoshana Rosenberg reviews Raewyn Connell’s TRANS LIVES — with the generous support of the @CopyrightAgency's Cultural Fund.
overland.org.au/2026/10/pull…
“... it’s all
dramatic: the world becoming shapes. A mound
in the mid-distance, already sub-
merged, those clutching the roof turning to barely
blotches;”
Our latest #fridaypoem, by Jocasta Suzanne, take its inspiration from Winifred Knights' THE DELUGE.
overland.org.au/2026/10/the-…
“These exhibitions closed the distance of conflict, creating in its place room to learn, listen, grieve and form connections.”
Tahney Fosdike on the Gaza Biennale in Sarajevo. overland.org.au/2026/10/witn…
We are now stocked right around the country! Check out our list of stockists to see if your local bookshop has a copy of issue 260. Want to stock us for future issues? Email Emma at [email protected].
"The process of editing, talking, thinking, arguing, debating, and critiquing together matters deeply to our organising."
Alex Kelly on what happens if we devolve to AI the everyday tasks that stitch together relationships and entire social movements. overland.org.au/2026/10/thin…
“Joy had, after all, messed up the office coffee order. This was insufferable, said her colleagues.
“Protect the space. Call security. Point to the exit. For the sake of the workplace. Was a mistake.””
From JOB READY, a brand new story by Kristen Tytler overland.org.au/2026/10/job-…
"The Archibald’s presentation turns an artistic relationship into an institutional narrative of friendship and reconciliation, while the formal language of the portrait draws on a racialised visual vocabulary whose politics are largely left unexamined." overland.org.au/2026/10/the-…
"What happens when a regulator committed to consistency asks universities to treat different forms of racism through different definitions?"
An open statement by members of SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND DUE PROCESS on their "dehumanisation" standard. overland.org.au/2026/10/coul…
