Page Text: Published on 15-10-2020
ISBN 9770030741006
Health: Vanamali Hermans on the institutionalisation of care, Samuel Lieblich on psychiatry, Alice Whitmore on mental health, winner of the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous writers, plus new poetry and fiction.
Published on 24 June 2020
ISBN 978-0-6485797-3-1
Radical: Toby Fitch on Sean Bonney, Dujuan Hoosan on Aboriginal history, Elena Gomez on poetics, Micaela Sahhar on Palestine, winners of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize.
Published on 15 April 2020
Enjoy the best of Autumn fiction selected by guest editor, writer Allan Drew.
Published on 9 December 2019
ISBN 978-0-6485-797-2-4
On: failure; labour in publishing and bookselling; families and prison; co-translation; the German Revolution; The Matrix; and misreading justice. With a stunning selection of fiction and poetry. Contains the 2019 Fair Australia prizewinners. Artwork and illustrations by Matt Chun.
Published on 21 October 2019
ISBN 978-0-6485797-1-7
A damning journalistic investigation into the death of dancer Stacey Tierney, the role of the car in climate politics, how streaming culture is changing us, the highs and lows of doorknocking, plus a selection of superb new poetry, the winner of the Nakata Brophy Prize, and the three writers who placed in the 2019 VU Short Story Prize, Joyce Chew, Jack Vening and Laura Elvery. With comics and cover art by Sam Wallman.
Speculative future(s)
Published on 18 October 2019
Eda Gunaydin guest edits an online speculative fiction edition of stories presenting alternative futures that transcend the pessimism of the present. Featuring works by Hannah Jenkins, Jasmin McGaughey, Cat Nadel, Joe Ramshaw and Andrew Roff.
Published on 23 July 2019
ISBN 978-0-6485797-0-0
Walking through coal country, the gunboat nation in a lifeboat world, the agency of pregnant women, re-reading Primo Levi, and medicine and racism. First edition with new fiction editor Claire Corbett, with works by Jem Tyley-Miller, KA Rees, Laura Elvery, Elizabeth Flux and Ben Walter, and stunning poetry from Ouyang Yu, Ivy Alvarez, Eileen Chong, Norman Erikson Pasaribu and others. Art by political cartoonist Tia Kass.
Future sex
Published on 14 June 2019
Michalia Arathimos guest edits an online fiction edition about the future of sex – stories that explore how we approach sexuality now and tomorrow. Featuring works by Sophiya Sharma, DG Reynolds, Patton Quinn and Drew Roberts.
234.5: an autumn fiction edition with 16 editors!
Published on 3 May 2019
Sixteen of Overland’s fiction readers worked together for several months to curate and edit this autumn fiction edition. Featuring superb short fiction from Georgia Angus, John Charalambous, Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Anne Hotta and Katerina Gibson.
Published on 11 April 2019
ISBN 978-0-9954162-9-1
Alexis Wright on censorship, Fiona Wright on Tinder, Gabriel Ng on anti-Chinese sentiment, Adam Curley on Survivor, Cambodia and love, plus fire cults, the occupation of Kashmir and a cultural history of swimming. Includes the winning poems from the Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Fiction guest-edited by Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk. Art by the award-winning Hoda Afshar.
Published on 12 December 2018
ISBN 978-0-9954162-8-4
Featuring a red-armband history of 26 January, an analysis of Australian medievalism, a case for the eleven best essays of the past 3,533 days, and a comparative study of #IndigenousDads and the Noongar letters archive. Includes brilliant, provocative fiction and poetry, as well as the results of the 2018 Fair Australia Prize. Guest artist: Mary Leunig.
If you've come here to help me: solidarity beyond borders
Published on 6 December 2018
The Migration Amendment Bill, that would guarantee required medical treatment for people imprisoned in Australian offshore camps, is needed. It is also the smallest possible step that could be taken in dismantling the brutal Australian border regime: a regime enacted not just in the camps, but across all levels of Australian life.
Tribulations from the digital frontier
Published on 12 November 2018
Mitchell Welch guest edits an online poetry edition of ‘internet poetry’ – poetry disguised as digital frustrations in the form of frontier fomes. Featuring works by Andy Connor, Liam Ferney, Laura Jean Mckay and Toby Fitch.
Published on 15 October 2018
ISBN 978-0-9954162-7-7
The ways we talk about race, precarity and practice, copyright and bullshit, rethinking privilege, and Australia’s cultural insecurity. Contains the winning stories from the VU Short Story Prize, and poetry from Anders Villani, Holly Friedlander Liddicoat, Ellen van Neerven and others. Guest artist: Bella Li.
The 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize
Published on 11 October 2018
Results from the 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize, Australia’s only open-age Indigenous poetry prize for an unpublished poem. With poems from Brenda Saunders, Claire G Coleman and Yvette Henry Holt.
Published on 31 July 2018
ISBN 978-0-9954162-6-0
From Utopia to the West Bank, literature and class, how to teach writing, Gay Liberation after the postal vote and racism in the academy. Fiction by Paddy O’Reilly, Michelle Aung Thin, Josephine Rowe and Ben Walter, as well as thrilling poetry, including this year’s Nakata Brophy winner, Raelee Lancaster. Guest artist: Seth Tobocman.
False Documents
Published on 18 July 2018
Dave Drayton guest edits an online fiction edition of ‘false documents’ – fiction disguised as ‘real’ textual artefacts. Featuring works by Paul Perilli, Paul Spinks, Sonia Focke and Tony Messenger.
Seventy years of the Nakba
Published on 15 May 2018
This special edition marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when, in 1948, more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. In 2018, the violent occupation of Palestine and its people continues.
230.5: Autumn fiction
Published on 1 May 2018
Linda Godfrey guest edits the latest in Overland’s online fiction editions. Featuring short stories by Claire Baxter, Cameron Colwell, Melissa Manning and Sophie Overett.
Published on 12 April 2018
ISBN 978-0-9954162-5-3
The history of Black GST, encounters with cuttlefish, working with climate grief and the state of the Australian short story. Also contains the winning entries of the 2017 Judith Wright Poetry and Neilma Sidney Short Story prizes, plus short fiction, poetry and more. Guest artist: Charlotte Allingham.
Published on 20 December 2017
ISBN 978-0-9954162-4-6
An issue examining being charged with terrorism, playing the same computer game for 25 years, the legacy of Paradise Lost, the censorship of suicide, sexism in the arts and Australia’s custodial culture. Includes brilliant, provocative fiction, poetry and artwork, as well as the results of the 2017 Fair Australia Prize.
Published on 26 October 17
ISBN 978-0-9954162-3-9
In an edition marking 100 years since the Russian Revolution, writers examine the Cold War, Roswell, nineteenth-century terrorism, virtual reality, and religion in times of revolution. Includes fiction by and an interview with Peter Carey, and the winners of the VU Short Story Prize.
227.5 Spring fiction
Published on 20 October 2017
Novelist Anna Spargo-Ryan guest edits Overland’s spring fiction edition, ‘Own stories’. Featuring short stories from across the globe by Paola Ferrante, Jessie Berry-Porter, Ladi Opaluwa and Claire Varley.
Published on 17 July 2017
ISBN 978-0-9954162-2-2
The appropriation of decolonialism, the dark history of Australian eugenics, innovation under capitalism and Sydney’s gambling addiction. Features the winning stories from the Nakata Brophy Prize, as well as fantastic fiction, poetry and regular columns from Alison Croggon, Mel Campbell, Giovanni Tiso and Tony Birch.
The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize
Published on 29 September 2017
Administered by Queensland Poetry Festival, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia's only open-age award for outstanding unpublished poems by Indigenous writers.
226.5 Autumn fiction
Published on 12 April 2017
Natasha Batten guest edits the first of Overland's fiction issues for 2017. Featuring short stories from Rebecca Slater, Stevi-Lee Alver, Stuart Wilkinson and David Turnbull.
Published on 28 March 2017
ISBN 978-0-9954162-1-5
Homophobia in the workplace, populism in the Philippines, the war on Indigenous languages and the need to resist apocalyptic despair. Also contains the winning entries of the 2016 Judith Wright Poetry and Neilma Sidney Short Story prizes, as well as other excellent short fiction and poetry.
Published on 14 December 2016
ISBN 978-0-9954162-0-8
When literary heroines meet radical times, fighting Australia's Far Right, the ethics of sex with robots, Trumpism beyond Trump, and the state of the contemporary working class. Includes the winning entries from the 2016 Fair Australia Prize.
224.5 Spring fiction
Published on 28 September 2016
Mandy Beaumont and Craig Bolland guest edit Overland's online Spring 2016 fiction issue with the theme of ‘The idea of women’. Featuring short stories by Ariane Both, Sally Breen, Judyth Emanuel and Fikret Pajalic, and a mixed media piece by Vivienne Cutbush.
Published on 23 September 2016
ISBN 9780977517145
Labour activism in China, why politicians can’t understand poverty and fiction’s potential to change the world. Includes the winning entries for the 2016 Victorian University Short Story Prize and regular columnists Alison Croggon, Mel Campbell and Natalie Harkin.
The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize
Published on 6 October 2016
Administered by Queensland Poetry Festival, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia's only open-age award, presented to an outstanding unpublished poem by Indigenous writers.
Published on 6 July 2016
ISBN 978-0-9775171-3-8
South Africa’s decolonisation movement, left-wing police detectives, the ritual of coming out, the fate of literature, sexism in literary prizes, the New Zealand dream John Key sells, plus original fiction, poetry and the Nakata Brophy Prize.
222.5 Autumn fiction
Published on 18 April 2016
Ben Walter guest edits the first of Overland’s online fiction issues for 2016 with an un-/dis-/anti-Australian theme. Featuring short stories by Alex Cothren, Zahid Gamieldien, Laura McPhee-Browne and Jessica Yu.
Published on 4 April 2016
ISBN 978-0-9750837-6-5
South Sudan five years after independence, race and racism in Australian poetry, the mass industrialisation of meat and a history of police involvement in crime television. Plus outstanding original fiction and the finalists of both the Judith Wright Poetry and the Neilma Sidney Short Story prizes.
Published on 17 December 2015
ISBN 9780992280697
Class war in the arts, transgender justice, speed-reading, Facebook’s ‘real name’ policy, housing politics, and the many myths of Marconi. Plus prize-winning fiction and Peter Minter’s final poetry selection.
Published on 31 August 2015
ISBN 9780992280680
Tensions in Europe’s borderlands, transcending climate change, the fight to keep public housing on Sydney’s waterfront, aesthetics and politics in science fiction, and a visit capitalism’s graveyard. Plus fiction by Omar Musa and Zahid Gamieldien, cutting-edge poetry and more.
Aotearoa online
Published on 31 July 2015
A special issue of contemporary New Zealand nonfiction, featuring Naomi Arnold, Megan Clayton, Murdoch Stephens and David Young. Edited by Giovanni Tiso.
219.5 Winter fiction
Published on 23 June 2015
Rachel Hennessy guest edits Overland’s 2015 winter fiction. Featuring short stories by Shannon Burns, Kalia Forde, Joshua Kemp and Emma Rayward.
Published on 11 June 2015
ISBN 978-0-9922806-7-3
The stories told about our colonial histories, the similarities between Gaza and Ferguson, working with whistleblowers, defence lawyers and rape trials, Tonga after Feta Helu, original fiction, poetry and more.
Published on 30 March 2015
ISBN 978-0-9922806-6-6
Overcoming literary jealousy, the origins of Gamergate, the normalisation of torture and Australia's new Book Council, as well as excellent fiction – and the winners of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize and the Nakata Brophy Prize.
218.5: Autumn fiction
Published on 21 April 2015
Khalid Warsame guest edits the first of Overland’s online fiction issues for 2015. Featuring short stories by Dom Amerena, Kate Elkington, Imogen McCluskey, and Camille Renaud.
Photonic Overland
Published on 10 December 2014
Benjamin Laird curates Overland’s second edition of electronic and digital-born poetry. Features Pascalle Burton, Mez Breeze, Panos Couros, Josh Mei-Ling Dubrau, Ian Gibbins, Christopher Rodley, Omar Sakr and Peter Wildman.
Published on 12 November 2014
ISBN 978-0-9922806-5-9
Writing an African novel, work and ‘happiness’, the enduring appeal of Sherlock Holmes, a tale of two settler colonies, the Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize winners, poetry and more.
216.5: Summer fiction
Published on 30 October 2014
Kate Goldsworthy guest edits the latest in Overland’s online fiction issues. Featuring short stories by Laura Stortenbeker, Katherine Brabon, Ariella Van Luyn, and Iranian writer, Amirreza Esmaily.
Published on 26 August 2014
ISBN 978-0-9922806-4-2
Words against power, queer writing in Africa, perspectives on lit mags, overcoming writer's block and much more.
Published on 27 May 2014
ISBN 978-0-9922806-3-5
On being Queer and Indigenous, protest in a post-democracy era, the vocabulary of austerity, organising writers, Wolf Creek 2 as radical cinema and the history of girls in detention.
214.5: New fiction
Published on 30 April 2014
Writer, editor and ‘Slow Canoe’ founder Oliver Driscoll edits Overland’s first online fiction issue for 2014. Featuring short stories by Tim Buckley, Jennifer Down, Josephine Scicluna and Mardi O’Connor.
Published on 7 April 2014
ISBN 978-0-9922806-2-8
Working in a detention centre, revisiting the legend of Breaker Morant, spy novels in the Soviet Bloc, writing to Susan Sontag about gaming, and winners of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize.
213.5: Summer fiction
Published on 17 December 2013
Author SJ Finn guest edits the second of Overland’s online fiction issues for 2013. Featuring short stories by Alice Bishop, Patrick Holloway, Louise Spence and Sam Wieck.
Published on 5 December 2013
ISBN 978-0-9922806-1-1
An Englishman ‘lost among the Afghans’, Arnold Zable talks with Alexis Wright, fighting back against rape culture, whether writers should perform, and winners of the Short Story Prize.
Electronic Overland
Published on 19 November 2013
Benjamin Laird curates Overland's first edition of electronic and digital-born poetry. Features Mez Breeze, Jim Andrews, Jason Nelson, Pip Smith, Gary Barwin, Hazel Smith (with Roger Dean and Greg White), Tully Hansen and Jessica Rae.
Published on 6 September 2013
ISBN 978-0-9922806-0-4
Australia and Nauru, writing someone else's oppression, the evolution of the Greens, writing and health, and arts funding in an age of austerity.
211.5: Winter fiction
Published on 11 July 2013
Emerging editor Emily Laidlaw guest edits the first of Overland’s online fiction issues for 2013. Featuring short stories by Kristin Hannaford, Melissa Howard, Kelli Lonergan and Samuel Rutter.
Published on 21 June 2013
ISBN 978-0-9871301-9-8
Ned Kelly's skull, feminism and bodybuilding, writers and payment, the pros and cons of crowdfunding, plus new fiction and poetry.
Audio Overland II: Resistance
Published on 24 April 2013
Maxine Clarke curates Overland’s second spoken word edition, featuring ten original recordings of audio poetry exploring the theme ‘resistance’. Issue includes our first international spoken word artist, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo.
Published on 26 March 2013
ISBN 978-0-9871301-8-1
Terror and the Great American Novel; coming out queer and Muslim; how environmentalists get climate change wrong; plus the winners of the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize.
Published on 21 November 2012
ISBN 978-0-9871301-6-7
Crisis and time, Riot Grrrls and Russia, JD Salinger’s toilet, indefinite detention, the looting of Darwin, radical theatre, counter-hegemonic writing, how writers survive, and more.
Published on 23 August 2012
ISBN 978-0-9871301-5-0
The death of newspapers, a reply on fat activism, the potential of outsider porn and much, much more.
Published on 6 August 2012
Maxine Clarke curates Overland’s first selection of spoken word, featuring seven original recordings of audio poetry.
Published on 30 July 2012
Emerging editor and