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25.01.2022 We hope you're ready for some 2020 Zoom horror, because our Friday Fictions are back for 2021! Please enjoy this fantastic new story from Charle Malycon: https://overland.org.au/2021/01/fiction-caryatid/

24.01.2022 It's only by understanding that the Liberals' sole aim is consolidating power that we can understand their policies towards the pandemic and Victoria, writes Maddison Stoff.

23.01.2022 'Capitalism in crisis, faced with the inevitable consequences of its own internal contradictions, is the perfect nutrient for fascist ideas, for desperate terrors and paranoias that create demons and project them into the world.' Stephen Wright on QAnon.

20.01.2022 The Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia. The prize, now in its fifth year, awards $5000 to one Indigenous writer 30 years or younger and $500 to two runner-up entries. In this very special event, hosted by Overland's co-editor Evelyn Araluen, each of the incredibly talented poets will read their ...shortlisted poems. You'll hear readings from Tais Rose, Jazz Money, Jasmin Mcgaughey, Kirli Saunders, Kartanya Maynard, Grace Lucas-Pennington, Ancestress and Vika Mana. We'll also be announcing the final results of the Nakata Brophy Poetry Prize in 2020, including the two runners-up and the winning poem! We hope you can join us! We'll be streaming the event here on Friday October 9 at 19:30pm. See more

19.01.2022 A huge thank you to everyone who joined our special event for the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. We'd like to congratulate our winner of this year's prize for poetry, Grace Lucas-Pennington, as well as our runners-up Jazz Money and Tais Rose. A huge thank you to all our shortlisted poets - we loved all of your work and we're so excited to see what is next for each of you. The event will remain viewable through our Facebook and Youtube pages. Find out about the winning and shortlisted poems below. 'Superposition' will be available in our upcoming edition, which will be with subscribers next week. Check online in coming weeks to read 'Sweet Smoke' and 'From A Place, Unknown'. https://overland.org.au//final-results-of-the-2020-nakata/

18.01.2022 This year Samah Sabawi submitted an op-ed to ABC Religion only to see it published alongside a response by the Zionist Federation of Australia, who were given access to it without her knowledge. She writes about her complaint and its lessons.

18.01.2022 Fiction reviews time! Michalia Arathimos covers new work by Laura Elvery, Hannelore Cayre and C Pam Zhang.

17.01.2022 'Heartbroken is the adjective I’ve seen mentioned most in relation to the loss of Ania. Like a piece of Melbourne’s heart is missing.' A collective tribute to the wonderful Ania Walwicz by Jacinda Woodhead, Clare Strahan and Benjamin Laird.

14.01.2022 "In this moment, I do not believe in the ancestors. I do not believe in Neil or the spaceship or the moon. I do not believe in the three hills of Maratosy Little or the multi-celled sponge with seventeen sexes. I don’t even believe in apple seed oil. I only believe that I am here and that I have eaten. I am not hungry. I am Jo." Today's Friday Fiction from Daniel Hutley is a lyrical fable about death, and haunting meditation on the nature and role of storytelling: https://overland.org.au/2020/10/fiction-ounya-passed/

13.01.2022 The history of the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s is still alive in how we imagine and experience the urban space today, writes Molly Mckew.

12.01.2022 ‘‘They literally want us permanently trapped in their Time Cube’ a friend had told me, when I had asked him for the thousandth time what on earth was going on with the internet.’ Tom loss on the internet the Time Cube.

12.01.2022 'The 26th of January is a wandering ghoul, dead, but not knowing it is dead. No one owns it, no one wants to take responsibility for getting rid of it, and no-one knows how to get rid of it.' Barry Corr on #InvasionDay

12.01.2022 'Reaching into war’s back catalogue in search of redemption means that a fresh, unique identity heading into this so-called ‘new era’ of Australian cricket remains elusive.' Daniel Seaton on THE TEST. https://overland.org.au//anzackery-and-the-arc-of-redempt/

12.01.2022 'We never did anything wrong, so now I gotta write for my own sanity' From Yilinhi - Lorna Munro, a special poem of honouring, mourning, and resilience. https://overland.org.au/2021/01/poetry-when-can-we-heal/

11.01.2022 Have you entered our inaugural Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature yet? With a $7000 prize pool, this is a new competition to award excellence in Australian literature - whether that be fiction, poetry, essay, memoir, visual or audio storytelling. Head to our website for more details https://overland.org.au//kuracca-prize-for-australian-lit/

11.01.2022 'I have an intertextual relationship with the internet: my writing practice could not have existed without it, as much as I could not have grown as a person without it. Even if I’m not directly addressing online-ness in my work, I’m always in conversation with it.' Our latest longread is a lecture by Cher Tan on punk, DYI and being extremely online (plus many other things).

09.01.2022 Overland #239 is out today! We're so excited for you to read this issue made in the midst of a crisis and a reflection of the thoughts and ideas of many exceptional writers on the subject of health what it means to them, how it defines their lives, relationships and the everyday. Equal parts personal and deliberative, Overland 239 spans essays, memoir, fiction, art and poetry and represents a diverse and intersecting meditation on health, illness and wellbeing. Subscribe to Overland today for your copy!

07.01.2022 'THE JAKARTA METHOD meticulously traces the role of the US in the events in Indonesia and connects them to a wider ‘monstrous international network of extermination’ that existed in the second half of the twentieth century.' Naish Gawen on Vincent Bevins.

07.01.2022 "There were voices on the train but no bodies. A bruise sat green and yellow on my knee and Lou rubbed at it with an open palm. He left his hand there and I wondered if we were just playing at being grownups, if it was mirrored action." Some fresh Friday fiction for you! We hope you enjoy Bethany Lalor's bittersweet story of youth and uncertainty. https://overland.org.au/2020/11/fiction-bundeena/

07.01.2022 In the interest of starting our 2021 online publishing schedule with a bang, here's Sam Wallman on the eviction of rough sleepers in Victoria and who's to blame for the housing crisis.

06.01.2022 'Deeply anti-democratic in its methods, [the CPA] organised some of the best democratic activists in unions, in theatres, in community and cultural life ... and reflected the genuine militant and democratic aspirations of many Australian workers.' Martin Greeenfield on the centenary of the Communist Party of Australia.

06.01.2022 Just the thing to kick-start your weekend, a lovely Friday poem from Pam Brown https://overland.org.au/2020/10/poetry-lingering/

05.01.2022 "The deeply romantic, and completely fictional, view of the countryside constructed by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable and Keats, shares Cottagecore’s tendency for idealisation. Neither the world of the Romantics or that of the Cottagecore community really exists. It is a heady, sentimental bucolic ideal. The rosy cheeks, the trees groaning with fruit, the ovens always on the verge of being opened to reveal a freshly baked pie are a fantasy." New from Hannah Copestake - the beauty and the fantasy of the internet's latest obsession. https://overland.org.au//cottagecore-the-new-new-romantics/

04.01.2022 'With Australian job losses continuing to rise in our first recession in thirty years, and many of the jobs that remain being done from home, there’s perhaps never been a better time to sit down and (re)watch THE NANNY.' Erin McFadyen has done just that.

01.01.2022 That Australia has fared well in the pandemic 'provides little comfort to those who have lost relatives as a result of an utterly mismanaged aged care response,' writes Marama Whyte.