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Overland – Australia’s only radical literary magazine – has been showcasing brilliant and progressive fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art since 1954. The magazine has published some of Australia’s most iconic voices, and continues to give space to underrepresented voices and brand-new literary talent every single day.
In 2018, Overland is a quarterly print journal (publishing essays, stories and poetry), and an online magazine publishing cultural commentary each week day, as well as occasional special online editions of fiction and poetry. The magazine also holds events, discussions and debates, hosts a number of major literary competitions, and runs a residency for underrepresented writers. Source
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| Scope | National |
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| Language | English |
| Country | Australia |
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Search ArticlesThe general intellect on the picket line: after the first strike in the Australian software industry
In early April, workers at the multinational tech company DXC “walked off the job and onto the picket line” in what their union have claimed as the first strike in the Australian software industry. It couldn’t have come at a more critical time. The action was the culmination of a long-running dispute. A small proportion of the DXC workforce were employed on old contacts that had been signed prior to a 2010 change in industrial relations law.
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259: Feb/Mar 2026 In this highly anticipated new issue, we encounter brilliant examples of what writing can do in a hypernormal time – whether that's Benjamin Gready on the absurdity of fieldwork on land under active occupation or Zahid Gamieldien's short story about a dancing rat who finds itself enmeshed in systems too shadowy to be true. But, as with the emotional cycles of resistance, hope and snark are features too.
“We are the guardians of where we live”: the other face of the campaign to end sealing
In 2024, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory travelled to Toronto to cut open a fat, silver-haired seal beneath the glass ceiling of the Art Gallery of Ontario. The rules and regulations of the Canadian government were none of her concern.
The books we don’t want to defend: literary fiction, censorship and the case of Daddy’s Little Toy
Every so often, a court case arrives that seems, at first glance, too ugly to defend and too strange to ignore. The conviction of western Sydney erotic fiction author Lauren Ashley Mastrosa is one of those cases. In April 2026, Mastrosa was convicted of possessing, disseminating and producing child abuse material in contravention of the NSW Crimes Act after self-publishing an erotic novel, Daddy’s Little Toy, under a pen name.
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You last saw him in New York for your mother’s third wedding, heedlessly flying out of Melbourne with little confirmation the country would allow you back in. It was a different time in the tail-end of 2021; elastic straps pinching behind the ears to secure polypropylene rectangles against everyone’s mouths, and the large stickers on the ground two metres apart caused longer queues in the airports and a sense of guilt for leaving your house at all. International travel, inherently selfish.
Looksmaxxing the transsexual
My friend sends me a reel of Troy Bolton during the montage in High School Musical — which is experimental and weirdly beautiful — where Troy, torn between basketball and music, is tearing his way down the empty school corridors, the camera turning upside down as he seems to climb up the walls. The reel is overlayed with the soundtrack of the trans film I Saw the TV Glow, full of longing and desire. It’s a perfect edit, an inspired pulling together of the two texts.
Associate Professor Matthew Champion – Please reject the Dan David Prize
Dear A.Prof Champion, We are academics, writers, activists, and students, who write to urge you to rescind your acceptance of the Dan David Prize 2026. The Dan David Prize has been critiqued globally for a number of years on account of its normalising the colonial occupation of Palestine, and Israel’s apartheid regime.
The unequal summer: why Australia’s poorest communities are paying the highest price
Heat kills more Australians than floods, bushfires, and cyclones combined, yet it remains one of the least discussed public health problems in the country. The death toll alone should have been enough to start a national conversation. Between 2016 and 2019, researchers counted over a thousand heat-related deaths across the country, and the numbers showed something that public health officials had suspected for a long time. The people dying weren’t spread evenly across the population.
The strains of surrealism in sad realities
259: Feb/Mar 2026 In this highly anticipated new issue, we encounter brilliant examples of what writing can do in a hypernormal time – whether that's Benjamin Gready on the absurdity of fieldwork on land under active occupation or Zahid Gamieldien's short story about a dancing rat who finds itself enmeshed in systems too shadowy to be true. But, as with the emotional cycles of resistance, hope and snark are features too.
Financial power in the public university: the case of ANU
There is a particular kind of frustration that accumulates in universities. It’s the result of being told the university is poor, that there are uncertainties and headwinds that could turn into storms, that students are turning away, or failing to enrol at the rates the executive projected, that everyone must tighten their belts. And then watching new buildings go up. Hearing about investments in AI infrastructure.