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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 ArticlesAn unconsenting medium: Peter Drew’s “Aussie” posters and the ethics of representation
A decade after they first launched, Peter Drew’s Aussie posters continue to occupy public spaces across Australia, often receiving a positive reception as a multicultural triumph. But the posters’ inclusive message obscures an extractive practice that has received minimal attention: the use of deceased racialised people’s likenesses without prior family consultation, or meaningful community input over their subsequent circulation and commercialisation.
Camp Miasma is everything a trans, literary geek could ask for
dFor decades queer artists have been pushing the boundaries of genre expectations — bending, breaking and serving them back to us as new ways to read and speak to queer narratives. With Jane Schoenbrun’s films, it feels like we’ve entered a new era. One where the lens isn’t a reconfiguring of genre, but rather genre stripped of any pretence about the reality of our campy, queer world. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is slasher horror down to its last breath.
Pulling out the dagger: on Raewyn Connell’s Trans Lives
Raewyn Connell’s book opens with an almost matter-of-fact rundown of global trans politics over the past century, situating the reader firmly in the material reality of trans peoples. Although Connell is an established institutional scholar, this book is not ivory tower theorising nor is it simply a “trans 101” but rather a wide-ranging look at transness and its impact on both trans and cis peoples everywhere.
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After Winifred Knights Geometric the houses, geometric white sides of the English steeple, the load bearing walls, the cubist windows, overlooking the spheroid village green, post—post impressionistic hay bales — what were they doing in the centre of Mayfield/Sturminster Newton/insert [x] name from the Domesday book? — the white starboard, sinisterly windowless, of the cruise liner in the background like a child’s folded boat, and blue diagonals of rain; someone is carrying a cup or a baby.
Witnesses across siege: art, resistance and the Gaza Biennale in Sarajevo
“Destroyed spaces and cold apartments without windows were our living conditions, spaces of fear awaiting the next series of bombings, killings. In the breaks from these conditions there appeared something like a spirit of resistance, defiance and dignity that defended us.” Dr Razija Lagumdzija, war diary entry, 24 April 1993 “This general from the hill has told us that we’ve lost our minds. And we write, we paint, we take notes. And we remember.
Thinking together in the age of AI
Fundamentally, the question is what a movement needs to know and to know how to do in order to bring about the change it needs … (Laurence Cox) I am distressed by AI and tech bro fascists, intensive water and energy use, racial bias, errors, surveillance, policing, knowledge collapse, hallucinations, bioweapons, critical thinking and labour and intellectual property issues.
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Open office: a sacking in three acts In her first performance review, Joy’s colleagues said: “Asks the wrong questions. At the wrong time.” In her second, they said: “Doesn’t know the space. Made a mistake. Needs to be reminded of that mistake. Doesn’t know the space. Was told to stop making mistakes. Is encroaching on the space. Made a mistake. Needed daily reminding. In case the mistake were forgotten. In case the mistake were repeated. Needs to be gotten rid of. In case. Just in case.
The Prize that looked away
The Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales has closed its doors for another year and embarked on its regional tour, yet a silence followed the ceremony. For a portrait prize that claims to prefer figures “distinguished in art, science, letters or politics”, almost no one has asked what this year’s glossy, sentimental prize‑winners’ artworks are actually doing — or avoiding doing.
Could a “dehumanisation” standard offer a fairer way for universities to tackle racism?
On 3 September 2026, Australia’s university regulator, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), gave universities just two weeks to respond to a proposal that potentially has far-reaching consequences for campus free speech and academic freedom. Its draft Statement of Regulatory Expectations requires universities to adopt a definition of antisemitism, with definitions of Islamophobia and racism against First Nations people to follow.
Dear writers’ festivals, we need to talk about comics
1 ~ False dawns Comics in Australia have had a big win. Perhaps this isn’t obvious to all, but comics don’t usually get shortlisted for book awards, let alone win them. Yet Lee Lai won the 2026 Stella Prize for her outstanding graphic novel Cannon.