Author Description

OVERLAND is Australia's most exciting literary magazine - and the only major journal to publish from an explicitly progressive perspective. Since 1954, it has featured essays, fiction, poetry, reviews, comments and artwork from the nation's best writers and thinkers, from Patrick White to Cate Kennedy. Now in its fifty-ninth year, Overland continues to highlight ideas and authors you won't find anywhere else. In edition 211, OVERLAND spies are turning to fiction, goes inside the world of women's bodybuilding, investigates the fight over abortion rights in Queensland, debates whether writers should work for free, explores a new theory on what happened to bushranger Ned Kelly's head after his execution, uncovers the perils of literary crowd-funding and queries the political potential of online campaigning. Plus three new stories, a swag of new poetry, correspondence and much, much more.