Tag Archives: Overland
Issue Three
Literature and politics: a debate
To be honest, I would have thought the problem for most writers in Australia is not that they come under fire from commissars like Genoways or Woodhead but rather that political and aesthetic questions are almost never discussed, at least in the public sphere. When, for instance, … Read more
Issue Three
Emmett Stinson’s ‘Literature, Life and How Creative Writing Programs are Ruining Everything, Apparently’
Earlier this year, Ted Genoways, editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review wrote that ‘most American writers seem to have forgotten how to write about big issues – as if giving two shits about the world has gotten crushed under the boot sole of postmodernism’. The article spawned … Read more
From the Editors
“Here we go again”: The fiction magazine sausage-fest
‘I’m just being a bitch again’, wrote Amy King, in response to a post by Blake Butler at the HTMLGIANT blog announcing the contributors for issue #2 of We Are Champion magazine. None of the ten writers is female. King originally posted a comment at the original … Read more
Press
Kill Your Darlings reviewed at the Overland blog
‘I must confess that I was initially skeptical about whether KYD could live up to its own hype. Well, dear Reader, I was wrong to have doubted’: Irma Gold’s review of Kill Your Darlings Issue One is up at the Overland blog.
