Overland Issue 219, cover designed by Christchurch artist Marian Maguire

On Thursday June 4, VicBooks hosted the launch of Overland Issue 219, you can see some photos here

Overland is a suite of online and paper publications with the mission to ‘foster new, original and progressive work exploring the relationship between politics and culture, especially literature, and to bring that work to as many people as possible.’ There website is here

Overland Editor Jacinda Woodhead, Guest Editor Giovanni Tiso and Poetry Editor Robert Sullivan

Links:

Giovanni Tiso’s post about editing Overland on his blog Bat, Bean, Beam

How to make paper fortune tellers

In this podcast you’ll hear from Giovanni and Robert Sullivan but Jolisa Gracewood, fiction editor, was unable to attend and I ended up reading her speech. You can find some of Jolisa’s work at Busytown on Public Address

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Episode 18: Overland Aotearoa Launch