Is form following function? Are we evolving? Or, to the question I want to consider here: is writing evolving? And is there a danger of Australian writers losing their distinctive voice, asks writer and editor Sophie Cunningham?
Overland
Writers can’t write for free forever
The rise of Australia’s literary journal blogs as intellectual spaces is a great thing. But with no money in blogging, can an effective long term model be found to sustain them? asks Jessica Au.
Overland branded biased by Jewish academics
Australian Jewish academics are trying to intimidate one of the country’s leading literary journals.
Guy Rundle: Windschuttle screams blue murder over Quadrant funding cut
Quadrant has had its Australia Council Grant cut by $15,000 and is screaming blue murder and about the fix being in, because every left wing magazine –- Overland, Meanjin(!), Australian Book Review (!!) — has seen its funding maintained or bumped up.
Quadrant blames political decision for funding cut
Conservative magazine Quadrant is accusing the Australia Council of a “patently political decision” in cutting its funding from $50,000 to $30,000, thus threatening its literary content. But was it politics that caused the cut?
Six ideas from the 2020 summit
…that will be implemented to reinvigorate the nation…
