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OVERLAND NOVEL SEARCH
Submissions now closed.
Overland is seeking an original full-length novel manuscript to publish as a special edition of the journal in 2009.
We have, however, received so many manuscripts that submissions are now closed, so that we can give adequate attention to the novels that have been sent. Further updates on the status of the project will be posted at a later date.
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[T]he Australian literary novel is being slowly abandoned by those publishers who operate according to the [commercial] model. Our biggest publishers will not publish a book which they don’t think can sell 4000 copies. […] Heaven help the first time novelist. It is harder than it has been in generations for a first-time literary novelist to be published in his country. Heaven help the second- or third-time novelist.
Malcolm Knox, ‘The case for “original” Australian fiction’, Overland 182, autumn 2006 |
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