Portrait is Ready For Showing
Portrait x Landscape
Voiceworks issue #126, Portrait, has launched!
Inside #126 Portrait you’ll find cli fi by Tooba Farooqui, poetry about ant colonies by comedian Miso Bell, comics about travelling bears by Drowsy, an epic listicle titled ‘How to Take a Tasteful Nude’ by Mason Wood, and more.
In addition to Portrait, you’ll find the winners of the ABC’s The Books That Made Us youth fiction prize in a special glossy foldout, Landscape. Get your mits on a copy at our store here.
Readings
Portrait was a very special launch. Due to the pandemic, we weren’t able to hold physical launches for issues #123 ‘Pickle’, #124 ‘Saddle’ or #125 ‘Spectre’, so we invited artists from these issues to present live readings at the launch of ‘Portrait’.
Listen to audio recordings from our wonderful contributors, Derek Chan, Denice Dabu, Soph Fitzgerald, Miso Bell, Mason Wood and Drowsy below, and do consider picking up one of these fabulous back issues (or three!) at our store.
Derek Chan: ‘Where There’s Water’
Derek Chan (23) is a Melbourne-based writer soon-to-be graduated from Monash University. He has been published in journals such as Meanjin, Cordite Poetry Review and Verge.
Find ‘Where There’s Water’ in Voiceworks #123, ‘Pickle’, here.
Denice Dabu: ‘A New Kind of Love, A New Kind of Eating’
Denice Dabu (22) likes mechanical keyboards, farming simulators and all things tea as long as she is sitting beneath a cozy blanket.
Find ‘A New Kind of Love, a New Kind of Eating’ in Voiceworks #124, ‘Saddle’, here.
Miso Bell: ‘Slip’, ‘And People Howling for their Dogs’
Mason Wood (24) lives in Naarm. He works for Going Down Swinging and hasn’t called his mum in weeks (call your mum, Mason!)
Find ‘How to Take a Tasteful Nude’ in Voiceworks #126, ‘Portrait’, here.
Drowsy: ‘Stinky Little Bear’
Drowsy (20) is studying history and likes to make pictures with paper, string and seashells.
Find ‘Stinky Little Bear’ in Voiceworks #126, ‘Portrait’, here.
Portrait, in situ
Landscape (+ Portrait of the Artist as a Young Frog)
Contributors:
PORTRAIT:
Amira Akhtar
Amy Ge
Az Cosgrove
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Caroline Zijing
Drowsy
Erin Moss
Faye Jarrett
Grace Clark
Indigo Walter
Jess Zanoni
Laura Charlton
Lynley Bidlake
M.G. Ryan
Madi Marston
Mason Wood
Miso Bell
Niamh Gallagher
Nina Hughes
Rômy McCoy
Sage Friedrichs
Soph Fitzgerald
Stephanie Nestor
Theo Ferris
Tom Lewis
Tooba Farooqui
Tyberius Larking
Victoria Zhou
Congratulations to all our contributors, and a big thank you to all our readers and subscribers. We can’t wait to launch the next issue with you!
LANDSCAPE:
Charlotte Richards
Finnan Hanney
Grace Brown
Layla O’Callaghan
Lillian Hewitt-Scholtes
Maika Shiine James
Mason Johns
Sarah Cassidy
Tiffanie S.H.