Voiceworks 'Strike' has entered the ring!
Ding ding ding! Voiceworks Issue 131 Strike has entered the ring. This knockout issue features cover art by Ruby Dawson, photos by Clem McNabb and the punchiest writing and art from young people across the continent. We’ve printed this issue in the Palestinian flag colours—red, black, green and white—as a small gesture of solidarity with Palestine. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
In this issue our contributors rage against capitalism and colonialism. In Notes on Damp, Anastasia Dale takes us through a horrifyingly familiar tale of renting which is accompanied by an immersive soundscape. In Irish Ghazal, Scout Manuel uses the ghazal form to try and make sense of the cyclical violence of English imperialism.
‘Strike’ also looks at bodies as sites of struggle and liberation. Mel Bandara’s comic Colours of Pain and Christine Le’s artwork Pang Pang Pang! take a bold look at chronic pain. In Swimming on the Solstice, Theodore Harkin explores swimming as a practice of bodily connectedness as a trans person.
Dive into fiction about giving birth to demons and being followed by swarms of ants, and poems about lullabies and grieving in the backseat of your family car. And don’t miss out on Henry Tran’s winning story from our partnership with the Dymocks Beyond Words short story competition in 2023.
These photos from one of the Naarm Sunday rallies for Palestine are the bookends for Strike. We think they’re are a good way to start and end the issue—a reminder that magazines are nice, but the streets are where it happens. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
Photos by Clem McNabb.
Congrats to all our contributors and thank you to all our readers and subscribers. We hope you get a kick out of Strike!