Voiceworks 'Loaf' has risen!

Voiceworks Issue #133 ‘Loaf’ is fresh outta the oven and it’s baked to perfection. In our Summer edition, our contributors idle, amble, laze and lounge. They do as Whitman did: ‘I lean and loafe at my ease of observing a spear of summer grass’. The issue is whipped together with delicious cover art by textile artist Hannah Hall and scrumptious illustrations by Sharyn Sale.

In Loaf, a girl enters a toxic relationship with her sourdough starter in Ella Wenke’s Bread and Body, and a family talks and does not talk about class in an apartment in Catherine Zhou’s short story Opulence.

Samuel O’Neil confronts Palestinian displacement in his poem Baba’s Keys, which is composed of real estate listings in Gaza. Luci Whitelake muses on the haunting nature of parfumerie with eerie couplets in her poem Spillage. Tali Lum Wan examines their Christian upbringing and their relationship with their father, a baker, braiding lyrical memoir and explorative prose on the role of bread in the Bible.

Hear Voiceworks alumni Hasib Hourani and Svetlana Sterlin talk about their new poetry collections, and whip up Lilli Hutchinson’s delicious fig leaf and cardamom babka recipe for a theme-appropriate snack while you read the issue.

Congrats to all our contributors and thank you to all our readers and subscribers. We hope you enjoy tucking in to Loaf!