Read online — Voiceworks

This special video event will feature readings from Maddison Brake, Anya Doan, Darlene Silva Soberano and Mason Wood, a speech from editor Adalya Nash Hussein, and introductions from EdCommers Anita Solak, Maddison Brake and LinLi Wan.

NormalVoiceworks Editor4 November 2020Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Launch

Voiceworks Online Digital Writing Jam

NormalVoiceworks EdComm8 September 2020Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

Voiceworks 'Butter' Ready to Spread

In this literary-event cooking-show hybrid, you will be treated to a four course menu of workfrom writers Michelle Wang, Olivia Shenken, Yanni Jiang and Eric Jiang.

NormalVoiceworks Editor28 July 2020Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Launch

Voiceworks at Freeplay and Emerging Writers Festival 2020

Voiceworks have been lucky across our sweet young life to collaborate with lots of wonderful festivals and organisations to produce exciting and weird events that we couldn’t do alone. Here’s a round up of events we had in June collaborating with long-time favs EWF and our new pals at Freeplay!

NormalVoiceworks Editor1 July 2020Launch, poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, comic

Voiceworks is now open for submissions to issue 120 'Divine'!

The Holy Rosary, as it is prayed today, requires for the Hail Mary to be prayed 53 times. And on streets all over the world in the first week of June, people marched many kilometres chanting, NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE over and over. And Carly Rae Jepsen sings the word, ‘really’ 67 times in her E•MO•TION lead single, ‘I Really Like You’.

NormalVoiceworks19 June 2020

Queering Out of Religion

In one of my earliest memories I am sitting on the carpet of the church community room next to my baby sister. She is in a laced baptism dress, hair slick with anointing oil. There’s a photo framed of us like this together, but I remember being in that body, inside that photo too.

NormalLauren Shelley19 June 2020Nonfiction, Fresh Air

Exercise Ball

This is my Nana’s exercise ball. / In my memory it was yellow, but my Nana said it was blue.

NormalDanielle Goder18 June 2020Nonfiction, Fresh Air

Shifting Baseline Syndrome

You bleat out a long 'baa'. After a while, the baa-ing throbs in your ears. You have no headphones, so you try to synthesise some music.

NormalZowie Douglas-Kinghorn17 June 2020Nonfiction, Fresh Air

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There are no distractions from getting things done.

There are no excuses for not getting things done.

NormalEvie Hilliar16 June 2020Comic, Fiction, Fresh Air

Of Water and Womb

You’re both back at Mum's tonight. You like to come up and keep the house company—warm its chairs, eat off its plates, open and close its doors.

NormalLauren Ironmonger15 June 2020Fiction, Fresh Air

Voiceworks 'As If!' Launches in Animal Crossing

This special Animal Crossing event features readings from Angus McDonald, Donnalyn Xu, Sarah Fegan and Lujayn Hourani, and speeches from outgoing editor Mira Schlosberg and outgoing designer Michael Sun.

NormalVoiceworks Editor12 May 2020Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Launch

Voiceworks is now open for submissions to issue 119 Butter!

A COW and a single ALMOND stand behind a trestle table. They await judgement. A BUTTER KNIFE stands before them with the manic energy of an early afternoon cooking show host.

NormalVoiceworks27 February 2020

The Body That Listens

Language as sign system may well belong to the mind, but language as pure sound belongs to the body. It burrows under the skin, seeding amongst sinew, fat and muscle; sine waves converted into affect by way of the flesh.

NormalLauren Ironmonger26 February 2020Nonfiction