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Love Poetry Hate Racism anthology callout for submissions Budding poets!
The Love Poetry Hate Racism anthology is calling for submissions of poetry, photographs and visual art from all over the globe!
LPHR is an annual international poetry... >> read more |
youthcentral callout for Roving Reporters Budding journalists!
Express Media friends youthcentral (www.youthcentral.vic.gov.au) are calling for their next team of Roving Reporters. Participants will be trained in web journalism and... >> read more |
Voiceworks #73 Launch event date: Thursday Jun 26th, 2008 | From Voiceworks #61 PLAYGROUND | The launch of issue 73 - Carnivale - will be held on Thursday 26 June at The Glasshouse in Collingwood (51 Gipps Street), there will be readings and mingling aplenty. Further details to... >> read more |
Voiceworks is ALWAYS accepting submissions, about ANYTHING! Writers and artists!
It has been brought to our attention recently that some of you feel like you can only send your work at a certain time, in a certain style, about a certain subject. We... >> read more |
Call for non-fiction: Voiceworks #74 - INNUENDO Calling all non-fiction writers!!
Voiceworks magazine is seeking non-fiction pitches for issue #74, INNUENDO.
Pitch deadline: Sunday 15 June
We will respond to pitches within a week,... >> read more |
Call for columnists: Voiceworks #74 - INNUENDO Calling all non-fiction writers!
Voiceworks magazine is seeking columnist applications for #74, the INNUENDO issue (deadline Sunday 6 July 2008). See below for details.
Until recently,... >> read more |
Enter Vibewire's Right Now competition ... wind up in Voiceworks! Right Now is a Vibewire project. It is a media/arts competition asking young people to reflect on human rights aimed at raising awareness about the Victorian Charter of Human Rights.
Right Now is... >> read more |
Upcoming Voiceworks themes! We have chosen themes for issues up to and beyond the history-writing 75th issue of Voiceworks. Let these ideas carry you into 2009 ...
And remember:
Voiceworks submissions... >> read more |
FEATURED WRITER: The Turtle Nets - Liam Pieper Emmett put down his bag, sighed, and lowered himself onto the bedspread. It was filthy, but then again, so was he. For the two days the train took to crawl from Delhi to Goa, he had been sweating... >> read more |
Eleven Rooms - Ramyana Reeves ‘What are you thinking?’
There are ten rooms in the house. I go into the room painted red that watches south and breathes heated dust into the hallway. There are tousled fabric hems bleached into... >> read more |
OPINION column: Games as Art, Art as Games - Daniel East All the contemporary arguments around video games – from censorship to product placement, from the social implications of violence to the psychosis of addiction – revolve around two basic questions:... >> read more |
FOOD column: The Great McPhee Debate - Gemma Considine Last Saturday night, as I sat in a friend’s inner-city courtyard and began to feel the effects of numerous Coopers Pale Ales sinking in, I turned to look at Sweeney McPhee.
McPhee had grown up a... >> read more |
Consummate Love - Ainslee Meredith Rotes of barbed-wire
pieced his skin together
until she got the call.
His mother for all they knew –
Mother Winter growing out
her black skirts, thrusting
stilts into frost-red hands.... >> read more |
Drums - Owen Kirkby The taut print is tight like a thrall ring,
a dull thrum of script; around the dumb
chatter of rain and roof, the lettered
wreck of thought. The falling
dents the stretched hours... >> read more |
Stranger of the Month CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Stranger of the Month is an amateur publishing project based on novel forms of distribution and collective creativity. A service for generating instructions for the... >> read more |
FILM COLUMN: Prime Time Paranoia by Timoth de Atholia If you found yourself jammed in a dark room with all the stars of prime-time television you’d better damn well keep your hands to yourself, because going for the grope would almost certainly entail... >> read more |
MEDIA COLUMN: Carbon Copy by Pat McGrath Subeditors around the world went into a bit of a spasm in August last year, following a minor yet very public quarrel between the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and Rupert Murdoch’s... >> read more |
After the Pilost Died and Before We Did Too by Wanyima Wighton There we all were in the jet, and it was going faster and faster and we couldn’t get any seatbelts on so we gave up on them, and I was hungry and truly wishing for a sausage roll or something else... >> read more |
Songs for Tenement Stairwells by Josephine Rowe I liked you.
You weren’t a tiptoer. On the contrary –
you went crashing down the sleazy corridor of life,
rattling doorknobs and
shouting obscene things through keyholes.
You fell... >> read more |
The Lighthouse by Kieran Bullock It was a beautiful neighbourhood, nestled at the base of a lush, tree-lined valley. The streets were clean, the grass was green, and the houses gleamed in the afternoon sunshine. All the houses had... >> read more |
Eel Farm by Fiona Wright To her, they never slithered –
rather a rustling, the stiff
texture of their mystery
still dark and truffled
on her tongue. They hung,
mummified limbs twisting
from the smokehouse... >> read more |
Theme blurb for Voiceworks # 73 - CARNIVALE When we choose a theme title, we have absolutely no idea what we mean by it. Carnivale!? All we could think of was: The Garden of Unearthly Delights; the US TV series; and somebody saying with a rare... >> read more |
Call for Beautifully Corporeal submissions – Voiceworks magazine! Beautifully Corporeal is an ongoing,
interactive-literature section driven by
YOU! The section is inspired by the
French Surrealist technique, called
Exquisite Corpse, of collaborating on... >> read more |
Call for new columnists - CARNIVALE #73 Calling all non-fiction writers,
Voiceworks magazine is seeking columnist applications for #73, the CARNIVALE issue (deadline Sunday 23rd March 2007). See below for details.
Until... >> read more |
Wanna proofread Voiceworks? If you're a burgeoning editor under 25 who wants to get some experience proofreading while getting a sneak preview of the upcoming issues of Voiceworks, we'd love to douse you in lollies and soft... >> read more |
Beautifully Corporeal #1 Geometry - Andrew Stapleton I cross these tracks to get to work and without fail the cat is there, sending me on a detour and making me late. My boss’s brow furrows when I wander into the office with glazed eyes and an... >> read more |
Beautifully Corporeal #2 Singularity - James Ross-Edwards The Man With A Fish’s Head sat alone, staring into his beer, his hands propping up his gills. He could barely hear the noise of the Queen of the Nile mid-feature, making someone a bit richer and... >> read more |
Beautifully Corporeal #3 Snatches in Transition - Amy Yang We got married in a room that was two by two metres with a window on the northern wall. There was a double bed, and a chair left behind by the previous inhabitants. On the first night, there was a... >> read more |
Beautifully Corporeal #4 Nothing - Felice Howden Bradley was the sort of guy who would take comprehensive notes from wild-life television programs in order to drop facts casually into conversation in the not-too-distant-future. Each new acquisition... >> read more |
Pearl - Nicola Trethowan Pearl
The first Pearl was not born. A miscarriage occurred in the second trimester.
Nevertheless, when Margaret conceived again two years after the initial tragedy the unborn child was referred... >> read more |
The Cool Cloth of Night - Ben Mylius Fletcher Street explodes on the night Melinda Starkey gives birth. At 8.43pm, it happens. Approximately 27 minutes after the sun goes down. This explosion is not normal. Fletcher Street, on the other... >> read more |
More than 200 - Mert Korkusuz Most had no idea.
Too busy grabbing boxes, jars and cans from the shelves. Tossing them into the trolley.
A home to get to. Children to feed.
But my wailing broke their thoughts. Captured their... >> read more |
Shapes - Louise Carter when we were testing the thickness of
the ideas we were fermenting, they grew
large and untidy and we trimmed them
down and moulded them into shapes
we could both appreciate. those days
moved... >> read more |
Astronauts - Geoff Lemon She traces the rim round the edge of her saucer
with one circumnavigatory finger.
The only sound in the small apartment
is the tikka-tikka-tikka of an 8 mil projector,
the tikka-tikka-tikka of a... >> read more |
The Desert - Liam Dacey Strong winds erode the dry, brown land,
And deadly rays of sun burn my skin.
As I struggle forward my body begins to ache.
The desert has captured me.
Hungry eagles fly overhead, waiting to eat... >> read more |
As for the world - Ella Loeffler As for the world
I am the lioness, head held high
in the dead of the night
I prowl the long yellow grass
ready to pounce my prey
As for the night
I am the darkness
slowly seeping... >> read more |
The Garbage Truck - Miranda Healy As the sun sank into the horizon
My feet drained out of the water
There was enough heat yet, to perform evaporation
O what a subtle art
The reddened sky above
Contained wispy clouds
And a... >> read more |
Voiceworks has a MySpace page!!! The Voiceworks robot has a MySpace page at last! We've finally capitulated to the realness of the cool kids ...
Check it out! I've posted some dubious blogs, a few friends have joined us, and... >> read more |
Get published in Voiceworks! "Thank you for publishing my poem in Voiceworks. You made me feel like a real writer not just another angst-ridden teenager.”
Damien, aged 16 Blackwood, SA
The contents of Voiceworks... >> read more |
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