Teachers and educators
Competitions
Inspire your students with one of our competitions for secondary school-aged children.
Little Stories Big Ideas is a flash fiction prize for writers aged 12-18, running twice a year. Winners will be chosen from two categories: Years 7—9, and Year 10—12.
The Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers is a developmental prize presented in partnership with Hachette Australia. Writers aged 12-18 submit work in the categories of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, with one winner per category.
Express Media has a long history of collaborating with secondary and tertiary educators to deliver learning opportunities for students around Australia.
If you’re a teacher, there are many ways we can connect and offer resources to help young writers build skills, find their voice, and get published.
Schools Membership
As well as offering individual memberships for young writers, we also have a Schools Membership package, which includes a print + digital subscription to Voiceworks, a quarterly schools newsletter full of the latest writing opportunities for students, and regular teachers’ resource booklets for just $100 a year. You can purchase it here, or email us at info@expressmedia.org.au if you need a purchase order or invoice.
Voiceworks in the classroom
Express Media is the publisher of Voiceworks - Australia’s premier youth literary journal publishing new work from writers and artists under 25. It comes out in print and digital three times a year, and features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, illustration, photography & more!
Those with a Schools Membership will receive each issue in print and digital formats, as well as a digital teachers’ resource booklet to help guide exercises and conversations using the magazine’s contents and to meet curriculum learning outcomes.
