Voiceworks Magazine

PRIZE HIGHLIGHT // It's day 5 of the 2026 Voiceworks Subscriberthon and there's still plenty of time left to join the prize draw... subscribe before May 25 and you could win a free six-month digital subscription to @australianbookreview (including full digital archive access) or a one-year print subscription to @westerly.mag ❣️ Here is your chance to get some of the very best in Australian writing into your hands...! Full details @ link in bio.

PRIZE SPOTLIGHT // Enter the Voiceworks Subscriberthon and you could win a free print subscription to @overlandlitmag — Australia's oldest radical litmag — or @griffithreview , a literary magazine of themed critical and creative writing 📖 Subscribe (or gift a subscription) by May 25 to be in the running! Full details @ link in bio.

Voiceworks will be tabling at the Melbourne Art Book Fair this weekend! Swing by between 10am and 5pm, Fri–Sun, to say hi. You could even bring a friend along – as the Subscriberthon continues – perhaps someone who likes raffle prizes: book packs from illustrious publishers, subscriptions to leading literary journals, bookshop vouchers.... 🧐 We will also be at @softstir 's Soft Listening event this Thursday (slide 2)! At which @zadiekmccracken will read from their essay, 'Temporomandibular', forthcoming in Voiceworks #137: Gutter 📜📣 #MelbourneArtBookFair #NGV @NGVMelbourne Melbourne Art Book Fair is presented as part of Melbourne Design Week, an initiative of the Victorian Government

From today for the next two weeks (May 11-25), every new or renewed Voiceworks subscription puts you in the running to win an awesome prize!! We've got a whole bunch on offer for readers and writers of all ages — & it all goes to support Australia's premiere youth literary magazine ❤️‍🔥 Full details @ link in bio

We're introducing a Voiceworks student subscription :) We recently increased the price of an annual Voiceworks print subscription to $80, in order to keep up with funding pressures and rising print costs, and to allow for a raise in contributor fees. Still, times are difficult and it's crucial to us that Voiceworks remains as accessible as possible—especially for young people, who fill the pages of each issue. We have therefore decided to introduce a new reduced student/concession rate, along with a new institutional rate, as follows: — Student/concession: $60 — Standard: $80 — Institutional: $100 An annual subscription covers three print and digital issues of Voiceworks, all full of the best new writing and art from young Australians. Keen to subscribe? The 2026 Voiceworks subscriberthon kicks off next Monday with fabulous prizes up for grabs (and a Voiceworks trip to the Melbourne Art Book Fair) 📚 Photo by Claire Summerville.

Start spreading the news: there's an extra week to submit to Voiceworks #138, 'Jock'!! The revised dates are: 🏈Written work: Sun 3 May 🏈Art, comics and comics pitches: Sun 10 May Get crackin'! 🏏 Slide 1 is a detail from a photo by Luke Godby, published in Issue 20, Autumn 1995. Slide 2 is a detail from a photo by Bec Carey, published in Issue 18, Spring 1994.

Have you seen this bird perched on a noticeboard near you? It's because it is currently in its submission season, which, for the Voiceworks Cockatoo, occurs three times a year (it used to be four, but this has sadly decreased due to climate change). Go to the link in our bio to send us your work!! Written subs close this Sunday - art & comics on Sunday 3 May... (Cockatoo illustrated by Abi Quin <3)

Sports! So sang the Swedish post-punk band Viagra Boys on their 2018 single, 'Sports'. In 2026, as the lesbians turn to social basketball and hockey players pash on the television sets, not just of the gays, but of the gays' straight friends and parents, their message seems more prescient than ever. It is in this spirit that we announce: Voiceworks #138, 'Jock' is open for submissions!! ⚽Written work due Sun 26 April ⚽Art, comics and comic pitches due Sun 3 May We can't wait to read your work. Link to submit in bio 🏆🏉🏋️‍♀️

Here is your reminder that @voiceworksmag #136 'Quits!' is out now in print & digital formats! And it's beautiful! Between these graceful front and back covers – by @cordialcanvases – you'll find a trove of new fiction, nonfiction, art, poetry and comics. Perfect April reading... 📖 And for subscribers: after some back and forth with the postal service, your issues are officially on their way. 🛑 Link in our bio

Meet the artist: Voiceworks Magazine @Voiceworksmag Voiceworks is a national literary journal publishing new writing and art by young Australians. Our table would include prints, stickers, and issues of the mag. ☀️ Strange Folds Zine Fair ⏱️ 10AM - 3PM 🗓️ Saturday 11th April 🍓 Wollongong Town Hall ✂️ Free entry + zine making

Photos from the Quits! launch - courtesy of the wonderful @salvoswineglass 💖 Thanks again to our readers, Josie, Harrison, Paula and Frankie - to Liv for performing - to Glenda for AUSLAN interpreting - and to everyone who's picked up a copy of the mag!! And if you haven't - why wait?? It's on our website, and at a stockist near you ✨️✨️✨️ (Slide 10 is Paula accepting the inaugural Kat Muscat Award!! What a star)

A huge congratulations to Paula Campos, inaugural winner of the Kat Muscat Award for 'Palm trees, piercings and a more lowkey, chill place to live' <3 Each year, the Kat Muscat Award will be given to a @voiceworksmag contributor whose work best describes Kat Muscat's personal mantra of defiance, feminism and empathy. Paula Campos's short story was published in Voiceworks 136 'Quits!' (out now!) and selected by Voiceworks Editor Joel Keith. — Paula Campos studies English and Creative Writing at UNSW but does the hour-long commute back to Western Sydney every time. Her almost name was Diva. Paula says: "I was in my bedroom, cooling down from a run, when I started writing Palm trees, piercings and a more lowkey, chill place to live'. I drew on my experiences growing up in Western Sydney and my way of thinking and speaking in Tetum, English and Portuguese. I didn't think of an audience, I didn't think I'd ever publish it. So winning the Kat Muscat Award for 'Palm trees', my first story published in print, has felt so shocking and a bit unbelievable! Yet I'm hugely inspired by this award to keep writing subversively, to keep writing what hasn't been written."