Submission Guidelines
Please make sure you read the following guidelines closely. If you’re unsure about any of the guidelines, please contact Voiceworks editor Joel Keith at editor@expressmedia.org.au.
We are only able to publish work by writers and artists who are under twenty-five at the time of submission. Please also keep in mind that because of our funding arrangements, we are only able to publish writers living in Australia or Australian writers living overseas.
We only consider previously unpublished work. (That means, alas, nothing published on Substack, Instagram, blogs and so on). We accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere.
We do not accept work created with generative AI, in whole or in part.
If your submission is unsuccessful, we will notify you as soon as we can and then provide you with detailed feedback a little later. Feedback is written by a small group of volunteers and we receive a lot of submissions, so we appreciate your patience. If you think something’s gone wrong, or you haven’t heard from us three months after the submission deadline, please get in touch.
Visual Art and Comics Guidelines
Visual art submissions include comics, illustrations, drawings, graphics, etc. We recommend that you pitch your comics before sending them to us. For advice on how to construct your pitch, check out our handy guide here. We print in duotone (two colours) and our page dimensions are 170 x 245 mm (176 x 251 mm, including 3mm bleed). Please supply your images in greyscale, at actual size and 300dpi. Please name your files—strings of numbers and letters are easily confused with other submissions.
Please send no more than three artworks or comics.
Deadline: Sunday 18 January 11:59PM AEST
Theme: Gutter
Blurb by EdCommers Sharyn Sale, Stella Theocharides and Eina Tubadeza.
Remember, you don't have to stick to the theme. Most of all, we want good work!
Rates of Pay
$120 for single-page art and comics
$180 for multi-page comics or suites of art
Terms of Publication
Express Media publishes work in Voiceworks on a non-exclusive, irrevocable and royalty-free basis. We require writers who will be published in Voiceworks to sign a licence deed granting us permission to publish work in the printed Voiceworks magazine, on the Express Media and Voiceworks websites, and for use in promoting our magazine. Writers retain copyright of their work and are free to use in whatever way they’d like in the future. Please only submit your work if you are satisfied with these terms. For more information about this, please contact us.
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To get a better idea of what kind of work we publish in the magazine, and to help us continue to support young writers, you can subscribe* to Voiceworks here.
*Choosing not to subscribe will not impact your submission.