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We only consider previously unpublished work.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 written by 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.
Poetry Guidelines
Poetry: send no more than three poems, each no more than 100 lines. We recommend reading our poetry guide here before sending us your work.
We encourage you to submit across genres, but please send us no more than four submissions in total (excluding visual art).
Please submit your work in a single Word document in 12pt Times New Roman (unless it is playing with font size, etc.).
Deadline: Sunday 4 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 writing!
Rates of Pay
$120 per published piece.
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.