Voiceworks

The taste of mangoes... the swaying of palm trees... the logging of native bird habitat to build defence housing... yep, there's no mistaking it: Voiceworks has come to sunny Darwin!! (The hometown of our very own editor...)

We will be tabling at Dog-Eared Darwin Print Fair this weekend! Along with friends from near and far. Come say hi 💖

What's that chicken reading? Why, it's only the latest issue of Voiceworks: 'Gutter'! Perhaps she got it in the mail, or at the library, or from one of our wonderful stockists – Chicky Institute, for instance, or the New International Chookshop.

One thing's for sure: she knows submissions are open for Voiceworks #139, 'Late', and that the best way to know what kind of writing to send (she has begun to experiment with poetic forms – a villanegg, a hento) is to read the mag!!

We can only imagine that once she is finished, she will visit the Voiceworks website and submit – sometime before the 16th of August, or the 23rd if she plans to send us artwork or comics.

Here it is: 's gorgeous cover!!

If you think it looks good here, you've just Gutter see it in person: tonight, at ! Doors at 6:30, readings from 7 ✨️

Here they are: the contributors to Voiceworks #137: Gutter!!! What a lineup...

You can read all their lovely pieces THIS FRIDAY when the issue launches at Northcote!! Doors from 6:30, readings from 7 – walk-ins only – just rock up ~

(Or if you can't make the launch, subscribe this week and it will come in the mail

Issue 1 of Voiceworks Strips, hot *on* the (Glom) presses!! She has that riso glow ...

Coming to a Voiceworks launch near you! 7pm next Friday, at Northcote

(Thanks to our contributors .rankie.c, , .casheugh and – editors , and , who also served as designer – and printers 💖)

Our launch next Friday won't just be your first chance to lay your hands on our new print issue... you will also get to read the inaugural issue of Voiceworks Strips: our new standalone section of serialised comics by Frankie Carroll (.rankie.c), Emily Sherlock, Sophie Wishart and Frances Gentile ( – whose work appears on the cover)!!

The issue was edited by our comics team, Sharyn Sale (), Stella Theocharides () and Eina Tubadeza () – designed by Stella – and printed by the riso wizards at , on four lovely paper colours. It will appear as an insert in every issue of #137: Gutter ~

We love comix ✨️

Voiceworks is currently accepting applications to join our volunteer editorial committee!

We are looking for editors of ✒poetry✒ and 🎨comics🎨 for the print mag, as well as 💾online💾 editors, to help us as we revamp and relaunch Voiceworks Online.

'Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death,' Mavis Gallant wrote; 'The only question worth asking about a story - or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall - is, "is it dead or alive?"' We're looking for editors who are good at feeling for a piece's pulse - and, in the unlikely event of an emergency, performing CPR.

Applications close Sun 7 June: https://www.voiceworksmag.com.au/all/2026/5/19/apply-to-join

(The best way to get familiar with Voiceworks is to subscribe! And the best time to subscribe is by 25 May, while our Subscriberthon continues: https://www.expressmedia.org.au/store/voiceworks-subscriptions)