Voiceworks Online is now open for submissions to 'Border'!

Theme: Border

Did you dream of a butterfly last night, or is a butterfly now dreaming of you? The threshold of reality is flimsy. The average person spends a third of their lifetime on the other side of consciousness, over an evasive and eventually impenetrable border. One day soon, perhaps, the consciousness you know and love will dematerialise into binary code. You can tell when it approaches, when daylight dims into dusk, and you peer at every face you pass in the DMZ. When did they drive the borders into your body/ies? In the semi-darkness with no one watching, your id and superego bleed into each other. You begin to dissolve the margins, close the pagebreaks, acting with mounting zeal: Tear down this (fire)wall!

~Thanks to EdCommers Faye Tang and Aries Gacutan for the blurb~

Voiceworks Online 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 Australian writers and artists. However, international students are excepted from this.

Voiceworks only considers previously unpublished work (which includes personal websites and blogs). We accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere.

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.

We are only able to publish writers and artists who are under the age of 25 (that is, 24 and under) at the time of submission.

We only accept work by people living in Australia (including international students) or by Australians living overseas.

We only consider previously unpublished work.

Please send no more than two submissions at a time.

Word limits are as follows (these may or may not be strictly applicable to experimental pieces; consider them guides):

Fiction and nonfiction: no more than 3000 words

Poetry: no more than 100 lines

Comics: no more than 10 pages

Deadlines

All submissions due Sunday 24 August, 11:59PM AEDT

Rates of pay

$100-$150, depending on length and format

You’ll find further details by following the link below. Please read the information carefully and contact Voiceworks Editor Joel Keith if you have any questions or concerns. Alrighty then, it’s time to submit!