In this new column, members of the Voiceworks Editorial Committee will be highlighting creative roles, processes and communities within the publishing industry and beyond that are less discussed in traditional publishing education. For our first piece in this series, Adalya Nash Hussein looks at platforms focused on publishing and developing writers of colour.
Read MoreThe Romans defeated us but we were reborn: in cathedrals and Romantic poetry, in Bauhaus and Lestat, in teenagers heavy with black lipstick and eyeliner. If you made potions in the sandpit, grated acorns against concrete, pried itchybombs for their fluff, you may be one of us.
Read MoreWhile those with money are given the time to deal with the pain of loss—a trauma that has been observed and recorded since as long as people could record—the poor are expected to mourn with their teeth bared, fending off vultures with hearts haemorrhaging.
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Read MoreThe queerest re-imagining of Frankenstein yet.
Read MoreHe said, think about it like this. Do fish ever touch? I mean, consciously.
Read MoreOur bodies give themselves away, as plain as the noses on our faces. Or the Tweets we write after midnight.
Read Moreberries inside a utensil tray
crater for neptune rising
revived in limbed exhaustion
In honour of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s seminal Gothic horror tale Frankenstein, we explore the hybrid and monstrous nature of digital media with Frankenletter—five days of Frankenstein-themed writing.
Read MoreIs it terrestrial? It slopes across the screen, sensory and sniffing needles darting around the LED display. In its wake, a dancing thick goo obstructing.
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