People
Voiceworks Editor
Joel Keith (22) is a writer, editor and musician living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Their work has appeared in Overland, Island, Cordite and the Suburban Review, and is forthcoming from the Sydney Review of Books. She placed third in the 2024 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Henry James: “She’s nobody; she’s the dreariest of frumps; she’s perfectly third-rate.”
Voiceworks Designer
Alex Stevenson is a multidisciplinary designer with seven years of experience working across digital, print, content, and product. She has collaborated with cultural institutions, scientific researchers, music festivals and more, to craft rich narratives and experiences through design. In 2020, she founded Soft Stir, an independent arts publication, to platform the critical, reflective, and experimental work of diverse, emerging Australian creatives.
Editorial Committee
Viv Baker (23) is a writer and editor living and working on the unceded sovereign lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. Frequently spotted in the ocean/at the dyke bar/folding laundry.
Elizabeth Bourke (24) is a young writer living on unceded Dharawal land. She was the 2025 recipient of the Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers for her unpublished manuscript Solace. Her writing can be found in the 2023 Fremantle Press YA anthology An Unexpected Party, Island, Voiceworks and elsewhere. She was a finalist in the 2023 The Age/Sydney Morning Herald Young Essayist Prize. When she’s not writing, she enjoys snorkelling and trying to befriend octopi. You can find her on Instagram @elizabethbourkewriter.
Laura Charlton (24) writes, edits, and works on Wurundjeri Country. Her writing can be found online, in print, and onstage. She placed second in the 2024 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. You can find her latest work at lauracharlton.com.
Maya Crombie (19) is a zinester and fiction writer studying Creative Writing and German at the University of Melbourne. On Instagram @plastikcrystal.
Anastasia Dale (23) is a writer who enjoys mixing, folding, and combining forms—poetry, prose, plays, and so on. She enjoys creating underground forms of entertainment and edification. None of us are free until Palestine is free.
Eartha Davis (20, she/her) is a woman of Ngāpuhi and Celtic heritage living on Wurundjeri land. She is the winner of the AAWP/Express Media Sudden Writing Prize and a 2025 Varuna Residency Fellow. Her debut poetry collection, màthair beinn, is forthcoming with Vagabond Press.
Aries M. Gacutan (23) is a poet and digital creator working on the traditional lands of the Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation. They also do a bunch of other artsy things for money. They often write about space/place, migrant identity and digital ephemerality. In 2024, they were a recipient of the Emerging Poets Residency in 2024 with Red Room Poetry, and currently facilitate Toolkits: Digital Storytelling with Express Media. Read about their dastardly poetic escapades at thearieszone.neocities.org.
Isabel Greenslade (23) writes, paints and studies on unceded Wurundjeri country. Her work has appeared/is forthcoming in Island, Pure Slush and Voiceworks, and in 2024 she won the Boroondara Literary Awards open short story prize. Often seen wearing stripes and eating hot cross buns year-round.
Nadia Lazich Harari (24) writes and edits under a gumtree on unceded Wurundjeri Country. They may be considered a: daydreamer, ratbag, lurker, lover. It just depends on who you ask.
Sonal Kamble (22) is a writer based on unceded Dharug land. She enjoys telling stories about vegetables, dreams, and childhood.
Saanjana Kapoor (23) is a part-time writer and full-time Bollywood fanatic. Her writing has been published in Island, Cordite, the Suburban Review, Meanjin, and more.
Bronte Lemaire (22) is a multidisciplinary writer and theatre maker living on Wurundjeri land. She debuted her first full-length play Medusa with Four Letter Word Theatre in 2025. Her writing has also been published in Voiceworks, the Dialog, Farrago and the Blue Daisies Journal. She is currently finishing her Honours in creative writing investigating the connection between violent imagery and queer desire.
Scout Manuel (22) is a poet and editor. They are currently undertaking Honours at the University of Melbourne, investigating the links between genre fantasy and postcolonialism, but their free time is spent on video games, coffee and crosswords.
Aeva Milos (23) is a writer working on unceded Wurundjeri Woi Wurring land. She is the creator and editor of Dogstar, a small indie publication press. Her writing has been featured in Going Down Swinging, Roundtable Readings, Layabout Magazine and Gems Zine. She is a Voiceworks Online editor and a 2023 Toolkits participant. She has been a part-time bookseller for the past four years.
EJ Murry (21) is a writer and editor. They are a settler currently living on stolen Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. Their work has been published in the Suburban Review and Meniscus. At Voiceworks, they edit poetry.
SD Munawara (21) is a writer, reader, and lover of short stories. Her fiction has appeared in Love & Literature and Verandah, and has been shortlisted for the 2024 Neilma Sidney Prize.
Chay Newman (23) is a writer, editor, and aspiring indie publisher whose work has appeared in a handful of anthologies and literary journals. Their work centres on neurodivergence and defying misconceptions about disability through speculative and fantastical fiction. Chay is the creator of Cyanica—a zine dedicated to publishing work by neurodivergent, disabled, and chronically ill artists, to foster diversity within the arts sector. When not in the trenches of their own existentialism, they can be found making up words like ‘illucid’, ‘gospelic’, and ‘transienity’, while overusing commas because it feels more ‘poetic’. Find Chay online at cyani.ca.
Eve Tramacchi O’Keeffe (19) writes, learns, and works with plants on unceded Wurundjeri Woiwurrung country.
Seb Petroni (23) is a fiction editor for Voiceworks magazine. Editing, reading, writing, and educating in Brisbane, Queensland.
Sharyn Sale (20) is an artist, writer, and editor living on Yugambeh country. She is a Creative Writing and Literary Studies student who enjoys vampires, comics, and long walks through the cemetery. You can find them on Instagram at @junkyard1982.
Faye Tang (21) is a writer on Cameraygal land. She’s a desperate language learner and is probably doing grammar exercises right now. She will soon be writing an Honours thesis on two great loves of hers: Christa Wolf and Elif Batuman, and their post-Cold War autofiction.
Adela Teubner (22) is a writer, editor, and musician practising on unceded Kaurna Yerta. Her work has been published in Little White Lies, Senses of Cinema, and Polyester Zine, and she was a 2024 Toolkits: Non-Fiction participant. She can be found: watching the sunlight glisten on her local creek, listening to Big Thief, communing with the superb fairywrens, eating smoked cheddar, defending the Oxford comma, and wearing impractical vintage coats to the supermarket. Find her on Instagram a little too often at @adelateubner.
Stella Theocharides (23) is a cartoonist and farmer. Their work has been published in Meanjin & the Suburban Review, and they were a 2024 Hot Desk Fellow. They’ve been editing poetry & comics for Voiceworks since 2021! Find them (occasionally) on Instagram, @stheocharides_.
Eina Nicole Tubadeza (21) is a Filipino queer writer born in the South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. She currently studies a Bachelor of Creative Writing at RMIT. At the moment, she practices fiction, comic-making, and creative non-fiction. She is in love with everything art, comics, film and TV show related. Most importantly, she is a chronic cat lover.