Voiceworks Online—'Border' Submissions
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About
Voiceworks Online is currently seeking experimental, digital-based writing and comics. If you make work that can’t be printed on the page, this is your time to shine! This includes but is not limited to:
- Interactive fiction
- Hypertext writing
- Code poetry
- Bots and generative text works
- Writing with sound or video elements
- Full-colour comics or comics with animated elements
Each selected piece goes through a collaborative editing process, and individualised feedback is provided for all unsuccessful written submissions. All published contributors are paid for their work.
What we’re looking for
The best way to get a sense of the kinds of work we publish is to read the work on our website! You can also check out our handy digital writing guide for lots of tips on what we like and how to get started if you’re new to digital writing. If you aren’t sure if what you’re working on is the right fit for us, or if you want some guidance developing an idea, please feel free to send us a pitch. You can find our guides to pitching here.
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Voiceworks only considers previously unpublished work (which includes personal websites and blogs).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!