The Thousands

Here’s an open secret: most under-25s can’t write for shit. Yes, it’s a rare thing indeed when you can judge the work of a writer in their early twenties purely on its merits. Most often, you’ll hear stuff like, "Well, they’re good… for a ˜Young Writer’" – the implication being that while the person’s work isn’t actually very good, hey, maybe they won’t be quite so shit once they grow up a little.

So here’s the thing: Voiceworks is a Melbourne-based magazine produced exclusively by under-25s, and recently, it’s gotten, like, pretty damn fine. As in, it stands up as a real magazine, produced by real writers, who just happen to be young.

Long story short, providing you’re still languishing in the wasteland of your early twenties, Voiceworks is precisely the kind of magazine you actually want to write for. And, because former editor Ryan Paine is jetting over here to lead a workshop which could tweak your slightly-below-par Kerouac knock-off ramblings into something pushing publishable, you might just scrape into an upcoming issue… only to find your work printed alongside a keenly-observed short story written by a twelve-year-old literary prodigy one year out of primary school.