Voiceworks is a national quarterly print magazine based in Melbourne, Victoria, featuring work by Australian writers and artists under the age of 25.
Its newsletter Voiceworks was launched by the then prime minister, Bob Hawke and music journalist Molly Meldrum in 1985 for International Youth Year, to promote the organisation's program of workshops.
[citation needed] The magazine, published by Express Media, is produced by the editor together with a designer, an intern and a volunteer editorial committee (EdComm), all of whom are also under the age of 25.
[5] This committee assists the editor in reading submissions, editing content, proofreading, running launches, and writing feedback for all contributors.
[citation needed] Express Media's operations and projects are financed by grants from the Federal and state government arts funding bodies Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria and from the private philanthropic fund Copyright Agency Ltd.[citation needed] The writer John Marsden was until his death in December 2024 Express Media's patron,[6] and in the past provided the prize money for the John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers (renamed Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers in 2020)[7] as well as operational funding.