Voiceworks ‘Bend’ Launch

Neha De Alwis is a Sri Lankan-Australian writing on unceded Wurudjeri Country. Their work has been published in Kill Your Darlings, Nowhere Girl Collective, Myriad Magazine, Ricepaper Magazine, and Cordite. They hate writing and like drawing bunny rabbits.

Blue Jordan is a Melbourne-based emerging writer who has published with Voiceworks and Farrago, and has worked with Cipta Theatre Company, a Melbourne University student theatre group, to stage one of her original playscripts. Her passions lie in magical realism, using otherworldly elements to explore ideas about our world from unique perspectives. She is currently in her second year of university, studying English and Theatre studies in hopes of turning her passion for creative writing into something along the lines of a career.

Joel Keith 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 Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2024. She is the editor of Voiceworks.

Rachel Newbound is a student and writer living in Melbourne, Australia. She has previously been published in Baby Teeth Journal and Voiceworks.

Bridie Noonan is a writer, actor, and dramaturg, living and working on unceded Wurundjeri country. She is interested in writing about illness, and intimacy.