Express Media

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Express Media creates quality literary arts and media opportunities for young and emerging artists. It's an Australian literary youth arts organisation that presents an annual program of special events, workshops, exhibitions and artistic projects throughout the year. The flagship project is Voiceworks magazine. Each year Express Media partners with the Victorian Writers' Centre to present the Emerging Writers' Festival. The John Marsden Award, a fiction prize for young Australian writers founded by our patron, is presented every year and winners are published in the December Voiceworks.

Voiceworks is a national, quarterly magazine that features exciting new writing by Australian young writers. It is a unique opportunity for young writers and artists (under 25) to publish their poetry, short stories, articles and comics, illustrations, drawings and photos more

[edit] Projects

Express Media is responsible for the following community development projects:

- The John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers. Ran for its second year in 2006. A total Prize pool of $3500 is offered across four catagories.
- Buzzcuts, an annual arts review project, presented in conjunction with Melbourne Fringe, 3RRR, Beat Magazine and RMIT.
- Mentorships. Express Media's mentorship programme has included the Australian writers: Christos Tsiolkas, Linda Jaivin, Adam Ford, Anna Krien, Lally Katz and Shalini Akhil.
- An Australia-wide workshop programme, covering zine production, media laws and numerous other areas where Express Media has determined there to be a need.
- Express Media also releases occasional once-off self-published projects like Inncommunicado and Tiny Epics.

[edit] History

Express Media was founded in 1983; the International Year of Youth. In 2006, Victorian Arts Minister Mary Delahunty described Express Media as one of the "bedrock" organisations of the arts.