BIG NEWS FROM THE VOID
voidspace live 2025 is go!
7-8 June 2025
@theatredeli
A whole weekend in the void!
Plus the Night Festival: a special online event for those who can't join in person
Pre-order now to help us make it happen
The void loves you! 🖤🖤🖤
thrilled to announce the launch today of VOIDSPACE PRESS.
that's right: the voidspace is going into print
we have our first book, which we aim to publish next year, but am open to reading more
send me your interactive poetry chapbooks and your cyoas for grown ups 🖤🖤🖤
what do we want? we want your interactive art. we want your interactive fiction. we want your interactive poetry. we want your interactive CNF. we want your interactive musical installation
we want your twines. we want your game poems. we want your toolboxes. we want your weird interactive visual art. we want your literary choose your own a*****tures. we want worlds to explore and choices to make. we want the stuff we haven't even thought of yet
Happy birthday to us! The voidspace is two years old today!
Two years ago today I realised there wasn't a venue for literary IF, and if I wanted one I'd better make it myself.
you stand before the crack in the wall. the blue light pouring through is almost blinding.
the crack opens wide. the voices are calling. they sound excited. beyond is the faint suggestion of....party hats?
step through:
ANNOUNCEMENT!
BLACK-OUT POETRY POP UP EDITION!
we want to see what happens when you use Blackout,
@TristanOnek
's blackout poetry generator.
so we are running a pop-up edition dedicated to it. guidelines below:
Looking for a different kind of writing project to try this weekend?
Try Imagined Cities - the voidspace's latest pop up. Pick a track from the playlist. Imagine a city. Write about it.
Subs close 30 November
Full guidelines here:
the voices in the walls see writers getting their first pubs in their 40s, 50s and beyond. your void in chief here was first published aged 38. it will be ok!
Sometimes when I see young writers frustrated with rejections I think of the fact that I didn't graduate college until my mid twenties or get published until my late twenties. Patience, grasshopper. It will get better.
Subs are open for voidspace 9!
We want your branching narratives, choose your own adventure CNF, your puzzle poetry, your immersive storytelling, your philosophical TTRPGs
We want the things we haven't even thought of yet
Make it fresh, make it interactive and send it our way
🏆 From 1500 nominations for 600 magazines, we’ve narrowed it down to the TOP 25 BEST LITMAGS OF 2023. Time to announce the winners!
Today is Round 1:
#25
-11
Wednesday Round 2:
#10
-6
Friday Round 3:
#5
-1
⬇️ Why they were nominated and how to submit
IMAGINED CITIES is now live! If you can, read them in order, sound up. Take your time, let the images breathe within you
Super proud of this collaborative literary happening: the writers who took the sound prompts and created whole worlds with them
POP UP ANNOUNCEMENT: CRASH THIS PROSE!
the voidspace wants to see what you can do with the words generated by
@TristanOnek
's system busting toolbox
instructions below. you have one week...
just over two weeks until issue one drops. are you excited? the voices in the walls are excited
submissions close January 7, so there is still time to join us
running an interactive fiction mag and literally only just realised why Twine is called Twine: it helps you make a path through the labyrinth
the voices in the walls are SHOOK
here at voidspace we want to blur the lines between games and literature and weird unclassifiable art that gives the reader / viewer / listener agency.
any genre. any voice, if it's engaging and truly interactive we will love it
we want to blow the bloody doors off
You should start writing again. The idea of Literary writing is made up, a construct to gatekeep. Literary writing is a conversation with other writers, and anyone can join in at any time. Anyone who tells you there are rules is a gatekeeper.
so many beautiful pieces lined up for issue 5. you are going to have some great fun come January. room for more though, so don't be shy.
the voices in the walls love you unconditionally
Kate Bush is playing in the voidspace tonight and your void in chief is sitting with a blanket and a laptop uploading beautiful and innovative work and generally living her best life 🖤
PUBLISHING ANNOUNCEMENT
Your void in chief is delighted to announce the publication of voidspace press' first hard copy offering: Faultlines by
@dogwithoutlegs
Publication date: 3 March 2024
Pre-order here:
what they don't tell you is the excitement adrenaline sheer JOY of receiving an outstanding submission and accepting it with a whoop and click of the heels
I get to publish THIS? REALLY???
it's so damn cool
The official release date is tomorrow, but it's all ready, more of you will have time to read it on a Sunday, and I'm the EIC mwahaha
SO
Welcome to voidspace 9! It's our second anniversary edition and it's an absolute CORKER
voidspace 6 is now live!
Extraordinarily proud of this issue, which contains some of the best work ever submitted to the zine, and two interviews with interactive creators in theatrical / book spaces. Check it out here:
POP UP KLAXXON!!
Calling all oracles, seers, prophets and chancers.
It's time to PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT
Dust off your tarot, polish your scrying glass and let
@MatGost
's instructions guide you:
Subs to voidspacezine
@gmail
.com by Sunday 28 May
GO!
First up is Sprawl by Emma Levin. A steampunk choose your own adventure graphic novel, with beautiful art, and a philosophical bent.
It came to us as a sub for the zine, but we love it so much we want you all to have the chance to hold it in your hands.
✨ANNOUNCEMENT TIME✨
thrilled to present voidspace zine's first ever interactive poetry reading!
YOU VOTE on the outcome as
@dogwithoutlegs
takes us through the twists and turns of Faultlines, his intense and dizzying interactive chapbook
sign up here:
VOLTA!
Announcing the voidspace's latest pop up VOLTA!
We want your work with a jump, a twist and a flip. It can even be a sonnet (though it doesn't have to be). We just need to be able to feel the jolt
Deadline 26 February 2024
More info here:
Play Your Cards Right, the voidspace's latest mystically inclined pop up is now live!
Writers used the cards to dictate their path. Let's just say the cards have EXCELLENT taste 🖤🖤🖤
Your regular scheduled reminder that subs are open for voidspace 7!
Send us your interactive marvels and make haste - our window closes 7 July. You'll be in some TERRIFIC company 🖤🖤🖤
the voidspace wants to get the IF peeps and the indie lit kids and the creative coders and the visual poetry weirdos and the game/art posse and give them a mug of tea and a plate of biscuits and WiFi and let em run riot
you'll all get on splendidly. now let's go make some stuff
Hard agree. I started the voidspace on a whim, because I wanted somewhere that did what it does, and it didn't exist
Same for everything I've done since - the pop ups, the interviews, the newsletter
It seems to be working out so far. And I love it. No plan, no clue, no regrets!
I get asked this question a lot in email and DM and will just keep repeating it.
My advice is go for it! Whatever it is. I had zero idea what I was doing, I had no experience in anything at all, I knew no one, I felt dumb, awkward, and had no expectations or hope! Live más.
the voices in the walls concur
find your own imagined space and fill it with things you like. find friends who also want to be there. make tea (if you like tea). make art 🖤🖤🖤
How to become a literary writer: find your people, make friends, call yourself a writer, too. Try to make money, try to be happy, Try. It's what Taco Bell would want.
SPECIAL CALL OUT
Do you have an interactive piece that is set, or could be set, in a cafe environment? Does it involve food? Dining? Meeting together in a public space?
Send it our way to have a chance to be part of something VERY exciting 👀👀
Next up, Faultlines, an interactive chapbook by
@dogwithoutlegs
. You may have been lucky enough to catch an early version in issue 1, and now this emotionally devestating and frankly bloody weird immersive mega-sonnet is coming onto your shelves.
Welcome to Bear Creek Corner, a nook in the voidspace offering shelter to citizens of Bear Creek left with nowhere to go after the town was swallowed whole by the portal on Main Street.
The voices in the walls hope they can make themselves at home.
8 followers away from 3,000 😱
to celebrate, when we hit the magic number:
- the voices in the walls will crack out the party poppers; and
- we'll open subs for our next pop-up issue 👀👀
it feels good to be reviewing submissions and sending out acceptances for issue 2, only a matter of days after issue 1 dropped. a nice sense of momentum
5k news part 1: POP UP ANNOUNCEMENT: Pick a Word
You have two weeks to take part in this beautiful interactive prompt exercise by
@errormessage
. Deadline: Friday 25 November
Here's how to play:
Big business happening in the voidspace. Secret Truths is coming together, and we have big news about the voidspace in conversation series.
Hold onto your hats, it's coming soon!
We solicited a few pieces for our opening edition. Now our publication is 100% solicited.
Submitted to us before? Consider yourself solicited. First time submitter who wants to try your hand at interactive work? Solicited.
There. 100%
uploading voidspace 6 tonight. my favourite time - time to revel in the work, all to myself, before I let it go free
publishing something that is I think the best piece I've ever received. it uses interactive means to approach hard truths and I want everyone to read it 🖤
ANNOUNCEMENT!!
VOIDSPACE LIVE HAS A DATE! AND A VENUE!
It's official. voidspace live 2024 will be taking place at Theatre Deli, London, on SUNDAY 9 JUNE
We have performances! Workshops! Crisps! We have some really weird & fresh & thrilling and joyful stuff to show you! 🖤
January is a big month in the voidspace
voidspace 5, our anniversary issue, comes out on January 15th
AND news about voidspace press coming SOON ✨
the voices in the walls are getting excited
Hello all. Big announcement from the voices in the walls today.
Introducing VOIDSPACE LIVE 2024: a festival of interactive arts in London
A bangin programme of interactive performances to choose from, plus a selection of playable exhibits in the breaks
We need your help!
ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!
First up, thrilled to announce that Sprawl will be published on Saturday 3 June 2023
We are going to have a LAUNCH PARTY at 7pm BST - mark your calendars because it's going to be something very special
having an absolute whale of a time designing the most ridiculous merch range a litmag has ever carried.
the voices in the walls are telling me to stop trolling them. no dice, disembodied friends. I'm having too much fun here
One of the personal perks of running a litmag is getting to see people from other areas of your life give writing a go.
I got to publish my mum's first short story. It's really very good, but she's too shy to blow her own trumpet.
hello! at not quite a month in, there are now over 700 people here with me in the voidspace. you'd think it would be a squash but the voidspace does surprising things with dimensions
this makes me very, very happy. thank you 🤎
Both books will have cover art by
@notstuartbuck
and be beautiful slices of interactive art that you will want to keep.
Further announcements to come later in the year. Hold onto your hats, folks. The voices in the walls tell me it's going to be a wild ride 🖤🖤🖤
just under one month to get your interactive submissions in for voidspace 5. subs close on 7 JANUARY 2023
the issue is looking fantastic but there's room for more 👀👀