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Everybody talks. Your housemate whose ‘compost project’ is blocking the back door and to this day hasn't had a single worm; your local cafe that's ‘for the people’ but charges nine dollars for a coffee.

Despite our name, TalkTalk isn’t interested in just talking. We want to hear stories about people who walk the walk. Who—despite living in a world optimised for convenience, where everything is too expensive, where art is done by robots—do it bloody anyway. 

Have you encountered a fascinating collective that made you, dare we say, talk? Been to a fundraiser that’s still at the back of your mind? Found a curious nook that you’re buzzing to talk about? What local artists are making waves? What businesses are doing things a little differently? 

TalkTalk is an annual student-led Naarm/Melbourne based print and digital publication that celebrates those who are walking the walk!

We are looking for:

• Profiles and interviews (on artists, creators, business owners, communities, collectives)

• Opinion pieces

• Personal essays

• Criticism

• Recommendations/best-of lists

Deadline: Midnight, Sunday 9 August 2026

We accept full pieces, but if you have an idea you want to pitch before your write it, feel free to email us with your ideas (max. three sentences)

Submission guidelines:

Submit to: talktalkmagzbsp@gmail.com

What to submit:

• Author/creator name

• Contact details (email, phone)

• Author/creator bio (50-100 words)

• Title of submission

  • Text submissions: editable Word document

  • Length: standard 600–1200 words; short-form, 300–500 words

  • Photograph and artwork submissions: hi-res JPEG, PDF or PNG file, 300 dpi at page size (210 x 150 mm)

Bowen Street Press (BSP) is a student-led publishing house run by the Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT University. As we’re a small student-led publication, we unfortunately can’t pay contributors and not all submissions will be accepted. However, all contributors will be notified as to whether their submission was successful, and successful submissions will be subject to the editorial process.

Forkful is now welcoming submissions for issue seven: Heirloom. This issue celebrates the well-worn paths of the kitchen, as well as the luddish tendencies you may find yourself passing on.

As an heirloom is both enduring and discriminate, so too should your prose be! Perhaps, like Nigel Slater, the butter in the fridge of your childhood home is rimmed with black crumbs. Or maybe you’ve inherited a questionable method—like tying a chicken’s legs a certain way before cooking, as Sheila Heti recounts in Motherhood. Maybe you’ve been burned by fashion. Perhaps you have a recipe to share that has historical resonance, but is finicky. Or, in the vein of heirloom cultivation, you have a tract on mass agriculture in your back pocket. Traditions new, old or developing; we want to hear them from you!

For this issue we are accepting essays, interviews, reviews, recipes and fiction.

Forkful is a student-led Naarm/Melbourne-based print and digital publication that celebrates Melbourne's distinct and diverse food culture.

What we’re looking for:

• Features: essays & articles (1500 words max)

• Interviews (or pitches for interviews) (1500 words max)

• Recipes (500 words max)

• Reviews/Criticism: restaurants, books, food culture (1000 words max)

• Recommendations (restaurants, food, habits, books) (500 words max)

• Short fiction (please ensure these speak to the theme of the issue) (1000 words max)

• Illustrations, artwork, comics and photographs 

We are also open to other creative interpretations of the theme and form.

Deadline: Midnight, Sunday 9 August 2026

Submission instructions:

• Send submissions to: forkfulsubmission@gmail.com

• Label all files as ‘Full Name_Title of Work_Type of Work’

• Word (.docx) documents for written submissions

• Photographs or artwork as a hi-res PDF, JPEG or PNG file (300 dpi)

• Include:

  • Author/creator name and pronouns

  • Contact details (email and phone number) 

  • Author bio (50–100 words)

Bowen Street Press (BSP) is a student-led publishing house run by the Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT University. As we’re a small student-led publication, we unfortunately can’t pay contributors and not all submissions will be accepted. However, all contributors will be notified as to whether their submission was successful, and successful submissions will be subject to the editorial process.