Thank you to the wonderful Dr Willo Drummond and Stuart Barnes for choosing my poem ‘I am queer / and so is the moon’ for Plumwood Mountain’s brilliant new issue ‘Queering Ecopoet(h)ics’. And thank you to editor Amanda Lucas-Frith for all your incredible work.
Poetry performance at Cyber Bunker!
I’ll be reading poetry at the opening of Cyber Bunker, a new project space for noise, new media, experimental arts, sound and performance, and the sibling space of Cyber Palace!
Come along on 21st of April 4-9pm for an afternoon of art, sound and poetry. 🌟
Pay what you can – tickets on Humanitix
4 – 9pm | Sunday April 21st
$10 – $20 (pay what you can)
All proceeds go to the artists
Cyber Bunker Project Space
Gipps St/Wickham St, Fortitude Valley.
Launching: Uplift – a poetry community hub
I’ve started my own poetry initiative called Uplift! (Along with my wonderful colleague Charity Shadforth.)
I love the poetry community here in Meanjin and further afield, and I want to help it shine brighter than ever!
Uplift is a poetry community hub that aims to uplift people and their poetry through events, opportunities, and connection. I want us to thrive on poetic reciprocity, and be non-competitive and community-focused.
At this early stage, Uplift is a comprehensive monthly newsletter for sharing and showcasing poetry events, opportunities and more in Meanjin (Brisbane), Queensland, and Australia-wide.
At Uplift, we research events, publishing opportunities, book releases and beyond, so you don’t have to, then we send them straight to your inbox.
SUBSCRIBE NOW or check out our website.
Got a poetry event, opportunity or book release you want us to share? Head to our website for more info.
In the very near future, we aim to kick off our own events, partner with organisations, and provide even more services to the poetry community.
Uplift is based on stolen lands in Meanjin, the lands of the Jagera and Turrbal people. Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
‘stand up’ in 2024 Freeplay Awards!
‘stand up’ got an honourable mention in 2024 Freeplay Awards! The accolades for this little Bitsy game just keep on coming and I’m so incredibly proud.
Huge congrats to all the nominees, and a big thank you to this year’s judges!
More info, including the full list of fabulous nominees, can be found on the Freeplay website.
Tiny Spoon features my latest artwork
Tiny Spoon, Issue 11: Emergence features my art on the front cover! Head to tinyspoon.org to grab a copy.
revival and revival {remixed}, 2023, are both digital photo collages.
Take what you have,
take more, take more,
take care, intake water,
grow grow
g r o w
These digital artworks collage and manipulate my own photos and images from the public domain. Using depictions of flowers and plants blooming and growing, I wanted to illustrate the transgender journey of ongoing emergence – – – of resurrection, trans-regeneration, rebirth, trans-revival.
Tiny Spoon Issue 11: Emergence, released Fall/Winter 2023 is their second perfect bound edition that contains a myriad of creative work exploring emergence / emergent / emergency.
Issue 11: Emergence also features work from: Rachel Becker, A. Benét, Melanie Bryant, Ash(ley) Michelle C., Kelly Corinda, Megan Jauregui Eccles, Joanna Englert, Josh Gaydos, Jessica Heron, Janis Butler Holm, Victoria Hood, Ani Jones, Dominic Loise, Brice Maiurro, Michelle Meyer, Jason R. Montgomery, Michelle Naka Pierce, Iñaki Oñate, Lesley Rogers Hobbs, Karen Sadler, Mara Sedlins, Kanchi Sharma, Jennifer Alyn Sheets, Robert Eric Shoemaker, Siobhán, Bean Sprouts, Verna Zafra-Kasala, and Ariel Zhang.
‘stand up’ shortlisted for 2023 Queer Games Festival
Oh wow! Only just found out ‘stand up’ was a shortlisted title in the 2023 Queer Games Festival awards in Naarm/Melbourne!
A huge thank you to the judges for shortlisting my game. Find out more and check out the other amazing queer games on the MQGF website.
This little game about trans joy has made it further than I ever could’ve expected. Thank you so much to everyone who’s played it and shared it. 💖🌈
From being originally published in Backslash Lit – Issue 6 – ‘ZIP / FREEZE / BUNDLE’, ‘stand up’ us gone on to win the 2022 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Digital Innovation, been part of the Official Selection – Pride at Play 2023, supported financially by the incredible Queer Games Bundle 2022, and featured in Indiepocalypse #44.
Also, since ‘stand up’ I’ve released two more Bitsy games (‘forage. found’ and ‘queer picnic’) which you can play for free on my itch page.
Exactly As I Am’s second print run!
Exactly As I Am (UQP) is on its second print run!
So happy to see these shiny award stickers for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Shortlist and Queensland Literary Award Finalist!
Proud of my beloved book, its success, and of course, its wonderful readers. Thank you!
Exactly As I Am has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards!
Absolutely incredible news!!! My beautiful book Exactly As I Am (UQP 2022) has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards!
Shout out to my fellow shortlistees in poetry: Gavin Yuan Gao, Lionel Fogarty, Sarah Holland-Batt, and Scott-Patrick Mitchell. And thank you to judges Andy Jackson, Jazz Money and Judith Beveridge.
Quote from the Judges’ comments:
‘This book is an impressive and necessary work, one which will help to break down barriers and prejudices faced by transgender people. Essentially, it is a book of love and empowerment.’
Queer Halloween Stories Bundle 2023
The Queer Halloween Stories Bundle returns for 2023 with over 100 projects from over 80 folks from around the globe, including work by me!
The Queer Halloween Stories Bundle is a mutual aid bundle directly benefiting queer indie developers, authors, and artists, with all sales split evenly among participants who have opted in to receive funds for their work
There are two versions of the bundle: $60 Fright Edition AND $10+ Treat Edition.
You can help fund the future of queer art by supporting these amazing creators and discovering titles you won’t find anywhere else!
(Image credit: Candy the Cyclops was originally designed by inkymaw. Main promotional art was drawn by Isla of milk+ visual, with logowork by Madi of Sad Ghost Studios.)
New Bitsy game – ‘queer picnic’
Todays the day! Welcome to your first queer picnic 🌈💖
Play my new Bitsy game called ‘queer picnic’, created for the Rainbow Game Jam 2023.
‘queer picnic’ was inspired by my beautiful wonderful friends at Queer Literature Book Club, and Trivia Kings, Queens and iNBetweens. 💖💖