Thank you Joe Twist for your stunning composition of my poem ‘Abundantly Blue’ and to the Australian Vocal Ensemble AVÉ for bringing it to beautiful blue life on the stage at the Brisbane Powerhouse last night for Melt Festival.
Love to my fellow UQP poets who had their work honoured last night too – David Malouf, Rebecca Jessen, Gavin Yuan Gao, and Jarad Bruinstroop.
I can’t believe Vocal Spectrum is next week! Get your tickets for Wed 5 Nov at Brisbane Powerhouse, part of Melt Festival. The Australian Vocal Ensemble will be performing a very special commissioned piece — Joseph Twist has set the words to my poem ‘Abundantly Blue’ to music!
‘Vocal Spectrum features new vocal chamber works by leading Queensland composers, each set to poetry by LGBTQIA+ poets from across the state, alongside striking new arrangements of beloved queer anthems.’
My beloved poem ‘Spirals exist in nature and have always been here’ has been published in Overland!
I loved writing this poem about soft trans-queer resistance, the beauty of T4T love, and the everlasting nature of spirals and gender fuckery. I’m thrilled it’s found a home in Overland. Thank you so much to poetry editor Elena Gomez for choosing this poem to publish.
Read my poem on the Overland website.
I’ll be hosting a zine workshop at the 2025 SEQ Queer Writers Festival this year, and also chatting on a poetry panel! My zine workshop will give participants an understanding of zines and zine culture, as well as the tools they need to start working on a small zine on a topic of their choice.
2025 SEQ Queer Writers Festival
Saturday 15 November, 2025
9:30am – 4:30pm AEST
Coolum Civic Centre
I’m also honoured to have work in this exhibition! My piece WE ARE HERE combines fashion, protest, poetry and zines.
Fashioning Queer Identities
2025 Exhibition
Wednesday, 29th October 2025
5 pm-8 pm
Queensland Multicultural Centre
UNDERCURRENT is a bold multimedia project and exhibition celebrating the richness and diversity of LGBTQIA + expression. Bringing together art, fashion, performance, and costume, the project explores the many queer identities can be revealed, celebrated, or even concealed.
Developed through co-designed workshops, participants shared stories, reflected on life in Brisbane, and uncovered common themes that speak to personal journeys and collective experience. The result is a striking collection of individual and collaborative works that invite audiences to witness, reflect, and celebrate the power of queer creativity.
I have a tiny new poem in Strange Daze! So honoured to be in the very first issue of this mag alongside so many brilliant contributors. Huge congrats to Laura Bibby for all the work you’ve put into this beautiful project and into creating space for writers.
Read the first issue of Strange Daze.
My new poem ‘Is this devotion?’ has just been published in Island Magazine online!
It’s about the blooming obsession of new queer love, the soft touch of petal fingertips, the all-consuming refrain of spring.
Photo by Rodion Kutsaiev on Unsplash
I’ve recently joined the team at Tranzmission on 4ZZZ radio! Tune into 4ZZZ on Tuesday mornings from 9am AEST for the latest in trans community news, events and discussion. Tranzmission’s mission is to amplify the trans and gender diverse voices of Magandjin/Brisbane and beyond.
You can also listen back to Tranzmission on demand or check out the podcast via the Community Radio Plus app, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
On the show I recently had the privilege of interviewing A.K. Mulford (they/she) who is a bestselling fantasy and romance author; and also celebrated International Non-Binary Day with some poetry readings from #EnbyLife Journal.
I’m thrilled to be part of Q-Lit Festival’s Opening Gala on 20 June in Naarm (Melbourne).
More info and tickets for Q-Lit Festival.
About the Opening Gala
A gala of queer words, voices, and stories. One magnificent night of the stories we tell, the songs we sing and our thoughts that are changing the world. Featuring a range of writers, performers and presenters, responding to the festival’s theme of ”What fills your cup?”
Hosted by Bebe Oliver. Featuring Dean Arcuri, Tiger Salmon, Urvi Majumdar, Claire G. Coleman, Wallis Prophet, Noah Riseman, Lili Wilkinson, Rae White and Ed Moon
My poem ‘Hot Wheels’ is in the latest Meanjin!
Shout out to Echoes from the Cave Inn, the most queer nourishing magical open mic, where this poem was first born.
Grab a copy on the Meanjin website.
About Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025
Energy and life and the body. Disappointment and passion and pride. The inexorable labour of working toward the just. The work of desire, the work of identity, the work of standing still. The work of giving life, the work of telling truth, the work of making a home.
This season, Meanjin’s writers are calling us to account.
What are we gambling with when we settle for what’s merely adequate? What have we already sacrificed the moment we come to realise what’s at stake? What is the price of the just?
Embrace Australia’s finest writers. Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025.
My new poem ‘We’ll show the world’ is out now in Denizen’s Digest – Issue 3: Expo 2088!
As an Expo ‘88 enthusiast, I was super excited to have my poem chosen to be part of this excellent local zine.
The Denizen’s Digest – a weird anthology by the Brisbane bizarre. The digest is a 60 page journey through locally created genre fiction, poetry, creative non-fic and more.
Curated by Netherworld denizens Tim Sifontes-Holzberger and Mitch Wilkins, the third-issue’s theme is ‘Expo 2088.’
Rae White 