Poetry performance at Cyber Bunker!

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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.

More info.

Logo of 6 rectangles increasing in size from short to tall, and increasing in colour, from pastel shades of yellow, pink, green and blue, to darker shades of pink, yellow, orange, purple, green and blue. At the bottom of each rectangle is an uppercase letter which combined together reads UPLIFT. This image is repeated three times.

Launching: Uplift – a poetry community hub

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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.

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Tiny Spoon features my latest artwork

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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.

Photo collage of black and white pixelated upright sunflower and several other drooping flowers in a tin. Beside their petals are the white words ‘revival, rebirth, resurrection, regeneration’ and on their leaves drip the black words ‘grow’. This image sits on a swirly, pixelated yellow, pink and blue background.

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

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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.

Screen shot of ‘stand up’ with pink, white and blue pixelated hearts which reads ‘love you’.
Image description: Graphic image with the cover of Exactly As I Am which features the image of black and white shards surrounded by a yellow border. Beside the image is the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Australian Government and Creative Australia logos, and text that reads ‘2023 Shortlist. Poetry. Exactly As I Am. Rae White. University of Queensland Press.’ Below this is a grey footer with the text ‘Celebrating Australian Writing. creative.gov.au/pmlas.'

Exactly As I Am has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards!

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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. 

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

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.’

Image description: Graphic image with the cover of Exactly As I Am which features the image of black and white shards surrounded by a yellow border. Beside the image is the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Australian Government and Creative Australia logos, and text that reads ‘2023 Shortlist. Poetry. Exactly As I Am. Rae White. University of Queensland Press.’ Below this is a grey footer with the text ‘Celebrating Australian Writing. creative.gov.au/pmlas.'
Colour illustrated image of a cyclops with purple long hair, wearing an orange dress and a pumpkin hair band. The cyclops is throwing candy to the viewer which is wrapped in different flag colours, like the rainbow pride flag, etc. Black text logo with a ghost-themed playful, colourful background reads, ‘Queer Halloween Stories 2023 Bundle.’ Below this, black text with a white background reads, ’83 Digital Games, 22 Physical Games, 7 Books, 3 Comics, 3 Audio Dramas. All for $10 or more!’

Queer Halloween Stories Bundle 2023

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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.)