🌈 I’ll be selling my zines at National Young Writers’ Festival zine fair this year! 🌈
🏠 Elderly Citizens’ Centre, Laing St, Newcastle
⏰ Sun Oct 1, 11am – 4pm
Poetry reading at COUPLET
Super pumped to announce I’ll be reading at Queensland Poetry Festival‘s COUPLET in October alongside the incredible Angela Gardner!
** Friday October 6, 2017 from 5.30-6.30pm at the Brisbane Square Library **
I’ll be sure to entertain you with the weirdest and queerest poems from my manuscript ‘Milk Teeth’. See you there!
‘Milk Teeth’ won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Prize
On Thursday night I reached a milestone I’ve always wanted: winning the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize! This means I’ll have a published book ready for you to read in a year’s time, thanks to University of Queensland Press.
Here’s a photo of myself and 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize winner Shastra Deo. UQP will launch Shastra’s debut collection, The Agonist, today at Queensland Poetry Festival.
ZICS this weekend!
Hi pals!
I’ll be at Zine and Indie Comic Symposium this weekend! I’ll have all my zines for sale, including my new one ‘Diary of a Lavender Plant’.
Plus, to accompany my succulent zines, I’ll have some newly propagated succulent babes for sale! You can grab them for 4 bucks each or $5 with ‘I Heart Succulents Volume 1’. There’s only a handful of them, so get in quick!
I’ll also be on two panels …
Saturday: Our Stories, Our Zines
Sunday: Zineside-Out: the Woolf Pack Panel at ZICS 2017
And of course I’ll be partying at ZICS ⅄┴ɹ∀Ԁ Boat!
See you all there 🙂 🙂
Zineside-Out panel at ZICS
Get along to Zineside-Out: the Woolf Pack Panel at Zine and Indie Comic Symposium on Sunday, August 20 at 4 PM to hear Rebecca Cheers, Talia Enright, Sober Bob, Tegan Elizabeth Webb and MEEEE to talk about what roles zines play in the other loves of our lives: activism, art, the world beyond the distro.
New zine: Diary of a Lavender Plant
You can now buy Diary of a Lavender Plant on my Etsy store. I’ll also be giving some to Junky Comics today and selling copies at ZICS, Brisbane.
New flash fiction: Snap Frozen
I have a new piece of flash fiction on Seizure called Snap Frozen. It’s about jeans, jizz and fuckboys. Enjoy! 😉
Picture by Roy Chen
Queensland Poetry Festival 2017
This year’s Queensland Poetry Festival has an incredible line-up of 80+ sessions and 120+ artists!
I’m pumped to announce I’ll be reading at QPF New Voices from 10-11am Sunday 27th August, Judith Wright Centre – IMA Screening Room, Brisbane.
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oh hey, I wrote a piece of plant-inspired micro-fic for Story Seed Vault!
Princess Philodendron glides up sunlit steps to the masquerade in hir dress awash with pink variegation, hir mask a cotton-candied shroud.
When you look through a garden, you may see the Philodendron erubescens ‘Pink Princess’ is a climbing perennial plant with pink variegated leaves. Botanist Simcha Lev-Yadun suggested that some patterns of leave variegation may be a part of a defensive ‘masquerade strategy’. Taking this concept and combining it with fairy tale fantasy, Rae White weaves an enchanting story.
//@wings_humming is a non-binary poet and writer from Brisbane. They’ve been published in @slinkchunkpress, @corditepoetry and others.//
Local Legend
by Rae White
I don’t see the unicorn at first. I’m walking with my head down, thumb scrolling my phone in search of movie reviews. I kick the cubicle door open with my foot and catch it with my elbow. I’m immediately struck by the fresh smell of eucalyptus but even that doesn’t get me to look up.
It’s not until I lock the door behind me and put my phone down beside the sink, that I notice the small mound of glittered feathers curled beside the toilet, their long tail reaching up and hanging loosely around the flush lever.
I stare at the vivid plumes and muscular curves, taking in the distinctly Australian scent of their tiny form: a combination of strong eucalyptus, wattle and mulch. There’s another smell too: the smell of shit.
As I walk closer to the breathing shape, I notice three things: the glassy cone…
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