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I’m joining Queensland Poetry!

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Very exciting news! This week I join Queensland Poetry as their Events and Marketing Manager!

Big love to Zenobia Frost who handed over the reins to me this weekend and has done an absolutely outstanding job. In this role I hope to honour, nurture and celebrate the poetry community, and the voices of future and established artists, especially those from marginalised backgrounds. May I remain humble, driven and community-focused.

Queensland Poetry (QP) supports poets and spoken-word artists in Queensland, Australia through its flagship annual festival, year-round events and workshops, Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence Program, Arts Queensland Poetry Awards, prizes and challenges, and in-school programs.

From qldpoetry.org/about

Our upcoming poetry events are listed on the QP website. I’d love to see you there!

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New article in WellBeing Wild #6

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I have a new article in WellBeing Wild #6 about mutual aid and community. Thank you to the wonderful folks I interviewed – Tasia Amber (of Food Assistance Angels and Wild Spice Kitchen), Hope Foley (Growing Forward Meanjin), and Marion Abraham (Seedbar).

Grab yourself a copy of Wild at wellbeingshop.com.au or at your local bookshop or newsagent.

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Anne Elder Award 2020

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This year I again had the pleasure of judging the Anne Elder Award through Australian Poetry. Fellow Judges Marcella Polain, Toby Fitch and I chose our winner Ella Jeffery for Dead Bolt (Puncher & Wattmann 2020), as well as awarding Highly Commended to Cadaver Dog by Luke Best (UQP 2020) and Commended to Ask Me About the Future by Rebecca Jessen (UQP 2020). Congratulations to all!

The award is named after Australian poet Anne Elder, 1918-1976. The Anne Elder Award is sponsored by Anne’s daughter, Cathie, and is for a sole-authored first book of poetry of 20-minimum pages in length, published in Australia.

Read our judge’s comments about the award winning books and more information about the award on the Australian Poetry website.

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FotP online!

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Oh hey, cool zine news: I’m gonna have a virtual stall at Sticky Institute’s Festival of the Photocopier online! The site will launch on 20th February at 12pm AEDT at fotp.online. The website will be live for at least a year post-launch, which is really exciting for those who can’t pop by this weekend.

Artistic sketch of a blue frog sitting on a chair with paper balanced on their knees, a pair of scissors and twine lay at their feet. The text fotp.online floats above their shoulder and head.

See you online, zinesters!

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New poem in Vastarien!

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I have a new poem in the latest Vastarien Vol 3 Issue 2! It’s a found poem with Zalgo text called ‘your AI girlfriend named “it”’ and it’s based on phrases from the article ‘Sex robots with “coding errors” prone to “violence and could strangle humans” (David Rivers, The Daily Star, 2019). Grab a print or ebook version of Vastarien at: https://grimscribepress.com/issues/

Photo of a dark covered journal with a creepy wooden looking face on the front titled ‘Vastarien A Literary Journal - Vol 3 Issue 2 - Fall 2020’. The journal sits on a black glitter cloth background with two horse spine bones as decoration.