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.
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
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.
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.//
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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I have a short story called ‘Local Legend’ up on Slink Chunk Press! It’s about an enby who meets a unicorn and I absolutely loved writing it. Enjoy!
Content warning: poop, pee, first aid/wound care.
Photo credit: Noah Jacquemin via Flickr, All Creative Commons.
Wanna read a creepy poem about baby teeth? Of course you do! My poem ‘Mother’s milk’ is in Issue 6 of the awesome Gargouille. Grab yourself a copy in their shop for only 18 bucks!
Hi fronds! I have a poem in the ‘New Shoots Anthology: poems inspired by plants’, thanks to Red Room Company and The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Download the Anthology PDF here for free!
I have a flower-themed poem called Sunday Stroll in the latest Umbel and Panicle! The poem uses ze/hir pronouns and is about a flowering lithop. 🌸
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