Awards, fellowships, grants
- 2025 Genrepunk Wildcard Award Finalist – for ‘Revolt Revolt!’ (first exhibited at Todo Loco – PEACE / PIECE – Nov 2024 – showcased at La Casa Verde Barranquilla, Columbia and online)
- 2025 Aurealis Award shortlist for Best Anthology – Celestial Bodies, Aidan Demmers (Ed.) (Tiny Owl Workshop)
- 2024 Naarm/Melbourne Queer Games Festival Awards – shortlisted for ‘queer picnic‘
- 2024 Freeplay Awards – honourable mention for ‘stand up’
- 2023 Queer Games Festival Awards – Naarm/Melbourne – shortlisted for ‘stand up’
- 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards – Exactly As I Am shortlisted for the poetry category
- 2023 Queensland Literary Awards – Shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection
- 2022 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards – winner of the Digital Innovation category for ‘stand up’
- 2021 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards shortlist for ‘How to Haunt’
- 2020 Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award – Highest Queensland Entry for ‘The last tourist’
- 2020 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship – for manuscript Welcome Home. Read an excerpt of Welcome Home on the Wheeler Centre website.
- 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards shortlist for ‘who, what, why, where’
- 2020 recipient of a National Assistance Program for the Arts Grant
- 2019 nominee Mx 2019 Award – Trans Community Awards
- 2019 XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word – Highest Queensland Entry for ‘Hussshhh’
- 2019 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction – Second Prize for ‘The Body Remembers’
- 2019 Milk Teeth commended in the 2018 Anne Elder Award
- 2019 Milk Teeth shortlisted for Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry
- 2017 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize – Second Place for ‘what even r u?’ (bonus reading: judges’ notes)
- 2017 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for Milk Teeth
Editing
- Guest editor of Australian Poetry Anthology – Vol 10 2023 with Peter Boyle
Prize judging
- 2025 & 2024 judge for Independent Education Union’s Literary Competition for poetry
- 2024 Judge for Queensland Literary Awards – Steel Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection (Read the shortlist and announcement)
- 2020 Anne Elder Award (Read the award winners & announcement)
- 2019 Anne Elder Award (Read the award winners & announcement)
- 2020 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction
Rae White 