Get ready for an unforgettable experience at Red Dirt Poetry Festival 21-25 August in Mparntwe (Alice Springs)!
Join me for Moonrise Poetry, a Zine Making Workshop, and Late Night Love Inn.
Check out the full Red Dirt Poetry Festival Program.
Moonrise Poetry
Date: 21 August
Time: 6.30-9pm
Location: Earth Sanctuary
Zine Making Workshop
Date: 25 August
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Location: The Roastery Cafe
Late Night Love Inn
Date: 25 August
Time: 9.15-11pm
Location: Araluen Arts Centre
Thank you Saffron Jones for interviewing me for the latest issue of Jacaranda. It was such a joy to chat to you about poetry, publishing and of course, Animal Crossing ❤️
You can purchase a copy of Jacaranda: Volume 11.1 – Exposed Roots on the Jacaranda website.
Make your own zine with me on Saturday, 22 June from 1-3pm at Strathpine Library!
This workshop is an inclusive safe space to explore writing that says something about you, how you see yourself, and how you see the world.
What’s a zine? It’s a handmade magazine that can be as hi or low-tech as you like. You can share poetry, drawings and art, jokes, quotes, stories, thoughts – anything you like!
Ages 16+
Free. Bookings required.
Calling all poets, spoken word lovers and creatives! Celebrate PRIDE Month on 19 June at Southport Library’s Rainbow Poetry Open Mic night, which I have the absolute honour of hosting!
Book your seat and sign up for the Open Mic on the night, first in, first to perform. You’ll have up to 3 minutes on the mic. We can’t wait to hear your poetry!
Tomorrow 17 May from 6:30 PM!
On International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), join Deborah Fisher (MC), Ben Blue, Kat Nurthen and myself for a panel discussion about community building and creating welcoming spaces.
Thank you Tricia Dearborn for choosing ‘Bad poems’ to be in the latest issue of Cordite.
You can also read the entire brilliant issue #112 Treat now.
Thank you to the wonderful Dr Willo Drummond and Stuart Barnes for choosing my poem ‘I am queer / and so is the moon’ for Plumwood Mountain’s brilliant new issue ‘Queering Ecopoet(h)ics’. And thank you to editor Amanda Lucas-Frith for all your incredible work.
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.
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.
‘stand up’ got an honourable mention in 2024 Freeplay Awards! The accolades for this little Bitsy game just keep on coming and I’m so incredibly proud.
Huge congrats to all the nominees, and a big thank you to this year’s judges!
More info, including the full list of fabulous nominees, can be found on the Freeplay website.
Rae White 