Check out my upcoming (and past) events and appearances.

If you want me to do a poetry reading, participate in a panel or talk, attend a zine fair, etc. please contact me or hire me.

Upcoming:

• Denizen’s Digest Issue IV launch – 16 November 2025, 12-2pm at Netherworld
• Calanthe Collective – Poets @ Zamia poetry reading – 21 November 2025, 6pm at Zamia Theatre, Tamborine Mountain

• Poetry of Flight (Liquid Amber Press) launch – 27 November 2025, 7.30pm AEDT online

Past:

2025

• Fashioning Queer Identities Exhibition – 29 October 2025, 5pm at Queensland Multicultural Centre
• SpeakEasy Poetry Open Mic | Studio Sessions Vol. 8 – 16 October 2025, 6pm at echo & bounce
• Stella Day Out – The Dreaming Body: Inheritance, Memory and Poetic Voice with Manisha Anjali and Shastra Deo in conversation with Rae White – 13 September 2025, 3.15pm at Avid Reader
• Make an Enby Zine at International Non-Binary Day – 6 September at Jagera Hall
• Queer Zest Zine Fest 2025
• swim meet lit mag – SLIP launch – 23 August 2025, 2pm at New Farm Park
• eff-able online launch – 13 July, 7pm BST online/Zoom
• Q-Lit Festival Opening Gala – 20 June 2025, 7pm @ Mission to Seafarers, Naarm (Melbourne)
• poets@stones – 24 April 2025 @ books@stones, Stones Corner
• QUT Literary Salon – April Salon: Fidelity – 23 April 2025, 4pm @ Shelf Lovers
• All the Colours of the Rainbow storytime & craft – 17 April 2025, 10.30am @ the Mad Hatters Bookshop, Manly
• Expo 2088 – Group Art Show and Denizen’s Digest 3 Launch – 10 April 2025, 6pm @ Netherworld, Fortitude Valley
• All the Colours of the Rainbow event – 12 February 2025 @ Where the Wild Things Are
• Trans Book Festival – 8 February 2025 @ The Wheeler Centre
• All the Colours of the Rainbow – Author Event at Shelf Lovers with Rae White – 1 February 2025 @ Shelf Lovers
• SpeakEasy Poetry Open Mic | Studio Sessions Vol. 1 – 24 Jan 2025 @ echo & bounce, Woolloongabba
• The Last Word | Curated Poetry by Blue Bottle x The Braddyton – 18 Jan 2025 @ Can You Keep A Secret, Woolloongabba

2024

• Launch of If Movement Was A Language by Svetlana Sterlin – 7 Dec 2024 @ Yeronga Park Swimming Complex
• Queer Zest Zine Fest – 9-17 November 2024 – online
• Celestial Bodies Author Event – 9 October 2024 @ Shelf Lovers
• Late-night poetry tea party – 23 September 2024 @ The Braddyton
• Anthology launch: Celestial Bodies, edited by Aidan Demmers – 12 September 2024 @ Avid Reader
• Write your heart out pop up with Trent Dalton – 6 September 2024 @ Museum of Brisbane
• Red Dirt Poetry Festival – 21-25 August 2024 @ Mparntwe (Alice Springs) – Events: Moonrise Poetry, Zine Making Workshop, Late Night Love Inn
• Queer Poetics masterclass, The Illuminated Ink, WestWords – 13 August 2024
• INBD Author Chat + Meet & Greet – 14 July 2024 @ Shelf Lovers, Meanjin (Brisbane)
• Paperbark Zine Fair – 13 July 2024 @ Jagera Community Hall, Meanjin (Brisbane)
• International Non-Binary Day – 6 July 2024 @ Jagera Community Hall, Meanjin (Brisbane)
• Queer PowerPoint – 26 June 2024 @ The Princess Theatre, Brisbane
• Make a zine workshop – 22 June 2024 @ Strathpine Library, Moreton Bay
• Rainbow Poetry Open Mic Night – 16 June 2024 @ Southport Library, Gold Coast
• IDAHOBIT Gala – 17 May 2024 @ Redcliffe Library
• Cyber Bunker Project Space Opening Event – 21 April 2024 @ Fortitude Valley
• Queer and Trans Community Day – 10 March 2024 @ West End
• QUT Literary Salon – Theme: Salty – 28 March 2024 @ QUT Kelvin Grove

2023

• QUT Literary Salon – 25 November 2023 @ Bloodhound Bar, Fortitude Valley
• Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Ceremony – 16 November 2023 @ National Library of Australia
• Bitsy Basics – Game Making with Rae White – 24 October 2023 @ Cyber Palace
• A Night for the Queen – for Busty Beatz ❤ – 25 August 2023 @ The Tivoli, Brisbane
• Queensland Poetry Month Showcase – 18 August 2023 @ State Library of Queensland
• ‘stand up’ – part of the Official Selection at Pride at Play, 3 – 24 June 2023 @ Carlisle Street Arts Space, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
• Readings and Queer Gamedev Talks: Personal Queer Games Panel at Pride at Play, 17 June 2023, from 1pm @ St Kilda Town Hall
• KCZC #8 Virtual Zine Fest – June 2023
• Brisbane Writers Festival – 13 & 14 May 2023, Brisbane
• Canzine – online zine fair by Broken Pencil – 5-11 May 2023
• Queensland Poetry Festival – April 2023, Brisbane
• ‘stand up’ – part of the Official Selection at Pride at Play, 21 Feb – 4 Mar @ Sydney College of the Arts Project Space.

2022

• Wham! Bam! Cabaret Slam! XMAS EDITION – 13 December 2022 @ 6pm at The Bearded Lady
• Toolkits Poetry – Live on YouTube – 19 October 2022 @ 6pm AEDT
• Qld Poetry Month Salon – hosted by Red Room Poetry – 19 August 2022 @ 6.30pm at State Library of Queensland, Meanjin (Brisbane)
• Volta Poetry – 5 August 2022 @ 6pm at Brisbane Square Library – with Jos Glencross and Madeleine Dale
• International Non-Binary Day reading – 17 July 2022 @ 7pm at Backdock Arts, Meanjin (Brisbane)
• EXACTLY AS I AM book launch!!! – 13 July 2022 @ 6.30pm at Avid Reader (in person and online)
• Celebrating 20 years of the Thomas Shapcott Prize – Queensland Poetry Festival – 5 June 2022 @ 4pm at Judith Wright Centre
• The Self, Emerging – Queensland Poetry Festival – 4 June 2022 @ 11.30 am at Judith Wright Centre
• All I Have is a Voice, Poetry Showcase – Brisbane Writers Festival – 7 May 2022 @ 3pm at Wandering Cooks
• Overshare – Brisbane Writers Festival – 6 May 2022 @ 7pm at SLQ
• Trans Bodies, Trans Lives – Brisbane Writers Festival – 4 May 2022 @ 2.30pm at SLQ
• Gather Round: Chapter 2 – 22 April 2022 @ 6.30pm at Cinnamon & Co Cafe, West End
• Launch of Australian Poetry Anthology Vol 9 – 21 March 2022 @ 7.30pm AEST via Facebook Live
• RuckusFest – Poetry with Sting! with Blue Bottle Journal – 2022 – 4-5pm at Old Museum
• Festival of the Photocopier online – ONGOING – Launched 20th Feb @ 12pm AEDT @ fotp.online

2021

• Sat 02 Oct, 1pm–2pm – National Young Writers’ Festival – Younger Young Writers: Writing Trans Stories
• Thu 30 Sep, 10–11pm – National Young Writers’ Festival – Late Night Reading: Cringey Diaries
• Thu 16 Sep, 6-7.30pm – Wynnum Library, Brisbane – Poets Up Late
• Queer Zest Zine Fest online – 7-8 August 2021 – virtual table @ Zines by Rae

2020

• Fri 13 Nov 2020 – Avant Yard: Homemakers – Bleach* Festival, Chevron Island 7pm AEST
• Sun 4 Oct 2020 – National Young Writers’ Festival – YYWP: Poetry 101 – 4pm
• Fri 2 Oct 2020 – National Young Writers’ Festival – Late Night Readings: No One Is Lonely Eating Spaghetti – 10-11pm
• Mon 14 Sept & Sun 20 Sept 2020 – Webinars: A Nice Writing Time
• Mon 7 Sept 2020 – WEBINAR: Write together, gently: Focus – 6-7pm AEST
• 30 July – 31 Dec 2020 – House of Healing: Poetry First Aid – Red Dirt Poetry Festival Digital 2020
• 30 July – 30 Aug 2020 – Architype Augmented, with Ray Cox – Red Dirt Poetry Festival Digital 2020
• Sun 2 Aug – Poet Roulette – Red Dirt Poetry Festival Digital 2020
• Tues 14 July 2020 – International Non-Binary Day Twitch Livestream
• May-June 2020 – Let’s Talk: Stories – workshop series @ Zoom online
• Sun 17 May 2020 – Let’s Talk: Stories – Exhibition Launch @ Zoom online
• Sat 7 March 2020 – Upstream Zine Fair and workshop @ Wodonga, Victoria

2019

• Sat 8 & Sun 9 Feb 2019 – Festival of the Photocopier @ Meat Market, Melbourne
• Tues 29 Oct 2019 – Urban Internet Myths @ Digital Writers’ Festival
• Sat 26 Oct 2019 – RuckusFest Zine Fair – The Old Museum, Brisbane – 11am-3pm
• Sun 6 Oct 2019 – NYWF Zine Fair – National Young Writers’ Festival @ Newcastle City Library, 11am-4pm
• Fri 4 Oct 2019 – Zine & Heard – National Young Writers’ Festival @ Newcastle City Library, 7pm
• Fri 4 Oct 2019 – Panel: How to Handle Feedback – National Young Writers’ Festival @ Newcastle City Library, 4pm
• Thurs 3 Oct 2019 – Cuplet Carnival – National Young Writers’ Festival @ Newcastle City Library, 8pm
• Thurs 3 Oct 2019 – Debate: Is Flash Fiction Just Bad Poetry? – National Young Writers’ Festival @ Newcastle City Library, 6.30pm
• Mon 30 Sept 2019 – PRIDE September Salon – QUT Literary Salon @ The Bearded Lady, Brisbane 7pm
• Sat 28 Sept 2019 – Stuff and Cirquetry – Vulcana Circus @ Brisbane Powerhouse, 6.30pm
• Sat 14 Sept 2019 – ‘Your gender, your story: find your creative voice through poetry’ – workshop at Our Lives, A Gender Diversity Conference @ Newcastle
• Fri 30 Aug 2019 – Canon Ball III poetry reading – 7pm @ Bloodhound Bar
• Sun 25 Aug 2019 – Listen Series: Listening to Queerness, Queensland Poetry Festival – 4pm – with Omar Sakr, Norman Erikson Pasaribu and Sammaneh Poursh
• Sat 24 Aug 2019 – Circuitry, Queensland Poetry Festival – 4.30pm – a collaborative work between award-winning local poets and Vulcana circus artists
• Sat 24 Aug 2019 – Listen Series: Reading Queensland, Queensland Poetry Festival – 11.30am – with Liam Ferney, Shastra Deo  and Angela Gardner
• Sat 12 June 2019 – International Non-Binary Day poetry reading – Clarence Corner Bookshop, 7pm
• Mon 8 June 2019 – Concrescence Issue 2 Launch Party & poetry reading – The Bearded Lady, Brisbane – 6-9pm
• Sat 1-30 June 2019 – Four poems as part of the exhibition ‘Assuming A Surface’ by Tyza Stewart and James Barth, curated by Caity Reynolds – The Walls Gallery, Miami QLD
• Thurs 20 June 2019 – Emerging Writers Festival – Lunchtime Lit: Reading Poetry 101 – with Sumudu Samarawickrama and Tayi Tibble
• Sat 22 June 2019 – Emerging Writers Festival – Writing Trans & Gender Diverse Characters – with Alison Evans and Krishna Istha
• Sat 4 May 2019 – Second Sight: Zine Fair – 10am-4pm @ UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
• Wed 10 April 2019 – Cuplet Poetry Reading #9 – 7pm @ The Beaumont, Newcastle NSW
• Wed 10 April 2019 – Enby Inclusive Poetics – a workshop with Rae White – 3.30pm @ Hudson Street Hum, Newcastle NSW
• Tues 9 April 2019 – The April Poetry Night at Sappho – 7pm @ Sappho Books, Glebe NSW
• Wed 30 January 2019 – Summer poetry reading – 6pm @ The Alderman, Melbourne

2018

• Wed 5 December 2018 – 7-8pm – Good Sex Award Bookclub reads Milk Teeth @ Avid Reader, Brisbane
• Wed 21 November 2018 – 6pm – Book launch with Jill Jones as part of Queer Legacies, New Solidarities conference – RMIT Radio Theatre, Melbourne
• Sat 17 November 2018 – Zine Fair & Paper Snax Zine Hub launch – Outer Space, Brisbane
• Fri 2 November 2018 – Queer Love, Lyrics and Lore – 5:30pm Brisbane Square Library
• Tues 30 October 2018 – Poem Phone @ Digital Writers’ Festival
• Sun 30 September 2018 – 11am-3pm – Zine Fair @ National Young Writers’ Festival, Newcastle NSW
• Wed 26 September 2018 – 6-8pm – An Evening of Queer Literature @ Avid Reader, Brisbane
• Sun 26 August, 2018 – 12-5pm – QPF Zine Fair – Queensland Poetry Festival @ Judith Wright Centre
• Sat 25 August, 2018 – 6-7pm – MILK TEETH book launch! – Queensland Poetry Festival @ Judith Wright Centre, Foyer
• Sat 25 August, 2018 – 4.30-6pm – The Big Read – Queensland Poetry Festival @ Judith Wright Centre, Performance Space
• Mon 20 August, 2018 – 5-6.30pm – Queensland Poetry Awards Mixtape – Queensland Poetry Festival @ Brisbane Square Library
• Thurs 12 July, 2018 – The Tundish Review Issue 6 Launch – Betty’s Espresso & Bar, Brisbane
• Sat 19 May, 2018 – Saturdays with Rosalind Russell – 2.30-4.30pm @ Woolloongabba, reading alongside Shastra Deo, Ella Jeffery and Jake Goetz
• Friday 4 May, 2018 – Couplet reading with Mindy Gill – 5.30-6.30pm @ Brisbane Square Library
• Tues 20 Mar, 2018 – Woolf Pack #10 Launch – 7-10pm @ The Menagerie Cafe & Bar, Kelvin Grove
• Sun 18 Feb, 2018 – World’s Tiniest zine fair – 10am-4pm @ Perth, WA
• Sun 11 Feb, 2018 – Festival of the Photocopier zine fair – 12-5pm @ Melbourne Town Hall, Swanston Street, Melbourne

2017

• Fri 1 Dec, 2017 – A Hanging Affair zine exhibition – 5-8pm @ Church Brisbane, 243 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
• Oct, 2017 – Digital Writers’ Festival Zine Fair – zine feature + Q&A
• Sat 28 Oct, 2017 – Get YA Words Out – Digital Writers’ Festival 12:30pm AEDT
• Fri 6 Oct, 2017 – COUPLET poetry reading – Brisbane Square Library 5:30-6:30pm
• Sun 1 Oct, 2017 – NYWF zine fair – Elderly Citizens’ Centre, Laing St, Newcastle – 11am-4pm
• Sun 27 Aug, 2017 – ‘QPF New Voices’ poetry reading – Queensland Poetry Festival, Judith Wright Centre – IMA Screening Room 10-11am
• Sat 19 & Sun 20 Aug, 2017 – Zine & Indie Comic Symposium – Brisbane
  — Sat 19, 2017 – 4-5pm – Our Stories, Our Zines (panel chair), ZICS – Brisbane
  — Sun 20, 2017 – 4-5pm – Zineside-Out Panel (panelist), ZICS – Brisbane

2016

• Sun 23 Oct, 2016 – Brisbane Convention of Alternative Press – Brisbane
• Sat 1 Oct, 2016 – ‘My Very First Reading’ –  National Young Writer’s Festival, Newcastle
• Sun 25 Sept, 2016 – GoMA Zine Fair – Brisbane
• Fri 23 Sept, 2016 – mous. magazine issue 2 Launch Party – Brisbane
• Sat 20 & Sun 21 Aug, 2016 – Zine & Indie Comic Symposium – Brisbane
• Sat 20 Aug, 2016 – Gender Trouble (panelist) – ZICS, Brisbane
• Mon 8 Aug, 2016 – Woolf Pack #7 Launch – Brisbane
• Sat 23 July, 2016 – #EnbyLife zine launch – Junky Comics, Brisbane
• Sun 3 July, 2016 – GoMA Zine Fair – Brisbane
• Sun 29 May, 2016 – GoMA Zine Fair – Brisbane
• Thurs 19 May, 2016 – Cassandra and the Boy Doll panel (panel chair) – Anywhere Theatre Festival, Brisbane
• Mon 25 Jan, 2016 – Woolf Pack #6 Launch – Brisbane

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