Entries for the 2020 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction are NOW OPEN and I’m super excited to be one of this year’s judges! Please send us your wonderful short stories that engage with the theme ‘FUTURE’.
For more info visit the Lip Mag website.
I am very proud to announce I am one of the three judges for the 2019 Anne Elder Award panel, along with Gig Ryan and Marcella Polain! Gig and Marcella are former recipients of this significant award, and I was commended in last year’s prize.
For more information about the judging panel, visit the Australian Poetry website.
You can also find more information on entering the Anne Elder Award, with entries closing on 14 March.
The Upstream Zine Fair is happening on Sat 7 March, 5pm to 9pm in Wodonga, Victoria. I’ll be hosting a workshop on alternative/unique ways to fold your zines and I’ll also have a zine stall! You’ll be able to buy most of my zines (and if you can’t make it to Wodonga, you can buy them on Etsy or Gumroad).
If you also want to table and sell your zines, contact: library@wodonga.vic.gov.au. Please come zine with me!
Gabriela Bourke recently reviewed my book Milk Teeth for Mascara Literary Review!
**Read the full review at Mascara**
I’m very humbled for such glowing words as:
It’s interesting to me that White has chosen to precede their collection with a few lines from another poem, Alex Gallagher’s ‘vague body’, an excerpt which concludes ‘I’m tired of being broken by language/when it is the only safe place I’ve ever known.’ (Gallagher, 2017). This reference situates White’s collection in a tradition of non-binary poetry and at the same time indicates a preoccupation of the collection: that is, the way in which language fails to authentically represent transgender people. These lines provide a lens through which we can begin to approach White’s own poetry, which reconfigures modes of representation by offering an always-vivid, sometimes confronting series of poems which may cause discomfort, but in doing so deftly blast apart cisnormative understandings of gender and identity.
And ultimately:
White’s poetry is fresh and defiant, and underlines the importance of writing and publishing in returning the space to communities who have previously been silenced.
Come say hi to me and buy some zines at Festival of the Photocopier 2020!
February Sat 8th & Sun 9th
12-5pm @ Meat Market, North Melbourne
I’ll have a new spooky chatterbox zine and plant zine available, as well as old favourites like Ikea Blackout Poetry and limited copies of my book Milk Teeth!
I have a new visual poem ‘who, what, why, where’ up at Baby Teeth Journal. My first publication of 2020!
*** Have a read on the Baby Teeth website (images and text included) ***
I have a new short piece of fiction up at Scum Mag! ‘Float’ is about flooding and hauntings, and I’m so proud that Scum thought it was spooky enough to publish.
Have a read on the Scum Mag website
I’m blue-cold when you reach me, skin pickled with floodwater, lips gently parted. Lids closed but eyes flickering. I can see your shifting shadow as if through fogged shower glass.
I’m excited for you to hear/read the latest episode of the podcast Supernatural Sexuality with Dr Seabrooke because I both wrote and voiced one of the characters!
Listen to Episode 6: Unspeakable
I play Riley, who’s recently moved into a new apartment where previous owners neglected their trailing ivy houseplant … the plant died and became a sentient spectre named Evergreen! Riley has been enjoying the company of the Evergreen and fantasises about the two being more intimate: Evergreen temporarily sinking into their body, long ghost-stems wrapping around their organs, holding each other leaf-in-hand. Riley wants to ask for this intimacy but doesn’t want to ruin the friendship. What’s an enby to do?
Listen to Episode 6: Unspeakable
This episode was created by Lee Davis-Thalbourne and produced by Passer Vulpes Productions. Doctor Olivia Seabrooke is voiced by Mama Boho. Cover art designed by producer Erin Kyan.
So proud to have won Best Qld Entry in the 2019 Arts Queensland XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word for my poem ‘Hussshhh’, alongside first place winner and awesome poet Fable Goldsmith. Have a listen/read of the winning entries on the Melbourne Spoken Word website!
Shout out to 4ZZZ radio for years of audio and voice training because otherwise I don’t think I could’ve pulled off all the weird sound effects and echos!
I have a poem about hauntings in the final issue of the Tundish Review. Such a wonderful publication that did so many great things for the Brissie poetry scene!
Rae White 