A colourful promotional graphic for a children’s storytime and craft event featuring All the Colours of the Rainbow by Rae White. The background consists of hand-drawn rainbows in various colors. The main text, in bold purple font on a green rounded rectangle, reads: “ALL THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW - Storytime & Craft.” Below, a pink oval contains event details: “Thursday 17 April @ 10:30am at The Mad Hatters Bookshop.” A speech bubble with a paper plate rainbow craft illustration says: “Create a paper plate rainbow craft!” In the bottom right corner, a Polaroid-style photo features author Rae White, smiling, with pink hair, glasses, a choker necklace, and a bright shirt. In the bottom left, another Polaroid-style image shows an illustration from the book, depicting a character painting rainbows on a wall.

All the Colours of the Rainbow at the Mad Hatter’s Bookshop!

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🌈✨ Join me for a special All the Colours of the Rainbow storytime and craft session at the Mad Hatter’s Bookshop! 📚🎨

📅 Thursday 17th April, 10:30am-12:00pm
📍 The Mad Hatter’s Bookshop, Manly, QLD

Come along for a joyful reading of All the Colours of the Rainbow, followed by a fun craft activity where little ones can make their own paper plate rainbow! Perfect for kids & families. 💖

Reserve your spot here.

A colourful promotional graphic for a children’s storytime and craft event featuring All the Colours of the Rainbow by Rae White. The background consists of hand-drawn rainbows in various colors. The main text, in bold purple font on a green rounded rectangle, reads: “ALL THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW - Storytime & Craft.” Below, a pink oval contains event details: “Thursday 17 April @ 10:30am at The Mad Hatters Bookshop.” A speech bubble with a paper plate rainbow craft illustration says: “Create a paper plate rainbow craft!” In the bottom right corner, a Polaroid-style photo features author Rae White, smiling, with pink hair, glasses, a choker necklace, and a bright shirt. In the bottom left, another Polaroid-style image shows an illustration from the book, depicting a character painting rainbows on a wall.

‘All the Colours of the Rainbow’ media roundup

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I’ve recently had the pleasure of doing heaps of interviews for All the Colours of the Rainbow, and have been thrilled with many positive reviews.

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🌈 Celebrate the release of All the Colours of the Rainbow with me! 🌈

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Shelf Lovers are hosting a wonderful event on 1 Feb from 2pm to celebrate the release of All the Colours of the Rainbow! The event will include craft activities and treats aimed at families and little ones, but everyone is welcome.

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Social media graphic for author event at Shelf Lovers featuring Rae White and their book All the Colours of the Rainbow. The flyer includes a photo of Rae White with pink hair and glasses, smiling against a colorful background. Below the photo is the book cover, which features a child painting smiling rainbows. The event is scheduled for Saturday, 1 February at 2 PM, and includes reading and signing, craft activities, treats, and balloons.

There will be more events coming soon – I can’t wait to share with you all the plans we have for this colourful, inclusive book!

All the Colours of the Rainbow has also been featured in:

Event promotion tile for the Trans Book Festival featuring Rae White. Rae, with short pink hair and glasses, is wearing a colourful shirt with a jellyfish pattern and a black choker, standing against a vibrant graffiti wall. Event details are displayed on blue boxes: Trans Book Festival, The Wheeler Centre, Naarm, 8 Feb 2025. The background features a split pastel design in yellow and pink. Event promotion tile for 'The Last Word.' The title is displayed in bold, pink-and-blue bubble letters at the top. Below are photos of four poets: Shastra Deo, Maddy Dale, Rae White, and Svetlana Sterlin. Text at the bottom of the image reads: 'An Afternoon of Curated Poetry by Blue Bottle x The Braddyton.' Event details are highlighted on the right: 'Can You Keep A Secret, 18 Jan, 3–5 PM

Upcoming events!

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Join me at The Last Word, a curated poetry showcase by Blue Bottle Journal and The Braddyton, on Sat 18 January from 3PM at Can You Keep A Secret in Woolloongabba. 

Listen to readings from Maddy Dale, Svetlana Sterlin, Shastra Deo and myself, and bid farewell to Shastra, Bronwyn Bradley, and Aoife Hilton as they embark on new journeys. Let’s celebrate with poetry and raise a toast to our departing friends!

More info and tickets.

Event promotion tile for 'The Last Word.' The title is displayed in bold, pink-and-blue bubble letters at the top. Below are photos of four poets: Shastra Deo, Maddy Dale, Rae White, and Svetlana Sterlin. Text at the bottom of the image reads: 'An Afternoon of Curated Poetry by Blue Bottle x The Braddyton.' Event details are highlighted on the right: 'Can You Keep A Secret, 18 Jan, 3–5 PM.'

I’m also a video/virtual panelist at Trans Book Festival on 8 February, held at the Wheeler Centre! I’ll be reading my poetry from Nothing To Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia.

The Trans Book Festival is a day to celebrate the talents, courage and creativity of trans and gender diverse authors.

More info and tickets.

Event promotion tile for the Trans Book Festival featuring Rae White. Rae, with short pink hair and glasses, is wearing a colourful shirt with a jellyfish pattern and a black choker, standing against a vibrant graffiti wall. Event details are displayed on blue boxes: Trans Book Festival, The Wheeler Centre, Naarm, 8 Feb 2025. The background features a split pastel design in yellow and pink.

Trans Book Festival includes an all-star line-up from across so-called Australia including Alison Evans, Clare O’Hanlon, Dylin Hardcastle, Erin Riley, Hasib Hourani, Jasper Peach, Kaya Wilson, Kris Kneen, Liz Sutherland, Madison Moffat, Michael Earp, Mx Sly, Nevo Zisin, Noah Riseman, Orlando Silver, P.Eldridge of Sissy Anarchy (UK), Quinn Eades, Sam Elkin, Shelley Parker-Chan, Son Vivienne, Yves Rees, Ernest Price + more.

Photo of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry, Issue 40 titled ‘Extinction,’ placed on a green and cream floral-patterned fabric. The cover of the journal has a dark maroon border, with the central artwork depicting a textured, moss-covered koala with a baby on its back, with smoke rising from its body.

‘welcome to all this’ in Rabbit Poetry Journal

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Thrilled to have a new poem ‘welcome to all this’ in Rabbit Poetry Journal #40 Extinction. Much love and appreciation for editors Jessica L. Wilkinson, Elena Gomez and aj carruthers. 

Photo of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry, Issue 40 titled ‘Extinction,’ placed on a green and cream floral-patterned fabric. The cover of the journal has a dark maroon border, with the central artwork depicting a textured, moss-covered koala with a baby on its back, with smoke rising from its body.

As I write this a scrub turkey is scratching through the leaves outside my bedroom window and a lorikeet is yelling from a palm tree.

Photo of a white page with text that reads: ‘Rae White - welcome to all this.’
Photo of a white page with text of a poem that reads: ‘welcome swallows skim rooftop lap pool for chlorine-garnished mosquitos / I am workaday coffee grind guardian gnome / white herons watch wait cast angular shadows over bootleg fishing nets / I am city smoke burnout guerrilla gardener / currawong calls reverberate off stark robot high-rises as dusk draws near / I am unceasing howling wheat-paste protester / I watch the symmetrical sky-dance of beak-heavy pelicans reflected on river's mirror / I refuse to say goodbye to all this’

As I write this, Rabbit are waiting to hear back about vital funding. If you haven’t already please consider subscribing to Rabbit and/or buying some of their brilliant poetry collections.

Photo of a white page with text that reads: ‘So, I am wondering about how poetry might—if not evoke direct action-actually ignite the passion for action. Poetry as part of the resistance ecology. Rabbit itself stands on the precipice of extinction as we await vital funding news from government support. With institutional support largely dried up due to ongoing post-COVID cut-backs, we will at the very least revise our publications plan going forward. Of course, many Australian literary journals are similarly feeling the pinch. But I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our section and guest editors over the years. For this issue, I would particularly like to thank the guest poetry editors-Elena Gomez and aj carruthers—for their thoughtful selection and curation of 'extinction' poems, and for their dedication to the poetics of resistance. I also thank Jeanine Leane for curating a First Nations section from the 'Us Mob' writing group. I offer the deepest thanks to Tracy O'Shaughnessy for her indefatigable work as Rabbit's publications manager—we would not have survived this long without you. And finally, thank you to all our readers, our subscribers, our supporters, for meeting these pages with much enthusiasm and excitement. We hope to continue hopping in the near future.’

(Excerpt from Jessica L. Wilkinson’s editorial.)

Black-and-white artwork of a dense greenhouse filled with leafy plants. Overlaid on the scene is a geometric framework of translucent rectangular shapes, creating a layered, architectural effect that contrasts with the foliage.

Ekphrastic poem in Antipodes!

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I have a new poem in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature | Vol 36 | Iss 2.

‘A robot discovers an overgrown garden, year 2121’ is an ekphrastic poem I wrote after Jane Grealy’s Maria’s Garden, Scheme B (2021); pastel, conte and charcoal on paper; Museum of Brisbane Collection.

Thank you to poetry editor Nathanael OʻReilly and the team at Antipodes. And to my Ekphrastic Writing Club at Museum of Brisbane.

Black-and-white artwork of a dense greenhouse filled with leafy plants. Overlaid on the scene is a geometric framework of translucent rectangular shapes, creating a layered, architectural effect that contrasts with the foliage.