Last month I had two new visual poems published! I’ve been exploring what poetry means to me and how I can best express that, including playing with other art forms and pushing my own boundaries.
I was so proud to have my blackout poem ‘flourish, viola’ published at Honey & Lime Lit.
And my visual poem ‘clear skies’, which incorporates seashells, polaroid photos and printed labels, appeared in Baby Teeth Journal.
Last week I won my very first fiction prize! My short story, The Body Remembers, placed second in the 2019 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction!!!
Big congratulations to the winner of the Prize Jane O’Sullivan for her story Limpet Teeth and to Emily Dang for How to Cook Pho, which placed third. And a huge thank you to the judges Alison Evans, Danielle Binks and Melanie Joosten.
You can read more about the prize at Lip Mag.
The Body Remembers follows the close relationship between a non-binary protagonist and his grandparent with Alzheimer’s disease. The story employ poetic devices while exploring themes of family, transition, and memory (of both the mind and the body).
The winning stories and author Q&As will be published at Lip Mag in the coming weeks!
Adam Ford reviewed Milk Teeth and Anders Villani’s Aril Wire in Cordite!
** You can read the full review here **
I could honestly quote the whole piece, but here’s one of the most striking paragraphs re: what I’m trying to achieve in my work:
But while gender identity is at the fore of some poems, White also challenges the potential assumption that a non-binary activist poet can or should only write about their activism. This point is successfully made by poems like ‘Plants my exes gave me’ and ‘Enraptured’, which depict experiences like gardening and falling in love that are common to all humans. In doing so White validates and celebrates the continuum of gender with other modes of experience, and hopefully educates those who believe they can only experience non-binary life vicariously.
And my absolute favourite lines:
There’s an appealing messiness, a futz and clutter, a chaos to the world White writes … Milk Teeth is an eclectic mixtape of a book, a stellar debut exhibiting equal parts ‘fuck that noise’ and a visceral love of life.
Thank you Adam and Cordite for such an insightful and eloquent review!
So happy to announce that I’m an artist at Emerging Writers’ Festival this year!
I’ll be doing two awesome events with some of my fave fellow writers and creatives. I feel so so lucky!
Click here for more info on the event Writing Trans & Gender Diverse Characters.
I’ll be tabling at the UQ Art Museum zine fair on 4 May, 10am-4pm! I’ll be selling copies of all my zines and a handful of Milk Teeths. Come along and say hi!
**For more info, check out the Facebook event here**
This week Milk Teeth was commended in the 2018 Anne Elder Award! Winner of the award was the fabulous Eunice Andrada for her book Flood Damages. Many big congrats to this wonderful writer! My book was commended for the award alongside fellow poets: Maryam Azam – The Hijab Files; Marjon Mossammaparast – That Sight; and Lindsay Tuggle – Calenture. Thanks to his year’s judges: Gig Ryan, Des Cowley and Bonny Cassidy. For more info about the award, visit the Australian Poetry website.
This week I got my very first YouTube review of Milk Teeth from Six Minutes For Me as part of #AussieApril! In this video Jaclyn also reviewed Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton. You can check out the video here.
I’m really looking forward to heading to Sydney and Newcastle next week for some poetry readings and a workshop! If you want to come along, here’s all the details:
I’ll have books available to buy at all these events, so please say hi to me and get a signed copy of Milk Teeth 🙂 (eftpos and cash payments are both fine!)
Photo by Marion Michele on Unsplash.
I have a new poem ‘The three genders: women, men, consumerism’ in the latest foam:e!
Here’s a little preview …
“Tiny silver links catch / against titanium like gravel-jangle / in Sunday’s motor mower.”
Photo by 🇨🇭 Claudio Schwarz | @purzlbaum on Unsplash
I have a new poem up at Subbed In’s Ibis House! It’s about um … being trans and sexting/sexing other trans people. *blushes*
**Read ‘levitate me, lover’ here**
If you like the piece you can also tip me some money, which would be really lovely.
Have a read of my new poem about a cursed suburban rental in the latest Vulture Bones, a speculative fiction magazine for trans and enby voices.
You can also read the full Issue 4 of Vulture Bones on their website.
Saturday 22 June, 2.30pm.