I have a new poem in Issue 7 of Stilts Journal! The poem is an ekphrasis piece inspired by James Gleeson’s Primavera.
**Read the rest of the poem on the Stilts website**
I’m so proud to be published alongside fellow poets Geoff Page, Anne Elvey, Paul Dawson, Gavin Yuan Gao, Luke Best, Tamryn Bennett, Chantelle Mitchell, Milton P. Erlich, Dženana Vucic, Nellie Le Beau, and Stuart Barnes.
I’m so excited to announce I’m facilitating Let’s Talk: Stories, an online writing course of 5 workshops in May and June for young transgender and gender diverse people aged 16-25, thanks to Hunter Gender Alliance (HGA) and Aurora Grants.
Limited tickets available tonight from 6pm!
**Find out more about the course at the HGA website**
I recently spoke with Lip Mag about the 2020 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction, which I have the honour of judging this year alongside Eleni Hale and Jennifer Down.
The Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction calls for stories by women and non-binary writers. What’s your view on diverse representation in publishing? And how do you believe the #ownvoices movement has changed the industry?
I think diverse representation in publishing is extremely important because it opens the door to stories we don’t often hear; to stories that have so often been overwritten or silenced. And I’m seeing a lot more poetry and YA works from gender diverse folks who aren’t your typical ‘poster people’ for diversity – words and works from those assigned male at birth, from those with intersecting marginalisations, from folks of different class backgrounds, from folks who aren’t thin and white. For that reason, I think #ownvoices is moving the industry towards better inclusion: from people writing stories about us and for us, to us writing our own stories.
**Read the full interview on the Lip Mag website**
What will you be looking for when judging the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction?
Something new that takes me by surprise and shakes up my expectations of story writing, of character, of voice.
Entries for the 2020 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction are now OPEN and close 5pm Friday 17th April, 2020. Submit stories up to 2000 words that engage with the theme ‘future’. For more information, click here.
I have my very first poem in the wonderful Verity La! The piece, titled ‘ringtail, in memoriam’, explores decay and endings, beginnings and small acts of resistance.
… you are ground-sunk
hairs fanning back & sleeping
into leaf litter, the curves
of your bones exposed
sunlit & glowing.
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) ***
