It’s here! 🎉💜
I’m so incredibly honoured to be a part of this volume – I wrote a little piece about the joy of multiple loves and polyamory.
Every copy of Dear Lover sold will contribute to cancer research at Love Your Sister. Thank you so much for including me Samuel Johnson!
Grab yourself a copy at Love Your Sister.
I have a brand new poem in Australian Poetry Journal 12.1 – ‘divergence, relevance’.
With huge thanks to Guest Editors Scott-Patrick Mitchell and Esther Ottaway for choosing my work and the work of so many other incredible poets in this issue.
‘Home (pixels) (praise)’ is a poem I wrote during an online workshop with the amazing Joelle Taylor through Red Room Poetry.
You can subscribe to Australian Poetry Journal or buy copies on their website.
A quick update re: my Patreon –
I’ve decided to go on hiatus from Patreon for a bit. The last couple of years have been tiring, and I want to take some time to navigate how Patreon can work for me and for my Patrons.
I’ll still be creating and writing, if you want to give me a follow on:
Etsy | Itch.io | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Thank you to all my Patrons for your incredible support over the years. It’s meant so much to me and to #EnbyLife Journal.
This Thursday 22 December, I’ll be heading to Avid Reader Bookshop for their 36 Hours Straight – All Night Shopping Extravaganza!
Join myself and other awesome local authors and illustrators at 8pm for in-store book signings, reading recommendations and raising money for The Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
More info on Facebook or the Avid Reader website.
So incredibly happy to announce ‘stand up’ has been awarded the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Digital Innovation!
You can explore ‘stand up’ on the Backslash Lit website.
A huge thank you to judge Brett Osmond for choosing ‘stand up’ as the winner. I’m honestly so blown away and delighted and grateful!
Thank you also to Woollahra Libraries, publisher Backslash Lit, and of course to Tegan Webb who helped me draft and redraft ‘stand up’ in Bitsy.
The trans experience is one that’s so often defined in media, by governments, as one simple / single / matter-of-fact / impersonal Medical Procedure.
‘stand up’ is an interactive poem which explores this idea, and the notion of what it really means to be trans. Because being trans isn’t just about one single thing.
Being trans is about breathing, loving and being; and, in ‘stand up’, it’s about finding small joys and knowing you are loved.
My Bitsy poem ‘stand up’ (published at Backslash Lit) has been shortlisted in the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards in the Digital Innovation category!!! 
Reader’s Choice voting closes Fri 18 Nov, if you want to send a vote my way 
Huge congrats to my fellow Digital Innovation shortlistees: Jenny Hedley, Dan Hogan and Anna Jacobson!
Such a pleasure to talk to Archer Magazine about my new poetry collection Exactly As I Am (UQP) 💖🌈
Head to the Archer website to have a read.
I feel so privileged to share my poetry in the recently released Nothing To Hide – Voices of Trans and Gender-Diverse Australia.
This incredible anthology showcases a wealth of creativity from within the trans and gender-diverse communities, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art and much more.
Nothing To Hide is edited by Sam Elkin, Alex Gallagher, Yves Rees and Bobuq Sayed, and published by Allen & Unwin.
You can grab your copy at all good book stores or your local library.
I have a new short story – ‘Not Gone, Just Different’ – up at Island Magazine online.
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‘Oh okay,’ I say, annoyed at the time I’ve just spent sewing two new masks for us. ‘But it’s not gone away, right?’
‘True, it’s not,’ she says, pulling my hand in the direction of home. ‘Not gone, just different.’
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Read the full story on the Island website.
I’m looking forward to reading at Red Room Poetry’s Queensland Poetry Salon at State Library of Queensland as part of #PoetryMonth, next Friday 19 August from 6pm.
I’ll be reading alongside amazing poets Lionel Fogarty, Samuel Wagan Watson, Huda the Goddess, Sachém Parkin-Owens, Hannah Macklin and emcee Angela Peita.
Rae White 