‘Milk Teeth’ won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Prize

On Thursday night I reached a milestone I’ve always wanted: winning the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize! This means I’ll have a published book ready for you to read in a year’s time, thanks to University of Queensland Press.

Here’s a photo of myself and 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize winner Shastra Deo. UQP will launch Shastra’s debut collection, The Agonist, today at Queensland Poetry Festival.

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ZICS this weekend!

Hi pals!

I’ll be at Zine and Indie Comic Symposium this weekend! I’ll have all my zines for sale, including my new one ‘Diary of a Lavender Plant’.

Plus, to accompany my succulent zines, I’ll have some newly propagated succulent babes for sale! You can grab them for 4 bucks each or $5 with ‘I Heart Succulents Volume 1’. There’s only a handful of them, so get in quick!

I’ll also be on two panels …
Saturday: Our Stories, Our Zines
Sunday: Zineside-Out: the Woolf Pack Panel at ZICS 2017

And of course I’ll be partying at ZICS ⅄┴ɹ∀Ԁ Boat!

See you all there 🙂 🙂

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oh hey, I wrote a piece of plant-inspired micro-fic for Story Seed Vault!

Alex Massey's avatarStory Seed Vault

Princess Philodendron glides up sunlit steps to the masquerade in hir dress awash with pink variegation, hir mask a cotton-candied shroud.

When you look through a garden, you may see the Philodendron erubescens ‘Pink Princess’ is a climbing perennial plant with pink variegated leaves. Botanist Simcha Lev-Yadun suggested that some patterns of leave variegation may be a part of a defensive ‘masquerade strategy’. Taking this concept and combining it with fairy tale fantasy, Rae White weaves an enchanting story.

//@wings_humming is a non-binary poet and writer from Brisbane. They’ve been published in @slinkchunkpress, @corditepoetry and others.//

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