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Trans Book Festival 2026

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Trans Book Festival is happening on 17-19 April in Naarm (Melbourne)! Trans Book Festival is the only writers’ festival in the southern hemisphere focused on uplifting and celebrating trans and gender diverse (TGD) literary excellence in all narrative forms.

I’m thrilled to be part of two Trans Book Festival panels:

You can buy festival passes, as well tickets to TBF 2026 events, at transbookfestival.org.

Image featuring the TBF 2026 logo above a smiling Rae White and the text "Rae White they/them."
Image featuring the TBF 2026 logo above the text "Trans Poetics. Poetry is a form that lends itself to fluidity and challenging the confines of the page. Join the discussion to learn how these trans poets use their unique perspectives and experiences to both embrace and challenge the form, as well as explore an ideological desire to transform 09:30 - 10:30 Sunday 19 April. The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne. Tickets and info at: transbookfestival.org."
Image featuring Trans Book Festival 2026 logo above a photo collage of Rae White, Kaya Ortiz, Jazz Money, Hasib Hourani, and Ellen van Neerven and the text "Trans Poetics. 09:30 - 10:30 Sunday 19 April. The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne."
Image featuring the TBF 2026 logo above the text "Selling Out (Complimentary): a Literary Industry Panel. Want to share your words with the world? From editing and acquisitions to finding your audience, this panel offers insight into how trans writing is being shaped and championed today by trans industry insiders. 11:00 - 12:00 Sunday 19 April. The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne. Tickets and info at: transbookfestival.org."
Image featuring the Trans Book Festival 2026 logo above a photo collage of Rae White, Monte Weir, Savannah Hollis, Arlie Alizzi, and Michael Earp and the text "Selling Out (Complimentary): a Literary Industry Panel. 11:00 - 12:00 Sunday 19 April. The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne."

I also had the pleasure of chatting with Trans Book Festival Director, Eli Sutherland, on Tranzmission on 4ZZZ. You can listen back to the episode’s podcast (including my interview with poet Toby Fitch!)

Vocal Spectrum next week!

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I can’t believe Vocal Spectrum is next week! Get your tickets for Wed 5 Nov at Brisbane Powerhouse, part of Melt Festival. The Australian Vocal Ensemble will be performing a very special commissioned piece — Joseph Twist has set the words to my poem ‘Abundantly Blue’ to music!

‘Vocal Spectrum features new vocal chamber works by leading Queensland composers, each set to poetry by LGBTQIA+ poets from across the state, alongside striking new arrangements of beloved queer anthems.’

More info and tickets.

SEQ Queer Writers Festival & Fashioning Queer Identities Exhibition

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I’ll be hosting a zine workshop at the 2025 SEQ Queer Writers Festival this year, and also chatting on a poetry panel! My zine workshop will give participants an understanding of zines and zine culture, as well as the tools they need to start working on a small zine on a topic of their choice. 

2025 SEQ Queer Writers Festival
Saturday 15 November, 2025
9:30am – 4:30pm AEST
Coolum Civic Centre

I’m also honoured to have work in this exhibition! My piece WE ARE HERE combines fashion, protest, poetry and zines.

Fashioning Queer Identities
2025 Exhibition
Wednesday, 29th October 2025
5 pm-8 pm
Queensland Multicultural Centre

UNDERCURRENT is a bold multimedia project and exhibition celebrating the richness and diversity of LGBTQIA + expression. Bringing together art, fashion, performance, and costume, the project explores the many queer identities can be revealed, celebrated, or even concealed.

Developed through co-designed workshops, participants shared stories, reflected on life in Brisbane, and uncovered common themes that speak to personal journeys and collective experience. The result is a striking collection of individual and collaborative works that invite audiences to witness, reflect, and celebrate the power of queer creativity.

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Q-Lit Festival and new poem in Meanjin!

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I’m thrilled to be part of Q-Lit Festival’s Opening Gala on 20 June in Naarm (Melbourne).

More info and tickets for Q-Lit Festival.

About the Opening Gala

A gala of queer words, voices, and stories.

One magnificent night of the stories we tell, the songs we sing and our thoughts that are changing the world. Featuring a range of writers, performers and presenters, responding to the festival’s theme of
”What fills your cup?”

Hosted by Bebe Oliver.

Featuring Dean Arcuri, Tiger Salmon, Urvi Majumdar, Claire G. Coleman, Wallis Prophet, Noah Riseman, Lili Wilkinson, Rae White and Ed Moon

My poem ‘Hot Wheels’ is in the latest Meanjin! 

Shout out to Echoes from the Cave Inn, the most queer nourishing magical open mic, where this poem was first born.

Grab a copy on the Meanjin website.

An image of the Autumn 2025 issue of Meanjin (Vol 84, No 1). The cover mimics the interface of an iPhone Notes app in dark mode. It lists six bullet-pointed phrases: ‘The work of desire,’ ‘The work of identity,’ ‘The work of standing still,’ ‘The work of giving life,’ ‘The work of telling truth,’ and ‘The work of making a home.’ The design uses yellow and white text on a black background, with the Meanjin logo at the top in gold.

About Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025

Energy and life and the body. Disappointment and passion and pride. The inexorable labour of working toward the just. The work of desire, the work of identity, the work of standing still. The work of giving life, the work of telling truth, the work of making a home.

This season, Meanjin’s writers are calling us to account.

What are we gambling with when we settle for what’s merely adequate? What have we already sacrificed the moment we come to realise what’s at stake? What is the price of the just?

Embrace Australia’s finest writers. Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025.