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 had the pleasure of talking with David Ades for the WestWords Poet’s Corner podcast.
We chatted on the theme of “Unruly poems (ones that defy convention through structure, language, and themes)” and explored gender acceptance, discrimination, and identity, among many other things. A wonderful chat!
Have a listen here on YouTube.
Last night at the launch of Exactly As I Am, I asked the audience to help me write a new poem Mad Libs style and it was the most hilarious, wonderful, heartfelt time!
The result is this poem about queerness, community and birds, which I’m so proud to be launching today on International Non-Binary People’s Day.
Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize anthology. Edited by Toby Fitch.
Featuring three poems by me including ‘what even r u?’ 
And poems by fellow amazing poets: Evelyn Araluen, Chris Armstrong, Georgina M Bailey, Ross Belton, Lachlan Brown, Julie Chevalier, Thomas Denton, Julie Durrant, Joel Ephraims, Luke Fischer, Lou Garcia-Dolnik, Myles Gough, Kia Alice Groom, Fiona Hile, Dan Hogan, Duncan Bruce Hose, Holly Isemonger, Julie Jedda Janson, Patrick Jones, Sam Langer, Frances Libeau, Astrid Lorange, Roberta Lowing, K A Nelson, S.J Norman, Ella O’Keefe, Melody Paloma, Harry Reid, Aden Rolfe, Omar Sakr, Sara M Saleh, Brooke Scobie, Joel Scott, Andrew Watts, Mitchell Welch, Alison Whittaker, Tim Wright, Grace Yee and Jakob Ziguras.
‘Our schooners will be slick
with beer’s condensation.
We’ll use our empties
to catch rainfall.’
Read my latest poem ‘Catch rainfall’, published in swim meet lit mag Issue 2 – Dive.
I wrote it during an online workshop with Eileen Myles, as I watched flood water rise behind my house.
Big thanks to swim meet lit mag and Svetlana Sterlin for publishing this piece 🙂
My second poetry collection ‘Exactly As I Am’ (University of Queensland Press) is about my lived experience as a non-binary transgender person and it’s launching on 13 July at Avid Reader Bookshop, both in-store and online!
Grab your ticket on the Avid Reader website.
ALSO COVER REVEAL!!! Look at how pretty my beautiful queer-trans new book is!
Preorder available on the UQP website.
I feel so privileged to be announcing this on Transgender Day of Visibility, a day when I can be visible and ‘out’ but I know so many cannot. I see you. You are part of our community and you are loved. 
This year I’ll be part of Brisbane Writers Festival for their 60th anniversary program from May 3-8!
I’ll be speaking at events with wonderful folks: Nevo Zisin, Yves Rees, essa may ranapiri, Shastra Deo, Raelee Lancaster, Jazz Money, Peter Sipeli, Pascalle Burton, Sarah Holland-Batt + Ella Jeffery. Join us for #BWF60!
Check out my BWF author page and events.
Play my new bitsy game-poem ‘stand up’ in Backslash Lit!
‘Being trans is about breathing, loving and being; and, in this story, it’s about finding small joys and knowing you are loved.’
Backslash Lit Issue 6: ZIP / FREEZE / BUNDLE
The Queensland Poetry Festival #QPF2022 program has launched! I’ll be part of some awesome events, including The Self, Emerging and Celebrating 20 years of the Thomas Shapcott Prize, as well as hopping about the place doing QP socials and being a social butterfly. Come say hi!
Check out the program and grab your tickets on the shiny new QPF website.
New poem! ‘Gender marker’ (from my forthcoming collection ‘Exactly As I Am’ – UQP) has been published in Rabbit 34 – Reportage.
Rae White 