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Rae White
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(they/them) Non-binary trans & queer. Books with Lothian/Hachette & UQP. Agent @daniellebinks.bsky.social

Work: Uplift Poetry, @enbylife.bsky.social, @tranzmission.bsky.social, @australianpoetry.bsky.social

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Get your tickets to Vocal Spectrum Wed 5 Nov at Brisbane Powerhouse, part of Melt Festival. The Australian Vocal Ensemble will be performing a very special commissioned piece — @joetwistmusic.bsky.social has set the words to my poem ‘Abundantly Blue’ to music!!!

www.melt.org.au/events/vocal...
November 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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So honoured to have work in this exhibition! My piece WE ARE HERE combines fashion, protest, poetry and zines 👀

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Fashioning Queer Identities
2025 Exhibition

Wednesday, 29th October 2025,
5 pm-8 pm

Queensland Multicultural Centre
October 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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I’ll be hosting a zine workshop at the 2025 SEQ Queer Writers Festival this year on Saturday 15 November! 🥳🎉🌈

This 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.
October 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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So honoured to be in the very first issue of this mag alongside so many brilliant contributors. Huge congrats to Laura for all the work you’ve put into this beautiful project and into creating space for writers 🥰🥳 @bloomurder.bsky.social
Screen shot of the contents page of Strange Daze on a blue background.
October 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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I have a tiny new poem in @strangedazemag.bsky.social !!! 🦉👀

You can read the very first issue at strangedazemag.itch.io/strange-daze-1
Screen shot of the front cover of Strange Daze featuring a blurred glittery blue and purple background. Screen shot of the poem ‘an owl's fitful daytime dreams’ by Rae White. Text reads, ‘I think in fact I'm a vampire - / winged midnight cloaking my still heart - in threadbare embrace. with feathers like these how far can I fly? with beak like this how hard can I bite?’
October 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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My new poem ‘Is this devotion?’ has just been published in Island Magazine online! @islandmag.bsky.social

It’s about the blooming obsession of new queer love, the soft touch of petal fingertips, the all-consuming refrain of spring 🌸🌼💖🌈

islandmag.com/read/is-this...
Screenshot of the Island website featuring a photo of four pressed plants and flowers on a white background. Above this, dark text reads, ‘POETRY. Is this devotion? - by Rae White. ISLAND | ONLINE ONLY.’
October 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Head to raewhite.net/events for more info! 🥰🎉
UPCOMING: • Queer Zest Zine Fest 2025 • Make an Enby Zine at International NonBinary Day - 6 September at Jagera Hall • Stella Day Out - The Dreaming Body: Inheritance, Memory and Poetic Voice with Manisha Anjali and Shastra Deo in conversation with Rae White - 13 September 2025, 3.15pm at Avid Reader • Calanthe Collective poetry reading - 21 November 2025, 6pm at Zamia Theatre, Tamborine Mountain • Poetry of Flight (Liquid Amber Press) launch - 27 November 2025, 7.30pm AEDT online
September 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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So heckin honoured to have a poem in @eff-able.bsky.social: a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry, edited by JP Seabright and George Violet Parker 🥰🌈🌶️🔥

You can buy a copy of the anthology and find out more about the project at effable.uk
Photo of the front cover of ‘eff-able - a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry’, edited by JP Seabright & George Violet Parker. The cover image is a purple and red drenched photograph of a person arching their neck backwards, fingers at their collarbone. The anthology sits on a background featuring pink, white and black dripping paint. Photo of a poem from the anthology ‘eff-able.’ The poem by Rae White is titled ‘There's no cure, but kink helps’. The poem is dedicated ‘For Ori’. The first lines of the poem read, ‘Me: Part-time boi / full-time faggot. / You: Coquettishly / kissable with chap- / stick lips and upper lip face fuzz. / My spine's click / echoes the room / as I pounce on you. You giggle, I giggle.’ The open page sits on a background featuring pink, white and black dripping paint. Back cover of the anthology ‘eff-able’, sitting on a background featuring pink, white and black dripping paint. The text on the back cover reads, ‘Bringing together nearly 40 poets from across the globe, eff-able celebrates the sensual and sexual experiences of queer crip life. Covering kink, connection, taboos, and tenderness, these poems rejoice in the erotic empowerment of all bodies, unveiling intimate insights into a much-marginalised part of the LGBTQ+ community. With poetry that is bold, boundary-pushing, and more than a little revealing, eff-able provides a poetic glimpse into the sexy and sensual aspects of queer disabled life.’ A quote from Lucy Webster reads, ‘A delicious anthology that reasserts what we always knew: queer crips are hot as hell.’
June 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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My poem ‘Hot Wheels’ is in the latest @meanjin.bsky.social!

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

Grab a copy at: meanjin.com.au/edition/84-1...
A photo of an open page from Meanjin on a glittery grey background, featuring the poem ‘Hot Wheels’ by Rae White. The poem’s text reads: With love to the magic that is Echoes from the Cave Inn / Every time I'm sick / Mum buys me one (1) / Hot Wheels Car at the pharmacy. / They're lined up: shiny plastic-wrapped in front of the Butter Menthols. / Medicine dispensed and Boi Mode achieved: my always hidden agenda. / Every time I'm well / Dad buys me one (1) / Barbie at the Coles checkout. / They're lined up: shiny plastic-wrapped in front of the cereal aisle. / Shopping achieved and Girl / Mode on: my always mask. / At home in my room / I make two Hot Wheels / park beside one another. / I make two Barbie / Dolls kiss.’ A bio down the right hand side reads: ‘Rae White is a queer non-binary transgender writer living on unceded Jagera and Turrbal land. They are author of award-winning poetry collections Milk Teeth and Exactly As I Am. Rae's debut picture book All the Colours of the Rainbow, with illustrations by Shaan d'Anthes, was published in January.’ 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.
May 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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The Denizen’s Digest – a weird anthology by the Brisbane bizarre. The digest is a 60 page journey through locally created genre fiction, poetry, creative non-fic and more.

Curated by Netherworld denizens Tim Sifontes-Holzberger and Mitch Wilkins, the third-issue’s theme is ‘Expo 2088.’
Photo of the first stanzas of the poem ‘We’ll show the world’ featured in Denizen’s Digest. The text reads ‘WE'LL SHOW THE WORLD BY RAE WHITE. Self-drive dodgems cruise through Brissie's sunny sky. Marching band kangaroos levitate above rivers' glinting mock-blue surface. 1988's pink sub memorialised as pink mega-drone loop-the-looping over whooping crowds. Jacarandas luminous like stars their purple petals bred to mimic fireflies. Yellow-clad robot hostesses roam the teeming grounds, demeanour more cop than cooperative.’
April 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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My new poem ‘We’ll show the world’ is out now in Denizen’s Digest - Issue 3: Expo 2088!

Grab yourself a copy: www.netherworldarcade.com/product/deni...

As an Expo ‘88 enthusiast, I was super excited to have my poem chosen to be part of this excellent local zine.
Photo of a copy of Denizen’s Digest, with a black and white Expo cover, and a creepy zine pin, on a glittery background.
April 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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🌈✨ Join me for a special All the Colours of the Rainbow storytime & craft session at the Mad Hatter’s Bookshop! 📚🎨

📅 Thursday 17th April, 10:30am-12:00pm
📍 The Mad Hatters Bookshop, Manly, QLD

Reserve your spot here: madhattersbookshop.com.au/p/all-the-co...
A colourful promotional graphic for a children’s storytime and craft event featuring All the Colours of the Rainbow by Rae White. The background consists of hand-drawn rainbows in various colors. The main text, in bold purple font on a green rounded rectangle, reads: “ALL THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW - Storytime & Craft.” Below, a pink oval contains event details: “Thursday 17 April @ 10:30am at The Mad Hatters Bookshop.” A speech bubble with a paper plate rainbow craft illustration says: “Create a paper plate rainbow craft!” In the bottom right corner, a Polaroid-style photo features author Rae White, smiling, with pink hair, glasses, a choker necklace, and a bright shirt. In the bottom left, another Polaroid-style image shows an illustration from the book, depicting a character painting rainbows on a wall.
March 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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🌈✨ Join me for a special All the Colours of the Rainbow storytime & craft session at the Mad Hatter’s Bookshop! 📚🎨

📅 Thursday 17th April, 10:30am-12:00pm
📍 The Mad Hatters Bookshop, Manly, QLD

Reserve your spot here: madhattersbookshop.com.au/p/all-the-co...
A colourful promotional graphic for a children’s storytime and craft event featuring All the Colours of the Rainbow by Rae White. The background consists of hand-drawn rainbows in various colors. The main text, in bold purple font on a green rounded rectangle, reads: “ALL THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW - Storytime & Craft.” Below, a pink oval contains event details: “Thursday 17 April @ 10:30am at The Mad Hatters Bookshop.” A speech bubble with a paper plate rainbow craft illustration says: “Create a paper plate rainbow craft!” In the bottom right corner, a Polaroid-style photo features author Rae White, smiling, with pink hair, glasses, a choker necklace, and a bright shirt. In the bottom left, another Polaroid-style image shows an illustration from the book, depicting a character painting rainbows on a wall.
March 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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I had the pleasure of chatting with Lauren Deborah on My Dad Stole My Limelight about my recent picture book All The Colours Of The Rainbow, counteracting hate with intentional creativity, and the privilege of being out and proud.

Have a listen: open.substack.com/pub/hilauren...
Photo of Rae with short, vibrant pink hair and light skin smiling while wearing pink glasses and a black choker. They are dressed in a colorful, patterned shirt with shades of purple, blue, and pink. The headshot is framed within a bold, cartoonish border with orange, yellow, and green colours. In the bottom right corner, there is a small graphic with the text ‘my dad stole my limelight’ in playful, hand-drawn lettering, accompanied by an illustration of shoes and boots.
March 6, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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My Animal Crossing poem ‘Copycat’ is in the latest issue of Follow The Sea zine - #7 Side Quest!

Download a free copy here: followthesea.net/downloads
A digital poetry piece titled ‘Copycat’ by Rae White, dedicated to Blanca, features a pixelated pop-up window at the top with the title in bold, black, blocky font. The background is black with dark, semi-transparent triangles. The poem is in typewriter-style font, formatted in white text boxes with black text. The text reads, ‘Blanca for feminine, for white. Blank for face, all blanch and soft alabaster, bar the stubble of my voice. Blank for my braininess, branded foolish and suspicious like all Blancas before me. In dim lit hallway of fruit tree grove, you confuse me for family, for villager, for friend. When turned clockwise to face you, I'm nothing but the shocking white and haunt of canvas, of misplaced clouds, of nobody.’ In the lower right corner, an image of Blanca, a white cat character from Animal Crossing with no facial features, is partially visible facing away from the viewer. The second part of the poem continues in the same style, with white text boxes and typewriter-style font over a black background with dark triangles. The poem reads ‘special. So please create my newest face by solid moonlight: fashion my mouth with pencils, my eyes mascara, cheeks crayon, eyebrows and teeth with mud and bad words. If you don't draw my face, how can 1 look just like you? If you don't face me, how can you see me? So cover my features with yours as moon peaks and midnight drones loud in the vacant sky. Cover my face with your face. Conjure my gender into the light.’ The bottom right corner features a small pop-up window containing Rae White’s social media handle (@rae.elliot.white) and website (raewhite.net). Blanca appears again in the lower left.
March 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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I recently had the pleasure of chatting with RWR McDonald on the QWS Podcast (Words and Nerds) about All the Colours of the Rainbow!

Tune in for a heartfelt interview on identity, storytelling, and the power of seeing yourself in books:

danivee.com.au/qws-podcast-...
A promotional collage for QWS Podcast featuring Rae White. The top left section features a portrait of Rae, a smiling person with short pink hair, wearing pink glasses and a colorful button-up shirt with a jellyfish pattern, standing against a graffiti-covered wall. To the right, in large pink text, it reads ‘S4E1 Rae White’. Below the portrait, there are two smaller images: one on the left for ‘Queer Writes Sessions,’ part of the Words and Nerds Podcast. On the right, there is the cover of Rae White’s children’s book, ‘All the Colours of the Rainbow,’ illustrated by Sha’an d’Anthes, which depicts a child in colorful overalls painting smiling rainbows on a yellow wall.
February 18, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Join me for a celebration of All the Colours of the Rainbow, in-conversation with the wonderful Sophie Beer!

🌈 TOMORROW Wednesday 12th February 6pm
🌈 Where the Wild Things Are

📅 Grab your tickets - wherethewildthingsare.com.au/pages/11344-...
Promotional banner for the book launch of ‘All the Colours of the Rainbow’ by Rae White. The left side shows the book cover with illustrations of colorful rainbows and main character Jem painting them. On the right, there is text that reads ‘All the Colours of the Rainbow Book Launch with Rae White’ in yellow font on a purple background. Below the text, there is a circular photo of Rae White smiling, and the event location ‘Where the Wild Things Are, 191 Boundary Street, West End’ is displayed at the bottom.
February 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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So thrilled to have a new ekphrastic poem in Cordite’s ‘Space’ issue, with thanks to guest editor Alicia Sometimes.

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Screen shot of a poem with text that reads, ‘cowl of yellow necklaces flecked in summer's gold. there's negative space of me you'll never see - my feathers unfurling like mushroom's fanned underside. over shadowed hill of rotting moundtop, orange reddens today's busy sunset. i'm not actually a bird. call me: bald crown, garden demolisher, pitchfork feet. call me: focused not flightless. watch me: as trained eye blackens, revolves and hones to water-washed sky. there's something beyond the clouds do you see it?’ Photo of a sculpture of a multi-headed scrub turkey displayed in an art gallery. The sculpture is covered in black, feather-like textures with intricate mosaic type detailing, and yellow, red and black colouring.
February 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Join me for a celebration of All the Colours of the Rainbow, in-conversation with the wonderful Sophie Beer!

🌈 Wednesday 12th February 6pm
🌈 Where the Wild Things Are

📅 Grab your tickets - wherethewildthingsare.com.au/pages/11344-...
Promotional banner for the book launch of ‘All the Colours of the Rainbow’ by Rae White. The left side shows the book cover with illustrations of colorful rainbows and main character Jem painting them. On the right, there is text that reads ‘All the Colours of the Rainbow Book Launch with Rae White’ in yellow font on a purple background. Below the text, there is a circular photo of Rae White smiling, and the event location ‘Where the Wild Things Are, 191 Boundary Street, West End’ is displayed at the bottom.
January 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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🌈 Celebrate the release of All the Colours of the Rainbow with me! 🌈

🌈 Shelf Lovers
⏰ 1 Feb, 2pm
🌸 Including craft activities and treats
💞Aimed at families and little ones

🌈 BOOK YOUR TICKET - www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

(Events for a more adult-oriented audience coming soon!)
Social media graphic for author event at Shelf Lovers featuring Rae White and their book All the Colours of the Rainbow. The flyer includes a photo of Rae White with pink hair and glasses, smiling against a colorful background. Below the photo is the book cover, which features a child painting smiling rainbows. The event is scheduled for Saturday, 1 February at 2 PM, and includes reading and signing, craft activities, treats, and balloons.
January 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Join me at The Last Word, a curated poetry showcase by Blue Bottle Journal and The Braddyton, on Sat 18 January from 3PM at Can You Keep A Secret in Woolloongabba, with readings from Maddy Dale, Svetlana Sterlin, Shastra Deo and myself.

More info and tickets: events.humanitix.com/the-last-wor...
Event promotion tile for 'The Last Word.' The title is displayed in bold, pink-and-blue bubble letters at the top. Below are photos of four poets: Shastra Deo, Maddy Dale, Rae White, and Svetlana Sterlin. Text at the bottom of the image reads: 'An Afternoon of Curated Poetry by Blue Bottle x The Braddyton.' Event details are highlighted on the right: 'Can You Keep A Secret, 18 Jan, 3–5 PM.'
January 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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I’m a video/virtual panelist at Trans Book Festival on 8 February, held at the Wheeler Centre! I’ll be reading my poetry from Nothing To Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia.

Grab your tickets at: events.humanitix.com/trans-book-f...
Event promotion tile for the Trans Book Festival featuring Rae White. Rae, with short pink hair and glasses, is wearing a colourful shirt with a jellyfish pattern and a black choker, standing against a vibrant graffiti wall. Event details are displayed on blue boxes: Trans Book Festival, The Wheeler Centre, Naarm, 8 Feb 2025. The background features a split pastel design in yellow and pink.
January 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Rabbit are waiting to hear back about vital funding. If you haven’t already please consider subscribing to Rabbit and/or buying some of their brilliant poetry collections.

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Photo of a white page with text that reads: ‘So, I am wondering about how poetry might—if not evoke direct action-actually ignite the passion for action. Poetry as part of the resistance ecology. Rabbit itself stands on the precipice of extinction as we await vital funding news from government support. With institutional support largely dried up due to ongoing post-COVID cut-backs, we will at the very least revise our publications plan going forward. Of course, many Australian literary journals are similarly feeling the pinch. But I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our section and guest editors over the years. For this issue, I would particularly like to thank the guest poetry editors-Elena Gomez and aj carruthers—for their thoughtful selection and curation of 'extinction' poems, and for their dedication to the poetics of resistance. I also thank Jeanine Leane for curating a First Nations section from the 'Us Mob' writing group. I offer the deepest thanks to Tracy O'Shaughnessy for her indefatigable work as Rabbit's publications manager—we would not have survived this long without you. And finally, thank you to all our readers, our subscribers, our supporters, for meeting these pages with much enthusiasm and excitement. We hope to continue hopping in the near future.’
December 19, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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Thrilled to have a new poem ‘welcome to all this’ in Rabbit Poetry Journal #40 Extinction. Much love and appreciation for editors Jessica L. Wilkinson, Elena Gomez and aj carruthers.

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Photo of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry, Issue 40 titled ‘Extinction,’ placed on a green and cream floral-patterned fabric. The cover of the journal has a dark maroon border, with the central artwork depicting a textured, moss-covered koala with a baby on its back, with smoke rising from its body. Photo of a white page with text that reads: ‘Rae White - welcome to all this.’ Photo of a white page with text of a poem that reads: ‘welcome swallows skim rooftop lap pool for chlorine-garnished mosquitos / I am workaday coffee grind guardian gnome / white herons watch wait cast angular shadows over bootleg fishing nets / I am city smoke burnout guerrilla gardener / currawong calls reverberate off stark robot high-rises as dusk draws near / I am unceasing howling wheat-paste protester / I watch the symmetrical sky-dance of beak-heavy pelicans reflected on river's mirror / I refuse to say goodbye to all this’
December 19, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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Thrilled to have a new poem ‘welcome to all this’ in Rabbit Poetry Journal #40 Extinction. Much love and appreciation for editors Jessica L. Wilkinson, Elena Gomez and aj carruthers.

rabbitpoetry.com/shop
Photo of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry, Issue 40 titled ‘Extinction,’ placed on a green and cream floral-patterned fabric. The cover of the journal has a dark maroon border, with the central artwork depicting a textured, moss-covered koala with a baby on its back, with smoke rising from its body. Photo of a white page with text that reads: ‘Rae White - welcome to all this.’ Photo of a white page with text of a poem that reads: ‘welcome swallows skim rooftop lap pool for chlorine-garnished mosquitos / I am workaday coffee grind guardian gnome / white herons watch wait cast angular shadows over bootleg fishing nets / I am city smoke burnout guerrilla gardener / currawong calls reverberate off stark robot high-rises as dusk draws near / I am unceasing howling wheat-paste protester / I watch the symmetrical sky-dance of beak-heavy pelicans reflected on river's mirror / I refuse to say goodbye to all this’
December 19, 2024 at 4:50 AM