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Rae White Rae White i(9518001 works by)
Gender: Non-binary
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BiographyHistory

Rae White is a non-binary poet, writer and zinester living in Brisbane. They’ve written for Slink Chunk Press and mous. magazine. Their poetry has been published in Cordite Poetry Review, Antithesis Journal, Gargouille, Woolf Pack and others. Rae’s manuscript ‘Milk Teeth’ recently won the 2017 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and will be published by University of Queensland Press in 2018. Rae is the editor of #EnbyLife, a collaborative zine about non-binary experiences. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Creative Writing Production) from Queensland University of Technology, and previously worked at 4ZZZ community radio as an on-air announcer.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Other works include :

    Poetry:

    • ‘the ghost in your air con’ (Woolf Pack #9: August 2017)
    • ‘Mother’s milk’ (Gargouille – Issue 6: May 2017)
    • ‘Sunday Stroll’ (Umbel & Panicle: April 2017)
    • ‘blizzards expected throughout the week’ (Woolf Pack #8 (PDF) – page 10: February 2017)
    • ‘Keyholes’ (Concrete Queers #6 (print): Nov 2016)
    • ‘Woman in Purple on canvas’ (mous. magazine #2 (print): Sept 2016)
    • ‘Her Wedding Ring’ (Woolf Pack #7 (PDF) – page 10: August 2016)
    • ‘Dysphoria’ (#EnbyLife: July 2016)
    • ‘Reaction(ary)’ (Bi-Focus: Coming Out: July 2016)
    • ‘Trashboy Meets They’ (Woolf Pack #6 (PDF) – page 14: Jan 2016)

    Short Stories/Fiction/Micro-Fiction:

    • Story Seed Vault: 36, Princess Philodendron (Story Seed Vault: July 2017)
    • ‘Local Legend’ (Slink Chunk Press: June 2017)

    Non-fiction/Articles:

    • Beyond Binary (mous. magazine #2 (print): Sept 2016)
    • Guild of Objects interview (mous. magazine: Feb 2016)
    • Archer Magazine: Interview with Amy Middleton (mous. magazine: Dec 2015)
    • Adult Store Etiquette (mous. magazine: Oct 2015)
    • Good Steps to Great Polyamory (mous. magazine: Sept 2015)

    Zines:

    • Diary of a Lavender Plant  (August 2017)
    • I Heart Succulents: Volume 2  (January 2017)
    • #EnbyLife   (July 2016)
    • Rabbits & Relics: Okunoshima   (June 2016)
    • I Heart Succulents: Volume 1   (May 2016)
    • Feminist Puzzle Zine  – (2016)

    (Supplied by author)

Personal Awards

Awards for Works

Stand Up 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Backslash Lit , Winter no. 6 2022;
2022 winner The Woollahra Digital Literary Award Digital Innovation
y separately published work icon Exactly As I Am St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2022 24423628 2022 selected work poetry

'A defiant, unflinching exploration of gender identity, gender discrimination and gender euphoria

'let me tell you how to lean gently on one another without rocking sideways.

'Rae White's much-anticipated second poetry collection, Exactly As I Am, speaks to their lived experience as a non-binary transgender person. Their defiant, unruly poems interrogate the spaces transgender people are both assigned and denied in society, through unflinching explorations of gender identity, gender discrimination and gender euphoria. These poems lean against you, hold out their hand and offer you- a connection, a community, a call to action.' (Publication summary)

2023 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Poetry
2023 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Judith Wright Calanthe Award
How to Haunt i "Who gets to haunt", 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging Online 2021;
2021 shortlisted The Woollahra Digital Literary Award Digital Innovation
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