Rae White
Rae White | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1985 (age 38–39) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Website | |
| raewhite | |
Rae White is a Brisbane-based poet and writer. White is non-binary and the founding editor of the online periodical #EnbyLife: Journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives. White's 2017 poetry collection Milk Teeth won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was commended in the 2018 Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Their poetry and writing has been published in the Australian Poetry Journal, Capricious, Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, and Rabbit.
White's poems have been described as "challeng[ing] notions of category, identity, form and gender"[1] and having an "ability to incorporate new techniques without alienating the reader".[2] They are also involved in poetry judging panels, including the 2019 and 2020 Anne Elder Award. They have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Production from QUT.
Published works
[edit]- Exactly As I Am published by UQP (2022)[3]
- 'Abundantly blue' in Australian poetry journal (2021)[4]
- 'wanna cyber??? ;))' in Antithesis Journal (2021)[5]
- Milk Teeth published by UQP (2018)[2]
- 'Glitter and Leaf Litter' in Capricious (2018)[6]
- 'apollo polination' in Meanjin Quarterly (2017)[7]
Awards and nominations
[edit]- Shortlist for the Poetry Award at the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Exactly As I Am[8]
- Shortlist for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection at the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards for Exactly As I Am[9]
- Shortlist in the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Standup (2022)[10] Published in Backslash Lit
- Digital Innovation Shortlist in the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for How to Haunt (2021)[11]
- Highest Queensland Entry in the Queensland Poetry Festival Awards for The last tourist (2020)[12]
- Shortlist in the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for who, what, why, where (2020)[13]
- Highest Queensland Entry in the XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word for Hussshhh (2019)[14]
- Second Place in the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction for The Body Remembers (2019)[15]
- Second Place in the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for what even r u? (2017)[16]
- Winner in the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for Milk Teeth (2017)[1]
Prize judging and editor
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Milk teeth". Trove Books, National Library of Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ a b "Milk Teeth, Rae White". University of Queensland Press. 2018. ISBN 9780702260162. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ White, Rae (2022). Exactly as I am. St Lucia, Queensland. ISBN 978-0-7022-6670-6. OCLC 1327956291.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "local, attention". Australian Poetry Journal. 11 (1). 2021. ISSN 2204-3632. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "Defy". Antithesis Journal. 31. 22 October 2021. ISBN 9780646848914.
- ^ "The Gender Diverse Pronouns Issue". Capricious Magazine (9). 2018. Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "apollo polination". Meanjin Quarterly. December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists". Books+Publishing. 2 August 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ^ "Past winners of the Woollahra Digital Literary Award". Woollahra Council. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ "Woollahra Digital Literary Award". Woollahra Council. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "Queensland Poetry Festival Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "Past winners of the Woollahra Digital Literary Award". Woollahra Council. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "The 2019 XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word winner: Fable Goldsmith and Rae White". Melbourne Spoken Word. 12 December 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "The Rachel Funari Prize For Fiction". lipmag. 3 January 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "Final results of the 2017 Judith Wright Poetry Prize". Overland. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "Announcing the 2020 Anne Elder Award Judging Panel". Australian Poetry. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "Our Staff". #EnbyLife. Retrieved 26 November 2021.