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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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Rae White @raewhite.bsky.social · Oct 3
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.’
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Support Arachne Press by pledging to their crowdfunding campaign to publish ‘Up//Roar - Poems of Queer Resistance’ anthology:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/mnQq50Bn

@arachnepress.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
it's our 6th birthday. come sparkle with us? ✨

fifthwheelpress.com/effervescent
effervescent contributors Chaia Alford • Sadee Bee • Tarah Burrows • Zoe Carver • Eden Chicken • Sarah Chin • Tess Ezzy • Katherine Garrison • Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin • Elizabeth S. Gunn • Kath Healing • Jennifer Jantzen • Oliver Sedano Jones • Sawyer Katz • Sarah Klein • BEE LB • Aimee Lowenstern • Welton B. Marsland • Colby Meeks • Alexander Penney • • R L • powell • Anya Quesnel • Abigail Lilith Ravenheart • Kayla Renee • Lorraine Schein • Cade Smith • Elle J. Snyder • Joni K. Thomas • jp thorn • Erica Leslie Weidner • Rae White • Joely Williams • CB Wilson • Steven C. Wright
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
raewhite.bsky.social
I have a little poem in the latest issue of Fifth Wheel Press alongside all these incredible creatives 💖✨ fifthwheelpress.com/effervescent
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Thrilled to have a poem in Denizen’s Digest IV — Fathoms! Thank you heaps to Tim Sifontes-Holzberger for choosing my fierce little trans poem, and for curating these unsettling, saltwater stories 🦈🐋

Head to Netherworld if you want to grab a copy (it’ll also be available online sometime soon).
Photo of the latest issue of Denizens Digest - a zine with a black and white cover featuring a large grumpy fish. Beside the zine is a pin badge of a creepy zine caked in green slime, and a bottle of hot sauce called Red Scare.
November 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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kaiaballwrites.bsky.social
So honored!!! Thank you @enbylife.bsky.social for the nomination!!
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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enbylife.bsky.social
And congrats to Founding Editor, Rae White, who was a finalist for the Genrepunk Wildcard Award. @raewhite.bsky.social @genrepunkmag.bsky.social

genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/g...
Genrepunk Awards 2025
Winners Genrepunk Wildcard Award 2025 “Practice Test No. 1” by Court Ludwick, Quarterly West Genrepunk Award for Disabled Creatives 2025 “Sliding Scale” by Nicole Zelniker, …
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November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Congratulations to our finalists in this year’s Genrepunk Awards! @genrepunkmag.bsky.social

Kaia Ball - Genrepunk Editors’ Choice Award Finalist @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social

Lily Lalios - Genrepunk Haunting Award Finalist

More info at:
genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/g...
Genrepunk Awards 2025
Winners Genrepunk Wildcard Award 2025 “Practice Test No. 1” by Court Ludwick, Quarterly West Genrepunk Award for Disabled Creatives 2025 “Sliding Scale” by Nicole Zelniker, …
genrepunkmag.wordpress.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
raewhite.bsky.social
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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overlandjournal.bsky.social
“On any given day we could be spooning in bed
archival as ammonite”

Our latest #fridaypoem is SPIRALS EXIST IN NATURE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE by Rae White. overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...
Spirals exist in nature and have always been here - Overland literary journal
On any given day they could be trying to legislate / that you’re not a woman. / On any given day we could be spooning in bed / archival as ammonite / the cats mirrored as new fern’s Fibonacci beside us.
overland.org.au
October 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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I loved writing this poem about soft trans-queer resistance, the beauty of T4T love, and the everlasting nature of spirals and gender fuckery. I’m thrilled it’s found a home in Overland 🥰🏳️‍⚧️💖 @overlandjournal.bsky.social

overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...
Spirals exist in nature and have always been here - Overland literary journal
On any given day they could be trying to legislate / that you’re not a woman. / On any given day we could be spooning in bed / archival as ammonite / the cats mirrored as new fern’s Fibonacci beside u...
overland.org.au
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
raewhite.bsky.social
So 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
October 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
raewhite.bsky.social
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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hypercubexl.bsky.social
saw someone typo "trans masc" as "trans mas" and now I'm like,
the taco bell "live mas" logo with a trans makeover
September 17, 2023 at 5:24 AM
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bloomurder.bsky.social
😭💖 Thank you for the kind words, @raewhite.bsky.social !
raewhite.bsky.social Rae White @raewhite.bsky.social · Oct 10
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 6:32 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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strangedazemag.bsky.social
5 days to go! 🎉

Abigail Big-Wrestle
@bigjosh84.bsky.social
Hex
S.D. Dillon
Riley Fable
@thevgstoryteller
@raewhite.bsky.social
Terri Deno
Stephen Mead
Mikarla Teague
Pravasan Pillay
Sabrina Green
Amanda Hawk
O.P. Jha
Ella B. Winters
@gslakes.bsky.social

#litmag #onlinemag #writers #writer
Strange Daze 1. Introducing the contributors ... Abigail Big-Wrestle, Joshua Walker, Hex, S.D. Dillon, Riley Fable, Harry Fritsch, Rae White, Terri Deno, Stephen Mead, Mikarla Teague, Pravasan Pillay, Sabrina Green, Amanda Hawk, O.P. Jha, Ella B. Winters, GS Lakes
October 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
raewhite.bsky.social
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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enbylife.bsky.social
We’re nominating for awards this year, including the Monarch Queer Literary Awards! (For creative work we published between July 2024 and June 2025.)

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best!
Social media tile featuring the purple and pink butterfly logo for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards, on a purple background. Black bold text reads, ‘Monarch Queer Literary Awards. #EnbyLife Journal nominations 2025’ followed by names on a torn out piece of paper background. This text reads, ‘Ori Diskett, Finnley Greet, Bramwell Griffiths, Jules Kennedy, Lily Lalios, Lindsay Loughin, Welton B. Marsland, Lane Michael Stanley, Finn Stirling, Julia Sullivan, Quinn Wang.’
September 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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enbylife.bsky.social
‘Before college, “that” gender crisis lay forgotten
as I deliberately mislabelled it and isolated it.
Inside my suitcase, I would hide my gender —
it shrivelled up and suffocated.’

Read more of Maha’s poem 'My Gender Sat in Your Class' at enbylife.net
Photo of a darkened classroom with chairs and a whiteboard. A window with open blinds creates some light in the room. Black text on a transparent light yellow/beige background reads, ‘Before college, "that" gender crisis lay forgotten / as I deliberately mislabelled it and isolated it. / Inside my suitcase, I would hide my gender — / it shrivelled up and suffocated. 'My Gender Sat in Your Class' by Maha.’
September 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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enbylife.bsky.social
‘We went by the street of my childhood home
where I used to sit in the backyard and my mum
would make me flower crowns —
bracelets and necklaces of white clover blossoms’

Read more of Jack Cariad Leon’s stunning poem 'Why I Was Really Crying' at enbylife.net
A notebook page featuring a collage of various flowers, including a polaroid, stickers, and coloured sketches. Black text on a beige background reads, ‘We went by the street of my childhood home / where I used to sit in the backyard and my mum / would make me flower crowns — / bracelets and necklaces of white clover blossoms. 'Why I Was Really Crying' by Jack Cariad Leon’
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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enbylife.bsky.social
We’re nominating for awards this year, including the Genrepunk Awards! (For creative work we published between August 2024 – July 2025.) @genrepunkmag.bsky.social

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best!
Social media tile featuring the logo for Genrepunk, on a pink background. Black bold text reads, ‘Genrepunk Awards. #EnbyLife Journal nominations 2025’ followed by names on a torn out piece of paper background. This text reads, ‘Genrepunk Editors’ Choice Award: E, Kaia Ball, Lilly Lu. Genrepunk Award for Disabled Creatives: Ori Diskett. Social media tile featuring the logo for Genrepunk, on a pink background. Black bold text reads, ‘Genrepunk Awards. #EnbyLife Journal nominations 2025’ followed by names on a torn out piece of paper background. This text reads, ‘Genrepunk Wildcard Award: Ori Diskett. Genrepunk Haunting Award: Zoe Korte, Lily Lalios, Matthan Slith.
September 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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enbylife.bsky.social
We’re nominating for awards this year, including Best of the Net! (For creative works we published between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025). @sundresspub.bsky.social

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best! 🎉🌈
Social media tile featuring the logo for Best of the Net, on a light yellow-orange background. Black bold text reads, ‘Best of the Net. #EnbyLife Journal nominations 2025’, followed by names on a torn out piece of paper background. The names listed are: Oladosu Michael Emerald, Finnley Greet, Jules Kennedy, Lily Lalios, Anna Riley-Shepard, Elinor Serumgard, Matthan Slith, Lane Michael Stanley, Finn Stirling, Julia Sullivan, Sean West.
September 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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i had a truly magical experience last night showing @raewhite.bsky.social the motion picture “They Live” (1988) for the first time. is it perfect? no. is it perfect for *right now*? fuck yes!
September 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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🚨 10 hours left to get Queer Games Bundle 2025. We've just passed $87,000 for queer artists.

itch.io/b/3062/
pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 87 over a background of bisexual pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a ribbon shape creating a woven appearance, with rainbow and transgender pride flag colors and various textures.
September 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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28 hours left to get Queer Games Bundle 2025.

itch.io/b/3062/
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September 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM