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Rae White is a non-binary transgender writer, educator and zine maker. Their poetry collection Milk Teeth (University of Queensland Press) won the 2017 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and commended in the 2018 Anne Elder Award.

Rae’s second poetry collection Exactly As I Am was published in 2022 by UQP. It was shortlisted for the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the 2023 Judith Wright Calanthe Award in the Queensland Literary Awards.

Rae’s Bitsy poem-game ‘stand up’ won the 2022 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Digital Innovation, was featured in the Pride at Play exhibition 2023, was awarded an Honourable Mention in the 2024 Freeplay Awards, and was shortlisted in the 2023 Naarm/Melbourne Queer Games Festival Awards. Rae has also been shortlisted in both the 2021 and 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards.

Rae is the Creative Director and Founder of community poetry initiative Uplift Poetry, and the Founding Editor of #EnbyLife, a journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives.

Can you hold on, or will you simply float away?

Dealing with rejection in the arts

A PDF zine about dealing with rejection

A tiny zine made for the Growth Zine Jam 2024

Welcome to your very first queer picnic!

Visual Novel

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A bitsy game-poem about being trans and being loved

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‘forage. found.’ is a Bitsy game about foraging, exploration, identity and euphoria.

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‘you are loved’ - resource pack

This is a pack of PDF and PNG files which you can use to print stickers and posters and flyers.

Games

Welcome to your very first queer picnic!

Visual Novel

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A bitsy game-poem about being trans and being loved

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‘forage. found.’ is a Bitsy game about foraging, exploration, identity and euphoria.

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An interactive Twine poem about trans ghosts and hauntings.

Visual Novel

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Architype Augmented

A guided digital poetry experience. Explore a decomposing house together and create strange architectural poetry.

A poetry game about exploration, collaboration, and making a home.

Ibis decides to go on a fun day out

Visual Novel

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fox skulls & wineeee

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Zines

Can you hold on, or will you simply float away?

Dealing with rejection in the arts

A PDF zine about dealing with rejection

A tiny zine made for the Growth Zine Jam 2024

No Horizons: a dystopian Animal Crossing poetry zine

A dystopian Animal Crossing poetry zine

Cats React to Trans Microaggressions

All colour zine, all cats, all hissing at transphobic crap.

A zine of collected stories, poetry, comics and art by non-binary and gender diverse people.

Moonlight for Monsters

A spooky, funny YA short story about a young trans kid and a drain monster.

The things I can control

A zine about focusing on the nice, happy, small things that are within my control.

Junk - Poems from my spam folder

This is a weird little zine / micro-chapbook of poems inspired by a spam email I received.

Rabbits & Relics

Rabbits & Relics is a zine about a small island in Japan, which houses both WWII relics and hundreds of rabbits.

I Heart Succulents - Volume 2

'I Heart Succulents - Volume 2' is a 16-page colour PDF zine full of tips and tricks on how to love succulents.

Diary of a Lavender Plant

PDF/digital zine of poetry from the point of view of a lavender plant!

Punks Wryly Against Your Keg

A digital/PDF autocorrect sexting zine, illustrated and written by hand, and scanned for your hilarity.