Creative Writing with Rae White

Join QUT alum, writer and educator Rae White for a creative writing workshop analysing artworks by queer artists from the QUT Art Collection currently on display on Level 5 of QUT Library Gardens Point.

Utilising art as our prompt and the Collection as resource, we’ll explore the generative art of writing as a creative means to diversify responses to our Collection.

Be inspired by our Collection and take this unique opportunity to deepen your professional practice with Rae White.

Rae White is a queer non-binary transgender writer, and author of Milk Teeth (UQP 2018), Exactly As I Am (UQP 2022), and All the Colours of the Rainbow (Lothian Children’s Books 2025), with illustrations by Sha’an d’Anthes. They won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, and have been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Queensland Literary Awards, and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Rae is the Creative Director and Founder of Uplift Poetry, a community poetry initiative; Founding Editor of #EnbyLife, a journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives; and a co-host on the 4ZZZ radio show Tranzmission.

Image: Rae White. Photography: Chloë Callistemon.

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This project is part of Queer Readings of the QUT Art Collection, presented by QUT Galleries and Museums and QUT Library and supported by the Equity and Diversity Grant Scheme, and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Community Cohesion Grant Scheme.

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