Rae White is a queer non-binary transgender writer, and author of poetry collections Milk Teeth (UQP 2018) and Exactly As I Am (UQP 2022). Rae was awarded the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize in 2017, and has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Queensland Literary Awards, and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Their debut picture book All the Colours of the Rainbow (Lothian Children’s Books/Hachette), with illustrations by Sha’an d’Anthes, was published in January 2025. Rae is the Creative Director and Founder of Uplift Poetry, a community poetry initiative; and the Founding Editor of #EnbyLife, a journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives.
STILL POINT was launched by David Terelinck at the Zamia Theatre on Tamborine Mountain on 24 August 2025.
Beth Clapton lives in Sydney, which she acknowledges is on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. She has an abiding love of words and a fascination with how memory and geography intersect, often encountering her earlier self on street corners and riverbanks where she enjoys taking a moment to reflect. Beth has spent several joyous years discovering her poetic voice and was delighted to be runner up in the Calanthe Collective Prize for Unpublished Poetry in 2023, and the winner in 2024.
Beth’s poetry is imbued with still points, moments that, in her own words, “give you time to hear yourself, to choose your response.” Beth brings a deeper emotional awareness to those moments that can “signal change, the onset of a new adventure, the closing of a chapter, or simply breathing room in the maelstrom of modern life.”
