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As a performer, I’m mostly known as a spoken-word artist, having read my poetry at various arts and literary events. However, I’m often commissioned to host or to read nonfiction, whether in a serious or comedic fashion, as well.
More recently, I have begun performing ‘collisions’ of spoken word and dance, as part of a cross-disciplinary practice that aims to temper the rigidity of words with the fluidity of movement, communicating in a register that is both cognitive and embodied. |
‘Late Night Lit: Collisions’, EWF 2017
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2017
- ‘My Place in Melbourne’, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, August)
- Flat Exit book launch, Cordite Books & Aeso Studio (Melbourne, June)
- ‘Late Night Lit: Collisions’, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Melbourne, June)
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'Late Night Lit: Collisions', EWF 2017 (studio shoot of dance only; for live footage including poetry, click here)
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- ‘Literary Live Art: Performing Place’, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Footscray, June)
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'Literary Live Art: Performing Place', EWF 2017 (video by Cathy Tran)
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- The Hot Guy book launch, Echo Publishing & Astor Theatre (St Kilda, May)
- ‘Park Lounge’, Midsumma Festival & Wyndham City Council (Werribee, February)
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'Park Lounge', Midsumma 2017 (video by Chloe Brien)
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2016
- ‘Oppression Olympics: A Game Nobody Wins’, Right Now End-of-Year Celebration (Melbourne, December)
- ‘The Rag & Scribble Salon’, Small Press Network Independent Publishing Conference (Melbourne, November)
- ‘Poetically Pushing Against Dominant Narratives’, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October)
- ‘Debate: BFA vs NYWF’, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, September)
- ‘Queer Literary Salon’, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September)
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'Queer Literary Salon', MWF 2016 (video by Chloe Brien)
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- ‘Late Night Lit: I Want to Know What Love Is’, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Melbourne, June)
2015
- Poetry Readings at Fort Charles (Brunswick, October)
Poetry Readings at Fort Charles, 2015
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- ‘Critical Game Show’, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October)
- ‘30 Under 30’, All the Best, episode 1527 (July)
- Literati Parti (Brunswick, June)
Earlier
- ‘Epic Word-nerd Battledome’, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October 2014)
- ‘Stop! Grammar Time!’, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October 2013)
- Spoken Word, 3CR Radio (Collingwood, August 2012)
- Launch of Velour Poetry Zine (Northcote, October 2011)
- ‘Mash’, Overload Poetry Festival (Melbourne, August 2010)
- Narrator, Voiceworks Live (Melbourne, July 2010)
