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Don’t give up your day job: why poetry has bad PR (and why you read more of it than you think)

When I signed my publishing contract with Fremantle Press last year, my partner immediately started joking about resigning from work – to wave celebratory pompoms at my book events and writers’ fests, soothe my perpetually poetically-furrowed brow, and make sure my favourite brand of poetry-inspiring beverage is always close to hand.

And another thing: South Australia, I protest

As of this month, South Australia now has the country’s most severe penalties for those engaging in peaceful protests.

My latest ‘and another thing’ vlog protests SA’s shameful new anti-protest laws.

Public. Open. Space. launches

Fremantle Press sent my debut poetry collection, Public. Open. Space. out into the world (eep!) in July 2023.

A new home for The RITP

The RITP team is thrilled to share the exciting news that the second edition of The Relationship is the Project officially has a new home with our friends at NewSouth Publishing.

And another thing: artists leaving arts practice

Welcome to ‘and another thing’, my brand new series on things that interest or infuriate me – exclusively for my amazing Patreon followers.

This one starts with a recent ArtsHub article on Theatre Network Australia’s report that says 51% of independent artists are currently considering a career change.

Public. Open. Space. pre-orders now open

With ONE MONTH TO GO until Fremantle Press releases my debut poetry collection into the world, you can now pre-order your copy of Public. Open. Space.

And another thing: designing our governance model from scratch

What would the conversation look like if we were designing our current not-for-profit governance model from scratch?

Tears for peers: the hidden costs of arts funding

Across Australia, hundreds of arts organisations are currently awaiting the outcome of expressions of interest for four-year funding from Australia Council for the Arts. In Warrang/Sydney meeting-rooms, teams of subcontracted industry advisors are being assembled in their respective artforms to advise Council on which applications are eligible to go through to second and final stage of their decision-making process.

Introducing Public. Open. Space.

My debut poetry collection (Public. Open. Space, Fremantle Press, 2023) is just a few months away from being launched into the world. Here’s a sneak peak about what to expect…

Using a pseudonym

As I shared with ArtsHub last month, I began using a pseudonym (Katie Keys) because of nepotism, not wanting London’s street press to realise the music reviews I was writing were often of my brother’s band. I kept it when I started posting a poem a day on social media (which I did for more than a decade), so my Twitter handle @TinyLittlePoems became a sort of secondary pseudonym too.