Words

a Portfolio and Blog

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Recent Posts

Writing Awards

  • Emerging Writer Development Program, Westerly (2021)
  • To The Front Playwright Program, Static Drive and Blue Room Theatre (2021)
  • Inclusion Matters Fellowship, Centre for Stories (2019-2020)

Publications

Forthcoming:

  • “The Urge to be Violent” –  Westerly (66.1, 2021) 
  • “Yours or other”, Bent St, Volume 5.2, [poem] (print and digital, 2021)
  • “Not a girl to be picked on”, Bent St, Volume 5.2, [poem] (print and digital, 2021)
  • “Things left unsaid”, Bent St, Volume 5.2, [poem] (print and digital, 2021)
  • “A vociferous invitation to exist” – Portside Review (May, 2021)
  • Reflections as a Westerly Writing Development Program Fellow (2021)
  • reviews, Fremantle Press (2021)
  • reviews, University of Queensland Press (2021)
  • “Women and neoliberal economic development” – Voices from the Darker Side of Development [academic] (2021)
  • “Revisiting the harm and consequence of development” – Voices from the Darker Side of Development [academic] (2021)

Appearances

Upcoming

  • Backstories, 13 March 2021
    • A one-day multi-sited storytelling festival
    • Venue TBC
  • Keynote panel – LGBTQ+ and Literacy, 11 June 2021
    • Rainbow Community House fundraiser

 

Past

Electronic / Print:

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Creating in the age of a global pandemic

As many of you are probably increasingly aware and facing in a personal way, our global community is continuing to rapidly evolve in response to the ongoing and dynamic challenges represented by COVID-19. Many of my typical avenues for paid work have greatly diminished or are high-risk for me, as someone living with chronic illness and disability.

If you find any of my creations, be they words, artforms, or podcasts, to be meaningful, valuable, or in some way helpful, please consider making a donation.

Please also consider sharing my articles, posts, and podcasts (with attribution) because spreading the word is also a great way to support my work. Thank you for visiting and thank you for your time.

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Commissioning Content

Do you need a speech or presentation prepared on your behalf? Do you need it to be compelling, yet evidence-based? Do you want it to be thoughtful and inclusive?

Do you need writing developed for your website or marketing materials? Do you need people to engage with your mission and cause? Do you want to build a sense of community and drive? Do you want people to understand and feel passionate about what your organisation or project is trying to do?

Adele specialises in not-for-profit organisational development, community engagement, team facilitation for diversity, and human rights oriented work.

Podcast to be launched SOON

Explore the journeys of Wonder Women from around Australia sharing their reflections on their core values and exercising vulnerability. Gain insights while you join us in challenging the definitions of success, and celebrate what it means to be a woman.

Major Works In Progress

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I am currently researching and developing two major non-fiction works:

  • A collection of women’s stories, exploring their defining moments, challenging the definition of success, and celebrating the ways in which they have and continue to leave a mark on those around them. Women (including trans and femmes), GNC, NB, iand intersex people continue to hold up half the sky but their stories do not fill half our shelves or half the pages we read. Excerpts from interviews and conversations will be featured in the podcast.
  • A challenge of the paradigm we utilise to respond to (and seek to prevent and reduce) family, domestic, and gendered violence in Australia and the ways in which it fails to appropriately encompass cultural safety and intersectional risks, needs, and experiences of First Nations’ and Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, LGBTIQA+ people, people with disability and people whose experiences are moderated by remoteness/rurality/visa status. 

I am developing a collection of short stories inspired by fairy-tale and mythology to explore dark themes and the edges of our potential for different ways forward. 

My poetry plays with form, imagery, and lyricism to explore and challenge definitions, identity, and existence. 

My visual art practice incorporates the underlying philosophy of wabisabi and melding of traditional and contemporary methods, recognising that we all straddle multiple ways and worlds, not just those of us consigned to the obvious membership of cultural diaspora. I challenge the idea that cracks, fragility, visibility of broken history are synonymous with lesser beauty or value. Much like trauma, mistakes and difficult experiences, these form our valuable and idiosyncratic stories and inform our present and future potential.