Words
Writing Awards
- Inclusion Matters Fellowship, Centre for Stories (2020)
- Emerging Writer Development Program, Westerly (2021)
- To The Front Playwright Program, Static Drive and Blue Room Theatre (2021)
Publications
Forthcoming:
- Reflections as a Westerly Writing Development Program Fellow (2021)
- Feminist Writers Festival, interviews with Australian authors (2021)
- Feminist Writers Festival, reviews (2021)
- reviews TBA
- reviews, Fremantle Press (2021)
- reviews, University of Queensland Press (2021)
- Women and neoliberal economic development – Voices from the Darker Side of Development [non-fiction book] (2021)
- Revisiting the harm and consequence of development – Voices from the Darker Side of Development [non-fiction book] (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
- State Library of WA Writing Group, invited session host
- Breaking the Glass Slipper, 22 August 2020
- All performing writers and hosting staff volunteered. Thank you to to the generous hosting venue Centre for Stories. 100% of ticket sales went to the Kadjin Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth Arts Network.
- Through the Looking Glass, 20 June 2020
Electronic / Print:
- Live arts and culture events reviews, FRINGE WORLD, (2021)
- “Known”, Bent St, Volume 4.2, [poem] (print and digital, November, 2020)
- “Fiercely Independent”, Bent St, Volume 4.2, [poem] (print and digital, November, 2020)
- Secret Pockets – To Hold the Clouds [narrative non-fiction] [anthology of prose and poetry] (November, 2020)
- Visible Witness, Journal [narrative non-fiction] (digital, October 2020)
- V for Vulnerable – Westerly [non-fiction] (print and digital, July 2020)
- Feminist Writers Festival, interviews with Australian authors, (April – current, 2020)
- Feminist Writers Festival, reviews (February – current, 2020)
- WA Poets Inc Perth Poetry Festival – World Poetry Day [poem] (March, 2020)
- “The nail that sticks out gets hammered in” [review of “Growing up queer in Australia”. Edited by Benjamin Law] Singapore Review of Books (December 2019)
- “#CBD” – Bent St, Volume 3 [poem] (print and digital, November, 2019)
- Perth Culture [reviews of live events, art exhibitions, and performance arts]
- Emergent Arts, A Case for a Perth-based Asia-Pacific Arts Festival, 2014 [non-fiction contribution]
- Brillig, [prose] (print, Volume 1995)
- Brillig, [prose; poem] (print, Volume 1997)
- Content creation for clients and projects including: Feminist Writers Festival, 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Regional Arts Australia Summit, Regional Arts WA, Australian Theatre for Young People, Women’s Community Health Network WA, Leadership Western Australia, Department of Communities, City of Subiaco, United Nations for Sustainable Development Goals 2020, and others
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.
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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
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.