WHERE I'M AT
2022
Same Same but Different
Friday Night Gala - Queer Inspirations
Brisbane Writers' Festival
Queer AF in a Climate Crisis, Let's Imagine the End of the World, & Show Ponies <3
Queer AF
Am I The Drama? at Bedlam and Squalor
Featherston Booktown
Back at it as MC for Hear Me Roar and guest poet at Late Nite Lit
Lōemis Festival
New paintings and prints at Thistle Hall, June 13-19
Hot Wheels, Big Feels: Pride of the South poetry tour
Roadtrip with Jordan Hamel, Claudia Jardine and Liz Breslin to Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru and Dunedin
Auckland Writers' Festival
Streetside: Beresford and Anthologising the Anthologies
Word Christchurch
The Museum of Unruly Desires, the Stardust Cabaret, and No Other Place to Stand: Creativity and Climate Change
National Young Writers' Festival
MCing the opening and the hot new Show Ponies lineup, running a workshop on bittersweet love poetry, getting saucy on the panel for Dirty Talk, and chairing Climate Poetry Here & Now with some stellar young poets.
Nelson Arts Festival
Rebecca x Rebecca action for GLORIOUSLY QUEER
Verb Wellington
Launching Sweet Mammalian issue 9 <3 and discussing No Other Place To Stand at Fire Feeling, Flood Feeling
2021
Verb 2021
Surrealist Sisters - responding to Te Papa's surrealism show
LitCrawl Session 2 - introducing the newest issue of Sweet Mammalian, edited with Nikki-Lee Birdsey
LitCrawl Session 3 - Cheese Rolls for Southern Souls
Lōemis Festival
New paintings and prints at Thistle Hall, and a musical and poetic collaborative epic for Epilogue
The Dowse Art Museum
Candy Coated - Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy
Featherston Booktown
The Show Ponies taking over the Wairarapa!
2020
Verb Festival 2020
Show Ponies: The Return; LitCrawl appearances in all 3 phases, as a performer at Spells for 2020 and the Stasis Poetry Party and curator of Sweet Mammalian's Issue 7 launch
Welcome to Nowhere 2020
Guest poet and artist
Wairarapa Word
Ema Saiko Poetry Fellow; Poems on the Vine; Wairarapa Word Guest Poet
NZ Young Writers' Festival 2020
Robert Lord Young Writer in Residence; Fern fronds on fire climate poetry panel; opening night guest performer
Cordite poetry
Video for Jackson Nieuwland's book launch:
I am a Ghost
So many pandemic-cancelled things, alas! See you on the other side, Featherston Booktown and Auckland Writers' Festival. </3
2019
Awarded the 2019 Ema Saiko Poetry Fellowship
Residency to be undertaken in November 2020 (deferred due to pandemic)
Capital Mag
Poem review by Freya Daly Sadgrove
Pantograph Punch
Ten Moments in Aotearoa Literature 2019
NZ Poetry Shelf
Poetry shelf video: Perendale Princess
Poetry Shelf fascinations: AUP New Poets 5
Poetry Shelf fascinations: MIMICRY 5
Poetry Shelf Friday talk spot: Picking favourites on @radionz Bookmarks
Poetry Shelf review: Starling 8 Winter 2019
Poetry Shelf Feel the Love – poets pick 2019 poetry highlights
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: AUP New Poets 5 and Helen Rickerby’s How to Live launch
Poetry Shelf review: Landfall 237
Better Off Read
2018
Pantograph Punch
"Rebecca Hawkes’ poem ‘Softcore Bushwalk’ pulled me into an undergrowth of want"
The Spinoff
Honorable mention in The Spinoff Review of Books Awards for New Zealand Literature
New Zealand Poetry Shelf
Reading of my poem 'Sighting'.
Celebrating poetry 2018 in pictures and words
Radio New Zealand National
Pip Adam speaking with Jesse Mulligan
Tara Black Comics
Drawing from Starling reading at LitCrawl
2017
Radio New Zealand National
Hookworm (read by Frith Horan)
Better Off Read
Any machine can be a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough (read by Rebecca Hawkes)
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