Join poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell to discuss their recent Fellowship at the National Library, which has focused on laying research groundwork for a new poetry collection titled RISE RALLY REST.

Scott-Patrick Mitchell is the 2025 Creative Arts Fellow in Australian Writing, supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust.

During their Fellowship, Mitchell has delved into some of the Library’s queer archives and begun work on the poetry collection RISE RALLY REST. This collection explores the roles celebration (RISE), activism (RALLY) and aging into queerness and suburbia (REST) play in the LGBTIQA+ community. This collection honours the past while inspiring the future.