Anne-Marie Te Whiu is Te Rarawa through her dad's line and pākehā (English/Irish) through her mother's line.  Born in Australia, she is a freelance poet, editor, cultural producer, facilitator and weaver whose central praxis focusses on artistic collaboration and platforming the determination and amplification of Indigenous and POC artists. She holds a Master of Social Change Leadership (AFSE 2025, University of Melbourne). Anne-Marie has directed, programmed and curated festivals and events for over 20 years, such as Zillmere Multicultural Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, Home Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival (Aotearoa & Pasifika program, Red Room Poetry - Poetry Month, Fair Trade and more, QTOPIA (Queer First Nations Languages exhibition) and Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts - Writers Program.

Anne-Marie has edited multiple poetry collections and journals including Woven (Magabala, 2024), More Than These Bones (Magabala, 2023) Whisper Songs (UQP, 2021), Solid Air: Australia & NZ Spoken Word (UQP, 2019)                                              Debris Journal: Issue 02 Hospitality (2022) and Cordite Journal: 116 Remember (2025).

Anne-Marie’s work has been published broadly on various platforms (anthologies, journals, magazines, exhibitions) across Australia and Aotearoa including SBS Voices,In*ter*is*land Collective, Open Book, Tupuranga Journal,‍  ‍Awa Wahine, un_Projects, Kaldor Public Art Projects, BLEED 2022 (Biennial Live Event in the Everyday Digital), Contemporary Hum, Another Australia, No Other Place to Stand, Rabbit Journal, Kill Your Darlings, Cordite Journal, Australian Poetry Journal and more.

She has been awarded several fellowships including the Australia Council Individual Projects Fellowship, Neilma Sidney Travel Fund, The Next Chapter Fellowship as well as The Next Chapter Alumni Fellowship.

Anne-Marie has been the recipient of multiple writers and artistic residencies including The Church Rawene Residency - Aotearoa NZ, Varuna Residential Fellowship, Bundanon Artist in Residence, Clothing Stores Artist Studio Carriageworks, Unyoked Writers Residency and a Running Dog Writer’s Residency. 

She was a director of the Blak & Bright board (2023-2025), Emerging Writers Festival (2024) and Running Dog Journal (2024) boards. She was a founding member of Taraheke Collective (2022). 

Anne-Marie’s debut poetry collection titled Mettle is published by University of Queensland Press.  Buy here. 

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ABC Interview - by Declan Fry 

‍              ‍Australian Book Review - by Philip Morrissey ‍                         

The Spinoff - interview with Claire Mabey

InDaily - Mettle Review

        Missing Perspectives - podcast with Soaliha Iqbal

Australian Book Review

 Arts Hub

  Books + PublishingThe Age

The Conversation

Meanjin

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       The Illawarra Flame

scenstr

QPF 2015 program

SLQ

Broadsheet

The Creative Issue

Peril

Gilimbaa

Overland

The Weekend Edition

BEMAC

In 2018, she was commissioned to program the Moving Words event  with QAGOMA and the Commonwealth Games.

In collaboration with Ariana Tikao she exhibited weavings as part of a collective exhibition at BlakDot Gallery in April 2022.‍  ‍

ABC RN Mornings

Poetry Says

Isolated Nation 

The Courier Mail