Red Room Poetry‘Born to Fight’ by Kaitlen Wellington
Red Room Poetry
If a poem was a room you could walk into, whose voices might you hear? Red Room Poetry, Australia's leading organisation for commissioning, creating,…Kaitlen Wellington reads her poem ‘Born to Fight’ commissioned as part of the 2025 Red Room Poetry Fellowship.
Find out more and apply for the 2026 Red Room Poetry Fellowship here.
Kaitlen Wellington is a Yuin woman who is an emerging writer, with poems published in the Australian Poetry Journal and Guwayu-For All Times.
Applications for the 2026 Red Room Poetry Fellowship open 9am, Tuesday 2 December 2025 and close 5pm, Tuesday 3 February 2026 (AEDT).
The Red Room Poetry Fellowship is presented in partnership with Varuna - the National Writers House, and thanks to our generous program supporters Bret Walker AO SC, Tim Game SC and The Adès Family Foundation.
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