Red Room Poetry'Dragon Fruit' by Xiaole Zhan (詹小乐)
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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,…Xiaole Zhan (詹小乐) reads their poem ‘Dragon Fruit’ commissioned as part of the 2025 Red Room Poetry Fellowship.
Find out more and apply for the 2026 Red Room Poetry Fellowship here.
Xiaole is a Chinese-Aotearoa writer and composer based in Naarm. They are the 2024 Kat Muscat Fellow, and the winner of the 2023 Kill Your Darlings Non-Fiction Prize.
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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