About

Kaitlyn-PlyleyHello. My name is Kaitlyn Plyley and I’m a writer living in Brisbane, Australia. I am the creator and performer of the spoken word show Not Much To Tell You. I’m also the host of the Just A Spoonful podcast.

For 2015 I am writing a monthly blog series called The Other Movie Project, in which I review only movies that aren’t about white men.

My writing has appeared in these places:

  • Daily Life
  • VICE
  • The Suburban Review
  • The Lifted Brow
  • Four Thousand
  • Stilts
  • Junkee
  • WRIT Poetry Review

I perform poetry, stories and jokes. I’ve appeared at these events and places:

  • Women of the World Festival
  • Queensland Poetry Festival
  • Western Australian Poetry Festival
  • Brisbane Writers Festival
  • Brisbane Festival
  • Fringe World
  • Barefaced Stories
  • Yarn Storytelling
  • Anywhere Theatre Festival
  • Denmark Festival of Voice
  • The Blue Room Theatre
  • Metro Arts
  • National Young Writers Festival

And I appear in this anthology:

I have been a national finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam competition, representing Western Australia with a rap about bogan culture. I have also placed in the WA Poetry Slam and the WA Poetry Festival Slam (they’re different I promise).

I grew up in the lovely Perth but have since moved to the lovely Brisbane. If you would like to know about my accent then I have a comedy bit prepared for this occasion.

Through Perth’s Barefaced Stories and The Blue Room Theatre, I took master classes in storytelling from teachers from The Moth and Upright Citizens Brigade. Now, in Brisbane, I am the workshop facilitator for Yarn Storytelling.

I’m currently at work on my first book, a memoir about living with an invisible illness. My podcast Just A Spoonful explores life with disability – each episode I interview a young person who is living with a chronic medical condition. You can find the show on iTunes by clicking here. I am a presenter at Brisbane’s 4ZZZ 102.1fm, where I co-hosted their feminist show Megaherzzz for two years. Now I am mostly on Twitter when I should be writing. Tweet me your things: @kplyley