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Brandon Leake is the season 15 winner of America’s Got Talent, a 7x Telly Award Winner, 1x SOVAS Award Winner, and 1x Emmy Award Winner. Brandon has been a Poetic Performer, Keynote Speaker, and Workshop leader for over a decade, traveling locations such as: New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, and 42 States. Brandon has collaborated with companies such as Meta, CBS, California Hospital Association, Good Morning America, Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings, and many others. Brandon’s use of personal narrative with his gifting in poetic prose allows him to speak not merely to crowds, but to their inner being, to connect one soul to another, to connect people to an intrinsic sense of communal humanity that is at times severely lacking in our world. Brandon Leake is a visionary, whose words, but most importantly actions reflect his love of Christ, people, and the world.

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Megan J Riedl is a nationally recognised spoken word performer, collaborative theatre-maker, expert world-builder and master facilitator. Megan was awarded Queensland Poetry’s 2021 XYZ Innovation in Spoken Word Prize, and the Bob McKinnon Memorial Prize at Clunes Booktown Poetry Slam, 2025. Megan was an Australian Poetry Slam Victorian State Finalist for three years running, and a finalist for the 2019 Melbourne Spoken Word Prize. Megan’s poetry has been commissioned by Creative City Ballarat, CresFEST, the Ballarat Greens and Let’s Talk Peace, Ballarat and was one of two chosen artists for the inaugural Seedpod Ballarat residency program with Punctum Inc.

Megan has performed spoken word across the state, from Eureka Centre to Fed Square and exhibited work from the Immigration Museum to a vending machine at Geelong Library. She has writing, directing and producing credits with independent and community theatre companies across Victoria and is a regular dramaturg and facilitator for Melbourne Writer’s Theatre. An Arts Management graduate and alumni of Leadership Ballarat’s Leaders Program 2017, Megan was the Executive Assistant for Ballarat Arts Foundation for two years and has previously held board positions with Ballarat National Theatre, Ballarat Writers Inc and Spark Theatre. Before focusing on her creative practice, Megan worked as a creative health promotion facilitator, an administrator at a circus training institution, an actor’s agency receptionist, and a Secondary school teacher. Megan lives on stolen Wadawurrung land in Ballarat, VIC, Australia, with her two children, cat Mishka and dog Mook.

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Rae White is a non-binary transgender writer, educator and zine maker. Their poetry collection "Milk Teeth" won the 2017 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and their second poetry collection, "Exactly As I Am", was shortlisted for the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Awards and the 2023 Judith Wright Calanthe Award in the Queensland Literary Awards.

This year, they've branched out into the world of children's picture books with their debut title, "All the Colours of the Rainbow". Their poetry has been published in Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, Mianjin Quarterly, Overland, Rabbit, and many others. They're also the creative director and founder of the community poetry initiative Uplift Poetry and the founding editor of #EnbyLife, a journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives.

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