Doors open/poet sign-up at: 1.30pm
Slam starts at: 2.00pm
Poets break free from their notebook cages landing on a stage near you.
Australian Poetry Slam 2024 (APS ’24) invites you to cheer, snap, hold-up scorecards in this nation-wide celebration of spoken-wordsmiths.
APS ’24 is about unleashing your thoughts; launching mini-revolutions, like a chorus of kingfishers on a mission.
Writers let fly. Alight upon the mic for two minutes. Shout, call out, even softly warble your fresh lit.
Crowds will flock with cheers and hoots. Judges, chosen from the audience, will send two poetic messengers to represent Woollahra in the Sydney Final!
Poetry Slams and wordshops drop from July to October, converging on the National Final at Sydney Opera House on Oct 13th.
Are you the next APS Champion? Win a prize worth $20,000, including publication and gigs from Byron to Bali and beyond.
Poets must perform in their residing state or territory. Full APS ‘24 rules here: www.australianpoetryslam.com/rules
Don’t want to wing it? Drop into: Australian Poetry Slam Wordshop
Supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, Create NSW, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Byron Writers Festival and Singapore Writers Festival.
About the facilitator:
DEFNE is a queer Turkish-Australian multidisciplinary artist with a style that’s definitely hers and a creative career that fuses her infinite interests. She graduated with distinction in a Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing & Theatre) & Fine Arts (Photography & Graphic Design) from UNSW in 2023. DEFNE is the Creative Producer for Word Travels and Creative Director of West Side Poetry Slam, a hybrid event based in Parramatta. She has been published in UNSWeetend & Tharunka and featured across Story Week, ‘23 Adelaide Writers’ Week, Art Gallery NSW, UNSW, Enough Said, Bread & Butter Poetry Slam and Poetry Sydney. She’s performed her own show of poetry & song “DEFNE Opens Up” at Flight Path Theatre, Marrickville. DEFNE is always up to some creative mischief, whether writing songs or shooting shows. She’s a self-reclaimed drama queen. The world is her runway as she finds ways to overrun it with connection through shared vulnerability and revolutionary intimacy. @definitelydefne101