DEFNE will help you migrate your thoughts to the page, become an eagled-eyed editor and take flight on stage.
Spread your words at the Woollahra Poetry Slam for your chance to win a prize worth $20k including publication and international touring.
Supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, Create NSW, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Byron Writers Festival and Singapore Writers Festival.
Learn more about the Australia Poetry slam at: https://www.australianpoetryslam.com/how-it-works
This workshop is open to adults and youth aged 12+.
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