Friday 1 August 2025
Doors open and poet sign-up 6:30pm for 7:00pm start.
Woodcroft Library
175 Bains Road, Morphett Vale, SA 5162
$15 for audience and competitors via TryBooking or at the door
Click here to book at TryBooking
This heat is proud to be part of WordFest Onkaparinga 2025.
Who will become our next Australian Poetry Slam Champion as audiences vote in events around the country? The prize? They tour Australasia sharing their creative thoughts and inspiring people everywhere to speak their own poetry.
Poets: share an original poem for two minutes on the mic.
Audience: listen, cheer, vote with scorecards in this national celebration of spoken word.
There is a maximum of 20 poets per heat, so make sure to get there on time! Poems must be two minutes or under, no props, no costumes, just you and the power of your words. Click here for the full rules.
Click here to bookClick here for dates and locations of other heats.
Please follow accepted hygiene measures including sanitising hands when entering the building and staying home if you are unwell.
By attending this event you consent for you, and any persons you are responsible for, being photographed and/or filmed and agree that the City of Onkaparinga and other organisations may use the resulting photographs and film for promotional purposes, including by publishing them in print and other media. Please see one of our event staff if you do not wish to be photographed or filmed.
Guest Performer: CHELSEA AVARD
Chelsea Avard lives on the unceded land of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. She co-edited the short fiction and poetry anthology The Body and holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide where she taught across English, Creative Writing and the Social Sciences, and now works as Manager of the Student Academic Skills team. Her poetry, memoir, fiction, and literary criticism has appeared in TEXT journal, Sleepers Almanac, anthologies by Wakefield Press, University of Philippines Press, and Midnight Sun, and online magazines including Verity La and Red Fez. Her poem ‘How We Stay’ won the 2017 Verandah Literary Award.
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